Most people see SEO, or Search Engine optimization, as a way to get search traffic. They use it in order to attain better internet visibility, and to bring traffic to their site. That’s the whole concept of it right? SEO can be link building, on page SEO, content writing, traffic driving and many other things. These things are separate entities, but are also part of a whole SEO trend and marketing plan for a healthy site. The term or phrase SEO can be used to [...]

To the average computer user, the file on their disc is a single entity. Its just a.. thing.. you open it, you close it, you work on it and you save it and thats it. its very much like a paperback book. No frills and nothing to worry about. Whoops.. guess what.. That file is rather like a paperback book, but not for the reasons that you think. It has individual pages and the computer has to keep them all tied together to make it [...]

There are virtually millions of graphics and photos on the internet that are beautiful beyond compare. Go to any travel or nature site and you’re going to find photos of your favorite animals, places or places you’ve never been. It’s easy to use one of those photos as your Desktop background, which is the image that shows up on your computer before you have opened any windows or used any programs. The background, in other words. While you are out web surfing, if you see [...]

In all honesty, not too many people care about that, but its a great question. Most folks are just glad it DOES work, and they have no real interest in the wherefores and why’s. The internet has become more and more popular the past few years, and its nearly impossible to view television, listen to the radio or read a book that doesn’t have a reference to some web site or another on the internet. Since its become such a huge part of todays society, [...]

An OS, is an abbreviation for Operating System. The operating system is the software that lets you communicate with the computers “brain”. Your operating system is the host, if you like, for your visit to the computer. It permits the different kinds of software to run on the computer and handles all the day to day details of the hardware that is part of your computer. Nearly every computer, from the huge super computer to the video game system has some kind of operating system. [...]

For many of you, the reason that you got your computer was communication. Not just with the internet but through email to family and friends who live further away than you care to send photos and other media. To do that you need to attach a file to your email. With digital photos or scanners able to be put on your computer so easily, it becomes easier to send them through email, where they arrive at their destination in an instant rather than in several [...]

Everyone who has used a computer has seen or heard the term Defrag. We’ve all seen it happen on our own computer if we use the task scheduler,  but for the most part, no one knows exactly what it is, or exactly why we do it. Your computer has a lot of files residing side by side, or in contigious areas. From opening and shutting, deleting and downloading, the files can be out of order. This is called filed fragmentation and it can slow the [...]

Senior citizens today, particularly those who are 65 or more, have survived a LOT of changes. The space race, the cold war,  the popularization of  the television, a couple of recessions, maybe part of a depression, Elvis, rock and roll, and O.J. Simpsons trial. If you can handle all that, you can certainly deal with a little computer… Increasingly I’m finding that people over the age of sixty, sometimes even over the age of seventy, are not only trying computers, but becoming prolific at them, [...]

You’ve got your brand new computer and arranged your email address. You’re all ready to set that up and start communicating with the outside world. One small problem! When you click the magic link. It tells you that Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft  Outlook Express is not yet configured for your email. Well what that heck? You mean you have to do this yourself? Well yes, thats why its called do it yourself computing. You need to configure your email  Windows email client. Click the start [...]

The Online world is a fairly slippery entity to explain to anyone who is stepping into it for the first few times. Granted its a cool new thing to explore but for those who are older, or even younger people who aren’t overly into the culture, its like speaking another language. Very clearly, the internet is it’s own world.For the most part, as you’re going to find out, we’ve even got our own language. While the graphical, user friendly, self navigating style of today’s internet [...]

You’ve heard it a thousand times and if you continue to buy computers and to use them, you’re going to hear it a thousand more. “Why would you buy one of those things. In a year it will be obsolete” So, is your computer going to be obsolete in a year? The answer is a definitive.. WHO KNOWS? Obsolete is such a relative term. If what you really want to know is, after a year, will your computer be less than state of the art.. [...]

Quite frankly, it never made much sense to me to add something like, How to Set Up Your Computer, on a web page, since its fairly obvious that if you’re reading the page your computer is pretty much set up already or you wouldn’t be here. Common sense pretty much tells you what goes where when you try to connect your computer. Its rather like trying to insert square pegs into round holes, because most things are made for just one insertion point, or only [...]