What is Your Web Site’s Copyright?

I am active on the Website Babble forums where I occasionally attempt to provide assistance to web site and blog owners. One question that is continuously raised is that of copyright. If you were to publish your own content on a web site or blog, what is the copyright of that content?

One fear of a web site or blog owner is someone copying their work and publishing it on another site. In this post I will talk about the copyright of your own work as well as talk about what you do to stop it.

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What is a Hard Drive?

I have decided to start writing more posts geared towards talking about computer components, what they are and how they work. For many, it can be confusing to buy a computer and trying to understand what is in the computer.

Since I recently wrote a post about recovering data from a hard drive with bad sectors, I decided to begin my computer component discussion by talking about hard drives.

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How to Capture Action Shots Outdoors

I was recently at the park taking pictures of my oldest son on the swings. As I took the pictures, I noticed another person doing the same with members of his family next to me. I stood and watched for a moment as he became disappointed when his pictures came out blurry, and he eventually gave up.

Taking pictures of kids on the swings requires a bit more effort than simply taking pictures of a stationary individual. As I watched the man, I thought about the many settings on his camera he could change to take the picture he was hoping for. I will talk about those settings in this post.

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 4

Blogging Platforms

This post is the fourth and final post in my series about converting from Blogger to WordPress. I have discussed installing WordPress locally, domain names and hosts, and plugins and themes.

In this post I will finish off with moving your blog to WordPress, pointing the two domain names to your WordPress blog, and then preventing Google from thinking your two domains contain duplicate content.

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 3

Blogging Platforms

In the first part I discussed installing WordPress on your local machine, and importing your Blogger posts into WordPress. From there, I talked about purchasing a domain name, and a host in part 2 of this series.

If you have been looking at WordPress on your local machine you have probably come across plugins and themes. You may have figured out what they are, but if you haven’t, I will discuss them in this post.

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 2

Blogging Platforms

This post will continue the steps that I took to convert my Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. In Blogger to WordPress – Part 1 I talked about installing WordPress on your local machine. This was done to help you learn WordPress and practice importing your Blogger data.

In this part I will talk about domain names and hosts, what they are and how they will be used during the conversion.

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 1

Blogging Platforms

I recently mentioned that I had converted to WordPress from Blogger. I also mentioned that the conversion was easier than I thought it was going to be. While I found it easy, some may still not be comfortable converting to WordPress from Blogger.

To ease any fears of converting, I decided to write several posts about converting from Blogger to WordPress. I will break down the conversion into several parts and discuss what actions are required to complete each part. In the end, I hope to help others make the conversion quickly, and easily.

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Testing for Bad Sectors

In my last post titled Recovering Data from a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors, I mentioned that I had recently recovered data from a hard drive that had bad sectors. In that post I also talked about what bad sectors are and what happens when they appear.

One thing I didn’t talk about was detecting bad sectors. In this post I will touch on some tools you can use that can help identify if your computer has bad sectors.

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