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  • Essential Ingredients of Effective Social Media Marketing

    Essential Ingredients of Effective Social Media Marketing

    The veterans in the field of blogging have fixated on social media marketing as an amazing tool. However, the tool is only as good as the technique that drives it. Effective social media marketing requires some major elements.

    In absence of these elements, any effort towards the process of blog promoting via social media sites will give incomplete results. So what are these essential ingredients that can boost your social media marketing performance?

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  • My Data Backup Solution to Keep My Data Safe

    My Data Backup Solution to Keep My Data Safe

    A few months ago I noticed that Mozy was changing their pricing structure so I needed to develop a new data backup solution. Mozy’s new pricing structure made it unaffordable for me to use them for regular data backup solution, so I had to change how I backup my data.

    After I had won a license of Handy Backup from Michael Aulia from Craving Tech I decided that it would be a good solution for my data backup dilemma. After thinking about me new data backup solution, I decided to begin to put the solution in place.

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  • How Does a Laser Printer Work

    How Does a Laser Printer Work

    If you have worked in an office in the last decade or so then you have probably used a laser printer, you may even have a laser printer in your house. Laser printers are great pieces of printer technology, the quality they can print is just as good as most other printers when it comes to monochrome documents (black and white) and the best thing is the amount of prints they can do before the toner runs out, making them generally more economical than a inkjet printer.

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  • Fix: Word Cannot Open this Document Template

    Fix: Word Cannot Open this Document Template

    There may be times when you start Microsoft Word you encounter the error: “Word cannot open this document template template name. I have encountered other Word errors in the past, and while this error may not happen all too often, but when it does a similar problem can also produce other error messages when Word is started. The issue has to do with the compatibility of an add-in with Microsoft Word, and the steps below outline how to solve the problem.

    Word Cannot Open this Document Template During Word Startup

    As I mentioned above, the error is caused because an add-in is not compatible with Microsoft Word. To help find the troublesome add-in use the following steps:

    Temporary Remove the Microsoft Word Add-ins

    1. Close all Microsoft Office applications that are currently running.
    2. Open the “Startup” folder for your version of Microsoft Office. The table below shows the location of the folder.
    3. Office Version Startup Folder Location
      2010 Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Startup
      2007 Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Startup
      2003 Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Startup
      2002 Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup
      2000 Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Startup
    4. Move all files that are in the “Startup” directory to another location on your hard drive.
    5. Next, open the following folder: “Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup” – replacing username with the name of your log in name.
    6. Move all files that are located in the above directory to another location on your hard drive.
    7. Restart Word to see if the “Word Cannot Open this Document Template” error disappears. If it does, continue to the next section.

    Find the Add-in That Causes the “Word Cannot Open this Document Template” Error

    Once the add-ins have been removed, and the “Word Cannot Open this Document Template” error has disappeared, it is time to find the add-in that is causing the problem. Use the following steps to find the problem add-in

    1. Close Microsoft Word.
    2. Begin to copy one file that you moved from one of the two “Startup” directories back to the proper “Startup” directory and restart Microsoft Word.
    3. After copying one file and restarting Word, if the “Word Cannot Open this Document Template” reappears, then you found the problem add-in.

    The above steps should help you to solve the problem of the error message “Word cannot open this document template template name” being displayed when Word is started.

  • Choosing Amazon Kindle Fire: 5 Reasons It Trumps the Apple iPad

    Choosing Amazon Kindle Fire: 5 Reasons It Trumps the Apple iPad

    The announcement of Amazon’s foray into the world of tablets generated buzz even before the official unveiling of the Amazon Kindle Fire. Pre-sales for the Kindle Fire reached over 95,000 on the first day alone. While Apple may not be showing signs of panic yet, consumers can look forward to a drop in price and a race for sales among tablet competitors during the holiday season.

    Regardless of the tablet market shake up, the Kindle Fire may be the best tablet at the best price for the average tablet user and in many ways, the Kindle Fire is showing its superiority to the iPad.

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  • Mobile Phone Security: How a Hacker Can Listen to Your Calls

    Mobile Phone Security: How a Hacker Can Listen to Your Calls

    Cell phone hacking has become a large problem today, which makes mobile phone security a hot topic. The way hackers do this, is that they either sell or offer programs online that people must download to their cell phones. What people do not realize though, is that while they are downloading the programs, they are also unknowingly installing spyware onto their phones at the same time.

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  • Traffic Stats: September 2011

    Traffic Stats: September 2011

    Last month my blog had experienced a few issues, which in the end affected the amount of traffic to my blog. The issues involved my blog experiencing downtime throughout the month. For the most part the downtime was between a few minutes and less than an hour, there was a longer downtime that had an impact on my traffic levels.

    Besides the downtime, which I will explain below, my traffic throughout September was pretty consistent, but I am always striving to consistently increase my traffic each month.

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  • VIPRE Antivirus Registration Giveaway

    VIPRE Antivirus Registration Giveaway

    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of GFI for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

    I have one registration key for VIPRE Antivirus that I will giveaway to one winner of the contest that I am currently holding. If you are unfamiliar with VIPRE Antivirus software, it is a great antivirus product that has won numerous awards because of the quality of the product.

    Before I get into the contest details, I’ll provide a quick overview of VIPRE Antivirus. If you want to read my opinion, I did publish a review of VIPRE antivirus a little while ago.

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