Insert your Facebook profile or business page link into your email

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Mitz
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It doesn’t matter if you are using Facebook for business or pleasure, if you are looking for friends you need to get your link out there.  Without becoming a stalker, the best way to help people find your Facebook profile or your Facebook fan page is to put a link to these pages in your emails. Most email programs allow you to add an email signature that will send out your links to Facebook every time you simply send an email.

The main hurdle to face when adding a Facebook link to your email is:

1..”How can I find the link? Facebook is so confusing.

2..”Is the link I am seeing when I am logged in the same as what they need to click on?”

How to find the URL for your own Facebook Profile page?

1.  Log into Facebook. Click on the Profile link at the top of the page.

facebook url link in email

2.  There is a URL in the top address bar. See the screenshot below where the red arrow is.

3.  Select this text by clicking on it and making it blue.

4.  Right click on the blue selection and choose copy.

facebook link in email

5.  Here is my URL to my profile page. This is when I am logged in http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/Tips4pc

6. After removing what is not needed the link looks like this…

http://www.facebook.com/Tips4pc

7.  That’s the link that I should paste into my email.

To find a link to a Facebook page:

1.  Click on the home link on the right hand corner.

2.  Click on Ads and Pages in the left sidebar.

3.  Then choose the pages link in the left column. See the screen shot below.

4.  Choose the page you want to get the link for.

5.  Once you are at your page, copy the URL like in steps 2-4 above.

facebook page URL

6.  My URL that I copied was http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=51993129#!/pages/Tips4pc/167156574680

7.  The last number is the page number so we can shorten this URL also to this http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tips4pc/167156574680 which looks better.

8. That is the link to put into your email.

When gathering friends for your personal profile there is a limit to 5,000 friends and this is why we have to make pages and groups. When you are in business it is not hard to rack up 5,000 friends. Imagine if you had that many friends in real life? OMG. What if you had a BBQ and had a few friends over for dinner?

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How to make an anchor text link in a Word document?

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Mitz
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What is an Anchor text link?

When writing a word document and attempting to insert a hyperlink, it always looks better if you use anchor text instead of a messy URL. For example instead of putting just http://www.wordpresswebsitehost.com you can put something like this WordPress Website Host. Obviously it looks more professional using anchor text for a website URL. Anchor text will let the potential clicker know what kind of information will be on the resulting web page. Another example is http://www.tips4pc.com or Free Computer Help. They both link to the same place but clearly, one link is definitely more appealing.

How to insert a hyperlink in a Word document using anchor text?

1.  Select the text that you want to make the anchor text by making it blue.

2.  Right click on the blue selection and a menu will appear.

anchor text in word 2007

3.  Choose hyperlink from the menu.

hyperlink anchor text 

4.  Your text you selected will automatically be inserted into the Text to display section at the top.

5.  Under the link to heading on the left, make sure Existing File or Webpage is selected.

6.  Fill in the Address with the URL of the website you want to link to.

7.  Then press ok.

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How to Remove an Added Word to the Dictionary in Microsoft Word

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Mitz
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My friends family had some pretty intense Scrabble games when we were growing up. In fact I remember when her dad left them for good in the Christmas of 1989 because her brother won the holiday championship on the word “grushie.” Ironically, this is an adjective that means thriving and healthy which unfortunately her family wasn’t for the next 5-8 years.

Nowadays, we don’t have to consult a dictionary when performing our word processing because if Microsoft Word spellchecker doesn’t like a word, we can simply select add to dictionary like I just did with grushie, and it will be part of our lexicon forever. That may seem fine, but what if you accidentally add a word that doesn’t exist like juveline and years later put it in your business plan?

How to remove an added dictionary word from Microsoft Word 2007?

In Word 2007, the process is similar to the old days but the exact commands are called proofing and edit word list. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to download the latest dictionary every year as new words are constantly being added and it’s important to keep your grammar list healthy and thriving, or grushie.

1. Press on the office icon in the top left corner.

2.  A menu will appear. At the bottom choose the Word Options button.

3. In the left pane choose Proofing.

4. Then press on Settings. See the screen shot below for more details. It is under the “When correcting spelling and grammar in Word” section.

remove words from dictionary

5. A box will appear.Click on Edit word list.

edit word dictionary

6. Choose a word in the list to remove and press on the delete button to banish.

Microsoft word dictionary

How to remove an added dictionary word from Microsoft Word (prior to 2007)?

Removing an added word from Microsoft Word is a simple task to save you embarrassment and the perception of laziness from your co-workers.

1. First, go to Tools

2. Choose Options.

3. From here you’ll enter the Spelling & Grammar section and modify the custom dictionary.

4. Browse through the list of ‘credible’ words and find the one you want to banish (remove) then select OK.

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Remove fast access facial recognition from your Dell laptop

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Mitz
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I just purchased a Dell Studio i7 Laptop for my daughter and while testing it out noticed how slow it was running. It was running even slower than our old core duo Dell laptop we had running next to the new one. The new one had Windows Seven and the older one had Windows Vista. Let me tell you I was not very happy. Buying a new top of the range laptop, bringing it home, and discovering it ran as slow as a tortoise in mud. Obviously I knew how to solve this but it was the hassle that upset me. New computers and laptops are full of trial software and cool features that hog cpu resources. One of the main offenders was the Fast Access was facial recognition software. This cool feature was scanning my face to see if it recognized me so it could log me in without typing a password in. Well besides not actually recognizing anyone, it slowed the computer down to the extent of me saying, “why bother?” Why have this feature in the first place?

How to remove Fast Access facial recognition software?

1.  Go to the start menu and choose control panel.
2.  Go to Programs and Features or Programs. This is the equivalent of Add or Remove programs in Windows XP.
3.  When it is open find the Fast Access software in the list of installed programs. See the screen shot below.

remove fast access

4.  When it is selected choose the uninstall icon at the top of the list.

4.  The Fast Access Setup Wizard will appear. Press next. See Screen shot below.

remove facial recognition

5.  In the next window choose the Remove option. See below.

Dell facial recognition

6.  Now you will have a choice to leave configuration files or remove them all. If you plan to not re-install this program you can remove all files.

7.  Then press next.

8.  Now press on the Remove icon.

After this process I restarted the computer and the speed of the laptop improved by at least 20%. Later I removed other trial software and stopped at least 6 programs in the start up section in msconfig.

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What is Bluetooth

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Mitz
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BluetoothNo matter the commercial in recent years, it seems every product claims to be bluetooth enabled. The other day I think I heard about a loaf of bread even having bluetooth access. The question begs to be asked; exactly what is bluetooth? To many people, its sounds like something you’d get from kissing a smurf.

Bluetooth was named after King Harold Bluetooth who united Denmark, Norway, & Sweden. The bluetooth technology is a personal area network that unifies your electronic devises. Ericcson developed the technology so that a laptop, cell phone, and camera could all be connected within a small radius. The range of the network can be between 30 and 100 ft. The infrared rays also travel through walls so it doesn’t work like a TV remote where you need a fairway of clean paths just to switch the channel. Devices that are bluetooth ready prove to be a nice safety addition for hands free cell phone use while driving. Information can be shared between users within a small network. So the answer to what is bluetooth could be listed as a small personal network used for safety, communication, and device interaction.

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