This tip will be so unnecessary for many of you that I almost hesitate to write it. I am always amazed, though, at how freely some people give out their email addresses, and the email addresses of others. My wife knows that this is a pet peeve of mine. When I see an item show up in my inbox due to her submission of my email address on a site, my blood pressure boils. And I’ve seen her and others register on all sorts of sites using their main email address. Many sites have privacy policies in which they assure you that your address will not be sold or used, but plenty of sites have opt-out provisions buried in hard to find places. There are a few easy ways to protect your address, and the addresses of your family and friends.
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Category: Tips (page 7 of 7)
I suppose that the recommended way to drive traffic to a blog would be to write posts that appeal to the greatest number of your readers. Every now and then, though, I find a solution to a problem that drives me so crazy that I will want to write about it, even if it only helps a few people. If it saves them the aggravation that it caused me, it is worth it. To highlight that a post won’t appeal to everyone, I’ll call these posts "niche tips." The first niche tip for this blog covers a problem I ran into integrating Disqus with a self-hosted WordPress site.
If you’re using someone else’s computer and an application that you need or want isn’t available, you are in luck if you have a portable version of the application on your flash drive. SanDisk is a flash drive manufacturer that installs its own proprietary software launcher, U3, on flash drives. Some portable applications are designed specifically for U3, and are simple to install. But what if you have a SanDisk USB flash drive with U3 installed, and want to use other portable applications aside from those specifically designed for U3? One option would be to uninstall U3 from the drive and then install the PortableApps.com Platform. Some folks despise U3 and this is the first step they take when getting a new flash drive. But what if you want to keep U3, but also install apps from a place like portableapps.com? Here is how I installed non-U3 apps on my SanDisk flash drive, including how I placed a shortcut for each application in the launcher.