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Handy bITs Blog: Visit our blog, Handy bITs, your source of I.T. tips and tricks for home and business. Why? Because this blog will help you to discover, keep up with and read about computer-related stuff that could make life easier for you in your home and business. Sometimes, you'll read about stuff that's just plain cool. Let us do the hard work of regularly scouring the internet for the odd gem that's useful (and maybe even fun) for you. Remember, check out Handy bITs for your fix of I.T. tips & tricks for your home and business! If you want to get your Handy bITs updates via email, go to our Subscription Page. We promise not to give your email address to anyone (see our Privacy Policy), and you're free to unsubscribe (and re-subscribe!) at any time. Note to our loyal readers: The blog mostly supersedes the Funai Ezine but we're leaving the links to the ezine articles here (below) as an archive. Besides, we plan to produce the odd article in ezine format when that format is a better fit. E-zines: Ezine Article (April & May '06) – April-May'06 Digest: Ransomware, Firefox, Fuel Tips, B.S. Generator Welcome to a “double-issue” of the ezine. It's true, the April issue didn't come out. Time was tight. Schedules slipped. My fault entirely. To make up for it, I've packed April into the May issue. So, to our new subscribers in April: no, we didn't forget about you, and welcome! And to everyone else, my apologies for missing the April issue! Contents
Download now (281KB, PDF), or view online. Ezine Article (Mar '06) – Big Emails Getting You Down? Try this Tip! Tired of sending and/or receiving email attachments that are just too big? Have any of these ever happened to you?
Read on for the solution! Download now (100KB, PDF), or view online. Ezine Article (Feb '06) – How to Stop Spamming Your Friends & Family with Photos How do you share your digital photos easily with your friends and loved ones (without becoming a pain-in-the-neck "spammer")? Use an online photo album! Read on to find out how. Download now (164KB, PDF), or view online.
Ezine Article (Dec '05) – Running out of time?
It's almost Christmas! The silly season. End-of-year
processing. Hectic times. If you're anything like me, you sometimes leave things till the last
minute, especially at this time of year. In that case, read on for tips on how to get through
this annual crisis: the panic of last-minute gift-buying, card-sending, and remembering family,
relatives and friends. Read on to find out how. Download now (88KB, PDF), or view online.
Ezine Article (Nov '05) – Tired of Email Pinball?
Recently, I went on a weekend cruise. It was great fun. Very relaxing. What wasn't too relaxing was the lead-up to it,
including the number of emails that clogged my email inbox about the plans for the cruise... As the launch date got closer, it seemed that everyone had something to add and say and was
emailing CC: everyone else. It all worked out in the end, of course, but wouldn't it have been nicer if all those bits of information were
handily available at just one place and were guaranteed to be up-to-date? Read on to find out how. Download now (98KB, PDF), or view online.Ezine Article (Oct '05) – How to Lock Up Your Documents
The computer guys are coming to fix your PC but you'd rather they couldn't look at your
private files.
Ezine Article (Aug '05) – Learn to Swim with Passwords
Are you drowning in passwords? They seem to be a necessary evil. Passwords take many forms.
There's the password for your phone BPAY account. There's your ATM PIN, your work building
keypad combo, bike chain lock, briefcase lock, online-banking password, email password, PC logon
password... the list goes on and on. Ezine Article (May '05) – When Things Go Wrong, You'd Better have a Plan B (and B is for Backups)
”Al, you have to save my life. I've accidentally
deleted a Client List!” It was Saturday morning. Michael
rang me begging for help. He had to get his trashed Client List back
and it wasn't in his Recycle Bin.
Ezine Article (Mar '05) – How to Decoy SPAM Away from your Email address.
Spam. Junk email. We all get bombarded, some more than others. Spam makes us waste our precious time cleaning out our inboxes. Apart from
the annoyance of having to read yet another email enticing us to grow
body parts, lose weight, or get instant doctorates, there's also the
fear that some of this spam might be somehow infecting our machines
with some computer virus.
Ezine Article (Oct '04) – Want to create PDF documents for FREE? Here's how. When you save documents in your particular office suite's format, that format might not be recognisable by the office suite of the person to whom you're sending your document. Even users of the most widely-used office suite, Microsoft Office, have compatibility problems between versions of the same application. If all you want is to allow your readers to read (not edit) your documents, regardless of what type of computer they're using or what software they're running, there's an elegant and free solution. Download now (239KB, PDF). Ezine Article (Mar '04)– Upgrading Your PC? How Not to Over-Spend You've had your old faithful PC for years. Sure it's almost ten years old. Sure it's running an operating system that hasn't been officially supported for half a decade. But for your business, damn it, it works! Still, you think, maybe it's time to upgrade. You deserve it, right? And you can't help it: you're starting to feel sorry for yourself. So you decide to get a new computer. But what should you get? Download now (77KB, PDF). The online version is available here. Guide to FREE Personal Software (Feb '04)– Security Basics: As a Home User, there are certain basics that you should be covering to help keep your Windows PC secure. They include anti-virus, firewalls, adware and spyware protection. What they are, and where you can get FREE versions for these, you can learn about by downloading our free guide. Download now (95KB, PDF) Interested? Go to the Subscription Page. See how else you can improve your IT system with our Services. |
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