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  • 10 Important Things I Learned About Blogging

    10 Important Things I Learned About Blogging

    It has been over three years since I stepped into the blogging arena. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started, and while I have made many mistakes, I have learned from all of those mistakes. It was June 2007 when I decided to try my hand a blogging, and I am glad that I have kept at it for over three years.

    I have been thinking about what I have done with regards to my blog in those three years, some goals that I have achieved, but mainly what I have learned. I decided to share several things that I have learned to help others new to blogging learn quicker than I did.

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  • How to Secure the D-Link WBR-1310 Wireless G Router

    How to Secure the D-Link WBR-1310 Wireless G Router

    This article will explain how to secure the D-link WBR-1310 Wireless G router. It is important, regardless of which wireless router you use, to secure the router to ensure that unauthorized individuals can’t access your Internet connection, and local network.

    To prevent someone from accessing your wireless router, it is important to properly secure it. By default, wireless routers aren’t sold with security enabled, to allow you to easily connect to them. The steps outlined in this article pertain to the D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router.

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  • A List of Common Tags in a Blogger Blog Post Header

    A List of Common Tags in a Blogger Blog Post Header

    There are many labels and fields that can be modified to change the look of your Blogger blog’s post header. You can choose to use all the available fields, some of the fields, or none of the fields. Since the fields are related to each blog post, you can even display them anywhere on your post, even the footer.

    In this post I will list some of the most common data tags you may find in a Blogger template. By using the tags in the list, you can control what information is displayed in each of your blog posts.

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  • Router Configuration Pages Not Displayed Fully in Web Browser

    Router Configuration Pages Not Displayed Fully in Web Browser

    You may run into an issue where your router’s configuration pages may not display properly, or fully, in your web browser. I have recently seen this issue with a wired router after connecting the router from one computer to another. I reset the router a few times, but the configuration pages in the browser window never completely rendered – the lower part of each web page was missing.

    While I haven’t seen this before, I wasn’t sure if there was a problem with the router or the local computer I was working on. I had used this router in the past, and never experienced any problems with it, so I decided to look at the computer for the problem.

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  • How To Load the Contact Form 7 Script for a Contact Page Only

    How To Load the Contact Form 7 Script for a Contact Page Only

    You can stop the Contact Form 7 plugin’s script and stylesheet from loading on every page of your WordPress blog. While the plugin is a great one to install, since it makes creating contact forms easy, you probably don’t want to load the script and stylesheet on every page. For those that one to get every ounce of performance out of their blog, you definitely don’t want those two resources to load each time.

    The good news is that it is easy to only load the plugin’s resources on a specific page of your WordPress blog. By simply creating a few lines of code in the functions.php file of your current theme, you can control when scripts and stylesheets are loaded for many plugins that you have installed. Let’s look at how to do this for the Contact Form 7 plugin.

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  • Find RSS Scrapers with the CopyFeed WordPress Plugin

    Find RSS Scrapers with the CopyFeed WordPress Plugin

    A WordPress plugin called CopyFeed or CopyFeed can help you track down any RSS feed scrapers that are copying your hard work and publishing it on their blogs. This is a common problem for anyone that authors a blog. While you can’t stop anyone from taking your content and publishing it on their own blog, there are ways you can track them down and take action. If you own a WordPress blog, there are many plugins that can help you, including the CopyFeed plugin that I will discuss in this post.

    Keep in mind that there are several different methods of tracking down RSS feed scrapers, but I will focus this post on the plugin mentioned above. I will probably be looking at other such plugins in the future.

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  • Is Your Laptop LCD Becoming Dark?

    Is Your Laptop LCD Becoming Dark?

    I recently had an issue with my wife’s laptop’s LCD slowly becoming dark. It started with the left side slowly getting darker, and soon the darkness would spread across half the screen. It became so bad that it was almost unreadable.

    This issue occurred regardless of whether the laptop was connected to an AC power source or it was running off the battery. Also if it was because of the power management options, the whole screen would have become dark, and not just the left side. After some research I found it was probably due to the inverter that is connected to the LCD display.

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  • Can You Succeed With Google’s Blogger Platform?

    Can You Succeed With Google’s Blogger Platform?

    It has been just over 3 years since I started Technically Easy. I have learned a lot within those three years, have made some mistakes (still do), met many great people, but more importantly, I continue to learn to this day. When I began blogging I started out on Google’s Blogger platform – mainly because it was a great way of learning how to blog as it was free and quick to setup.

    Since that time, however, I have switch to a self-hosted WordPress blog. While there were many reasons why I switched, I still enjoy playing around with Blogger, and the templates. One of the questions that I see raised quite often on various blogs and forums is whether you can succed with Blogger?

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