More Internet How-To
- 30 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to Set Up a Pinterest Business Page
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter and Google+, social bookmarking site Pinterest has unveiled pages exclusively for businesses.
- 29 November 2012
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How-Tos: Back up Gmail to a local drive
Charles Johnson has a "nagging worry" about all those important messages stored in Gmail. He asked if there's a way to back them up locally to his hard drive.
- 28 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to Set Up a Pinterest Business Page
You have no doubt watched the rise of Pinterest, the latest social media phenom. But have you switched to the new Pinterest Business Pages? Here's how to do it, plus details on its other exclusive features.
- 27 November 2012
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How-Tos: 7 Email Marketing Tips to Boost Holiday Sales
To quickly increase online sales this holiday season, start with a good schedule, work in rewards and don't forget about social and mobile customers.
- 14 November 2012
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How-Tos: Salesforce.com's Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together
As Salesforce.com's SaaS offerings become more sophisticated, configuration and deployment gets more complex. In response, enterprises are increasingly turning to partners for implementation help.
- 12 November 2012
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How-Tos: How Small Businesses Can Manage Their Online Reputation
Small business owners face numerous anonymous threats in the Internet era. While keeping bullies, trolls and extortionists at bay online is similar to what you should do in real life, repairing the damage they can do to your business requires a different set of reputation management skills that make the online 'noise' they create disappear.
- 09 November 2012
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How-Tos: Set up your addresses in Messages
When you set up the Messages app in iOS or OS X, you must supply it with an active Apple ID. But a single Apple ID can be associated with multiple phone numbers and email addresses, and the iMessage system enables you to send and receive messages to and from any email address or iPhone number that’s associated with that ID.
- 07 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to Deal With Panda, Penguin and Other Google Algorithm Changes
In an effort to improve search result quality and punish black-hat SEO, Google has been making big changes to its algorithms, and more updates are likely on the way soon. Here's how to prepare.
- 05 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to share family contacts
Reader Walt Bischoff and his spouse--like all good couples--would like to share more of their lives with one another. He writes:
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How-Tos: How to print anything from anywhere: Your ultimate guide to mobile printing
Printing anything from anywhere is no longer fantasy. In fact, it's often a necessity if using a smartphone, tablet, or laptop is an essential part of your daily workflow.
- 01 November 2012
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How-Tos: Create iMovie titles or watermarks with creative overlays
iMovie ’11 offers many options for styling title text—more than you probably realized. But what if you want even more control over how text appears? Or maybe you want a custom graphic or logo to appear in the corner of your video. With an image editor and a small amount of trickery, you can easily do so.
- 26 October 2012
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How-Tos: Create cool video titles in Final Cut Pro X
If you edit video, you probably use titles—to introduce a topic, identify a speaker, or perhaps credit actors and crew. Title design goes beyond just the choice of words. Fonts, colors, size, graphic elements, and animation all combine to establish a tone that can unify, support, and enhance your entire project.
- 22 October 2012
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How-Tos: Broadband doesn't work unless I pick up the phone
When a reader contacted us to tell us his broadband connection worked only when he lifted the receiver on his phone, our Helproom Editor explained that it was probably a problem with an ADSL filter. Here's how to fix broadband that works only when you lift up the phone.
- 17 October 2012
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How-Tos: How to move from Gmail to Outlook.com
So you've decided you like the cut of Outlook.com's jib, so much so that you're ready to ditch Gmail and move your mail into Microsoft's camp. Easier said than done, right?
- 11 October 2012
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How-Tos: Save the Web's best bits for later with Pocket
One hassle I'm constantly dealing with is how to remember and return to all the interesting reading material I find online.
- 10 October 2012
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How-Tos: Master VLC, the ultimate Windows media player for power users
Let's just rip off the Band-Aid and get the bad news out of the way: The standard version of Windows 8 won't include Windows Media Center or the ability to play DVDs by default.
- 08 October 2012
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How-Tos: How to share documents with iCloud
The new dream in computing is keeping all of your files in "the cloud," on remote servers that you can access from anywhere at any time. Apple's cloud-based syncing and storage service, iCloud, debuted in June 2011. Still, only since the release of OS X Mountain Lion that enough applications have started to support iCloud document syncing for this feature to be useful. Working with iCloud is fairly simple, but you need to know the ground rules if you plan to start storing your documents in the cloud.
- 04 October 2012
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How-Tos: How to get great audio in iMovie '11
Audio can be the most important part of your movie, and bad audio can ruin the cinematic experience for viewers. Background noise, low sound, or obtrusive music can all make your film or video unwatchable, even if it's shot beautifully.
- 21 September 2012
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How-Tos: Automatically save Gmail attachments to Dropbox or another cloud service
Reader Meg wants to know how she can save her Gmail folders to her Dropbox account.
- 18 September 2012
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How-Tos: How to Add a Cover Photo to Twitter
Twitter announced several new features today, including new mobile versions and an updated profile page that features a header photo. Here's how you can upload one.
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