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Add Captions to a YouTube Video
I’m taking an online CSS course at SitePoint, and the instructions include some YouTube video tutorials. Yesterday’s video included captions, and so I did some poking around, to see how they were added. To add the captions, you need a … Continue reading
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Grading Your Website
It’s the end of the school year — the perfect time to grade your website. Today I tried the free analysis tool, Website Grader, to see how well Contextures would do. It’s easy to do — just fill in the … Continue reading
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You Have to Sleep Eventually
When you’re self-employed, you can set your own hours, and sometimes those hours can run into the wee hours of the morning. After staring at the computer screen all day and most of the night, your eyes might be tired, … Continue reading
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A Fresh New WordPress 3.0 Look
Emboldened by yesterday’s success in installing the WordPress 3.0 upgrade, I decided to install their new default theme — Twenty Ten. It’s optimized for all the new WordPress 3.0 features, so it will give me a chance to try some … Continue reading
Testing the WordPress 3.0 Upgrade
An advantage to having multiple blogs is that you can test things on a smaller blog, before installing them on your main blog. For example, WordPress 3.0 was released today, so I decided to test it on this blog first. … Continue reading
Problems Deleting an Outlook Folder
I’ve had some strange problems with Outlook for the past couple of weeks complains about things not being closed properly usually crashes the first time I try to print a message crashed when I tried to select a couple of … Continue reading
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Taking an Online JavaScript Course
Learn JavaScript for $9.95! That sounded like a pretty good deal to me, since most online courses an much more expensive than that. When I got the JavaScript Live Course email from SitePoint.com, I followed the link to see what … Continue reading
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Printing a Web Page
You might find something online that you want to print, such as instructions for doing something in Excel, or a tasty looking recipe. Usually that page has a bunch of stuff that you don’t want to print, like ads and … Continue reading
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The Spreadsheet Day Poll
When should we celebrate Spreadsheet Day? A few dates have been nominated, so it’s time to pick a day, and Jimmy Peña suggested a poll. The nominated dates are: Jan 26 – Ed, based on Lotus 1-2-3 release date Feb … Continue reading
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Excel Readers Around the World
On the Google Analytics dashboard there’s a world map, that shows where my Excel blog readers are located. Not surprisingly, most are in the USA, and the rest are concentrated in a swath of English-speaking countries, from Canada to New … Continue reading
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