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  • How a non geek turned her computer skills into an amazing new career!

    Rosalind Gardner was a non geek, who decided to use her computer to embark on a new career, turning her into the internationally famous travel writer and super-affiliate that she is today.

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Outlook 2003 Running More than Once & Not Shutting Down Properly.

By ForNonGeeks on Friday, February 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Many of us still use Microsoft Outlook 2003 as our standard Email application or client. It works pretty smoothly and does a great job, but I started finding that it was occasionally crashing and generally not behaving in the rock-steady manner I had become used to.

After opening the Task Manager (see other posts) I spotted the problem. Outlook was running in more than one instance! This should not happen and is bound to cause problems and strange behavior. I tried closing Outlook down, but it was still showing as running in the Task Manager!

I closed down the running instances by highlighting them in the Task Manager and shutting them down one by one.

OutlookRunningTaskManager Outlook 2003 Running More than Once & Not Shutting Down Properly.

Did it work? For the moment yes, but as the next time I ran Outlook, I looked back in the Task manager, and there was another instance of it running again!

OK, so here’s the fix!

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How to shorten URLs for your Twitter posts

By ForNonGeeks on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Twitter is an amazing tool. We’ve already discussed why you should be using Twitter in an earlier article. There are a couple of challenges that you’ll encounter as you become a more avid tweeter. One of the most important ones to overcome is that you need to keep your posts to 140 characters at most. This is not as simple as it sounds especially when you are doing something like sharing a link to another site. URLs are not short and you’ll find them taking up a significant number of precious characters.

twitter long url needs shortening How to shorten URLs for your Twitter posts

As you can see from the image above, this can become a serious problem. Fortunately there is a very simple solution to this problem. All you have to do is to utilize one of the URL shortening services that are freely available on the Web. There are many to choose from, but the one I recommend is bit.ly which has several other features once you create a free account including the ability to view click statistics over time.

So lets head on over to http://bit.ly and create an account. Once you’ve done that, log in to your account and paste in the long URL you want to share. This site is also useful for sharing links in other forms as well, for example link sharing in your e-mails and blogs. It’s especially useful for Twitter though because of the above-mentioned character count limitations.

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Why you should be using Twitter

By ForNonGeeks on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Unless you haven’t turned on a computer for the past year, or you simply don’t visit any sites other than AOL, you will no doubt be familiar with Twitter. It’s been the center of all the buzz around the web for a while now and people are throwing out all sorts of terms such as “Micro blogging”. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about and what Twitter can do for you, keep reading.

twitter logo 300x110 Why you should be using Twitter

The concept is simple: you get a maximum of 140 characters to get your message across. You can post as many messages (called tweets in Twitter lingo) as you want and people can read your tweets and even “follow” you on Twitter so they get all of your tweets conveniently displayed for them. The point is to get the message across in a short and simple manner. Efficient and unobtrusive.

Tweets can be grouped into lists so that you can aggregate messages of a similar nature into groups. Tweets and profiles can be viewed directly on the Twitter website, but you can also use one of any number of applications (installed on your computer or mobile device) to enjoy the Twitter experience.

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Why the iPhone will change your life

By ForNonGeeks on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 | No Comments

There’s an ongoing debate between iPhone users and Blackberry users (Android and other smartphones are jumping on board too) about which mobile device is the best. I am not here to try and convince you one way or the other; I am simply typing this blog post on my iPhone to let you know that if you do end up buying an iPhone, it will be one of the smartest moves you ever make in your life. Simply put, the iPhone is the coolest and most practical device I have ever used in my life.

iphone.jpg 168x300 Why the iPhone will change your life

No matter what your needs are, the iPhone will satisfy them. It will also do so very, very well.

Let’s start with the basic necessities: phone: check, good speakerphone: check, email: check, browsing: check. Great, we’ve got all the basics covered, and to be honest with you each of them will exceed your expectations. The speakerphone is crisp, the email is excellent and supports Microsoft Exchange server e-mail and the version of Safari the phone comes with is very good (you can also install other browsers as well such as the brilliant “Perfect Browser” app).

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Computer Slow? Are Your Applications Using Too Much Memory?

By ForNonGeeks on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | No Comments

The amount of memory, or RAM, that your computer has available, is arguably the single most important factor in determining how efficiently and quickly your programs load and run.  So the more memory-intensive programs you have running simultaneously, the slower and less responsive your computer is going to be!

How can you determine which programs are hogging this precious memory and bogging you down, often causing a slow and unresponsive system? Some are chugging away in the background without you even knowing about it!

Windows has a very useful little application called the “Task Manager”, which pops up a little window on demand, showing you just this! Here’s how you can use it to your advantage.

Right click on an empty area in the task bar at the bottom of your screen and select Task Manager from the menu that pops up:

TaskBarClick Computer Slow? Are Your Applications Using Too Much Memory?

The Task Manager will open.

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