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Yearly Archives: 2008

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Free Software that can Replace Your Expensive Software

December 19, 2008 | 17 Comments

There are many great software packages on the market that can help you do pretty much anything you need with a computer. The problem is that the software can cost anywhere from $100 to over $1000 dollars, depending on the software. While the software you purchase will do what you need, many people don’t realize [...]

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Router Settings to Secure a Wireless Network

December 17, 2008 | 4 Comments

Two of the most popular posts on Technically Easy has to do with securing two different wireless routers: the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G router and the D-link DI-524 Wireless router. At this time I only have those two guides available on securing wireless routers. For those with other wireless routers, I decided to outline some of [...]

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Scanning Old Photos? Get VueScan

December 12, 2008 | 9 Comments
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I have been archiving some of the old photos, negatives, and slides that are lying around my house. As with most people, many are located in unlabelled boxes that are not organized in any way. Besides being unorganized, the other issue is that there are no safe copies of the originals, so if I was [...]

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How to Share a Printer in Windows XP

December 10, 2008 | No Comments

I recently wrote a post that outlined how to connect to a network printer. The post, however, didn’t talk about how to setup a network printer at home so that any computer connected to your network can use the printer. In this post I will explain the steps involved to setup a network printer so [...]

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What Firefox Add-ons Do You Use?

December 5, 2008 | 19 Comments

I don’t write many posts about Firefox, mainly because there are many posts written on other blogs that do. In my post titled Examples of Colour Management I provide examples of how colour management affects the displaying of images. For those examples I used the Firefox web browser. Also within that post I talked about [...]

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Examples of Colour Management

December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

I have previously talked about colour management in the past, and those who are serious about digital photography will need to know about colour management. While it can get technical, colour management is simply the process of ensuring an image is display/printed properly from one device to another. It can be difficult to explain, but [...]

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How to Add a Google Sitemap for Blogger Blogs

November 26, 2008 | 24 Comments

I have seen many questions regarding adding a Sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools for a Blogger blog. Many people don’t know that you already have a Sitemap-ready file created for you by Blogger, and that all you need to do is use that one in Webmaster Tools. In this post I will look at adding [...]

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How to Connect to a Network Printer in Windows XP

November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments
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For most home users it is very easy to connect to a printer. Older printers are usually connected to the parallel port, while the new printers are connected to the USB port. Once the printer is connected and drivers loaded you can easily select the printer from the list and begin printing. For those on [...]

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