Monthly Archives: February 2009

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Preventing Duplicate Content in Search Engines With WordPress

Published on: February 27, 2009 in Blogging and has 4 Comments

I was recently looking at Google’s Webmaster Tools, and more specifically the robots.txt section. As I reviewed the robots.txt for my blog, I thought about whether I can make it better. For those who aren’t familiar with the file, it provides information to web robots about what files/directories they shouldn’t access. Search engines use web [...]

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iTunes Issue: Windows Keeps Configuring iTunes When Starting

Published on: February 25, 2009 in Software and has 52 Comments

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I have recently been experiencing problems with Vista, which is no surprise there. My wife likes to use iTunes, and uses it on a daily basis for listening to music and renting movies. Recently, however, she has been experiencing problems with iTunes. She has been unable to launch the application because Windows Installer opens up and states that Windows is configuring iTunes. After prompting for a reboot, which was granted, she would start iTunes again and was faced with the same message. It was an endless cycle that wouldn’t allow her to access iTunes.

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How to Reset the Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Router

Published on: February 20, 2009 in Networking, Networks, Security and has 14 Comments

Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Router

There may be times where you hare having trouble with your WRT54GL router, which may require you to reset the Linksys WRT54GL wireless-G router. There are two methods of performing such an action, so which method you choose is up to you.

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Finding Your Blogger Blog’s Sitemap

Published on: February 18, 2009 in Blogger, Blogging and has 120 Comments

Adding a sitemap to Google’s Webmaster tools is one of the first tips you will be told to do when you first manage a web site or blog. It is an easy process to do, and you can get many benefits from it, such as monitoring how Google is indexing your pages, the external and [...]

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Removing Broken Links in Your WordPress Blog

Published on: February 13, 2009 in Blogging, Wordpress and has 13 Comments

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Removing broken links from your Wordpress blog is important, not only from a SEO perspective, but also from a usability standpoint. There are probably many tools and web sites available to you that will help you find broken links in your blog posts. While these do the job nicely, I was looking for an easier way to perform such a task. By easier, I mean from within my Wordpress dashboard.

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Managing Your WordPress Database

Published on: February 11, 2009 in Blogging, Wordpress and has 10 Comments

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Since switching to WordPress in August 2007, I have been looking at the many plugins that can be installed to enhance the functionality of Technically Easy. There are plugins that affect the look and feel of a blog, others that help to increase the speed, and still others that add functionality. As I looked through [...]

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Securing the Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Router

Published on: February 6, 2009 in Networking, Networks, Security and has 68 Comments

Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Router

Two of the most popular posts on Technically Easy has to do with securing the Linksys WRT54G and D-Link DI-524 wireless routers. With many people using wireless routers at home, it becomes more important to secure the connection to the router form a computer. When I turn on my laptop at home, I can see [...]

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How to Create a PDF for Free

Published on: February 4, 2009 in Software and has 21 Comments

Create a PDF for Free

When I visit web sites I notice many of them are offering e-books. These are usually books in a PDF format that can be downloaded and viewed with a reader. The most popular reader is Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. The once nice thing about PDF documents, and probably the reason they were chosen for e-books, is that the document will look the same regardless of the reader’s computer. Other formats, such as Microsoft Word, may look different depending on whether the reader has the same fonts installed.

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