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How To Open URLs in Terminal in Mac OS X Leopard

February 11, 2011

In old pre-2007 versions of Mac OS X, you could cmd-click on links in Terminal (say, in [irssi]), and they’d open in a web browser. It was nice time saver.
In Mac OS X Leopard this has changed — it’s now cmd-shift click.  Or, Just right-click (or control-click, or two-finger click) and choose the first option [...]

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How To Get Traffic With Expired URLs

April 11, 2010

It’s tough to get traffic to your website, especially when your website is new.  Here’s a trick to help -
Buy an expired URL with Google PageRank, and lots of incoming links.  Once you have the URL, permanently redirect the new URL to your existing website.  That way, when anyone clicks on a link for the [...]

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How To Create QR Codes With Google’s URL Shortener

April 11, 2010

You can now create QR codes using Goo.gl,  Google’s very own URL shortener.   Just add “.qr” to the end of any shortened Goo.gl URL, and Google will automatically create a QR code.
The Google URL shortener is currently available through Feedburner, the Google Toolbar, and a few Google Chrome extensions.  If you visit the [...]

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How to Get Free Business Email With Your URL

March 12, 2010

Google has all kinds of free tools to help your small business productivity.  Free email on the URL you own is another example.
You can get up 50 business email accounts each with 7 gb of storage on your URL (example; sales@yourURL.com is an example email account).  Google Apps Standard Edition is the full name of [...]

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How To Fix Internet Explorer Web Browser When Only Https URLs Shown

March 2, 2010

It’s pretty weird, but sometimes Internet Explorer web browser will only work for Https URLs.  It may be that your anti virus software expired or you downloaded a file that caused some havoc with your computer.
Try these steps to get your Internet Explorer fixed so you can see both Http and Https URLs.
1.  Make sure [...]

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How To Add Image URL To Blog

February 19, 2010

WordPress Blogs look great with lots of images.  However, sometimes getting the images to fit just right is tough.
We’re here to help.  Some basic HTML tags will help you easily resize images once they’re uploaded on your web site.
Tip one.  Don’t try to use images that have too high a resolution.  50-150 KB or 150-600 [...]

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How To View URL History

February 6, 2010

You forgot to bookmark that really cool website’s URL, didn’ t you.  We’ll, you can view url history of your browser to find it.
How To View URL History In Firefox:

Click on History button
Choose “Show all history” or CTRL+SHIFT+H

Bingo, your URL history will show up.
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How To See URL Address

February 6, 2010

You want to see the URL address of a link or picture.  No problem.  Just follow these three steps.
How To See URL Address:

Hover your mouse over the link or picture
Right click your mouse
Go to properties

The address shown is the URL address of the link or picture.  Easy – now aren’t you glad you did that [...]

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How To Set URL Icon or Favicon for Website or WordPress Blog

February 6, 2010

You want a cool little picture to show up in the browser tab window for your website or WordPress blog, right?
Well, this “little picture” or “icon” is formally called a favicon.
How To Set URL Icon:

Pick an image or icon that you’d like to use as your website’s favicon.  Remember the favicon is only 16px by [...]

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How To Add A URL To A Picture

February 5, 2010

You’ve got a picture on your website, and you want to add a URL to the picture to make it “clickable”, right?
You can add a url to a picture with a little bit of HTML code using the imp and href tags.  Follow these instructions.
How To Add A URL To A Picture:
Lets use this sample [...]

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