About External Hard Drives . . . Part 1

Tizzie has gotten a few questions about external hard drives, so she has some simple answers for you . . . and because she knows you might ask, she will tell you about her favorite.

Patricia G asked: Mac user with prob.a dumbish question stemming from insecurity even though I’m pretty facile and confident with Macbook (how [...]

Buying Kindle Books for iPhone

The first part is like buying any book on Amazon.com. Just search for your title in the Kindle Books category instead of just Books. This happens to be a great book on Social Technology, written by Cassie’s neighbor, as it turns out. I thought it sounded good and wanted it right away.

Once you have registered [...]

Reading Books on My iPhone

Well, it is certainly no secret that I love my iPhone more than most things.

A person as busy as I am loves streamlined operations and things that make daily To-Do lists easier or at least, more pleasant.

With my iPhone in my purse or pocket, I have my phone (obviously), my address book, my notebook, my [...]

What are the Gray Boxes in Photoshop?

Nancy D asked:

Okay, this has bugged me forever and no-one has the answer but I have a feeling Tizzie will…When I drag a photo into my photoshop7 there are two gray boxes in the top left corner that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remove – it has an “01, [...]

Erasing Hard Drives

Several of you asked this question, so we grabbed it to be next.

You are correct that when you trash something or delete it, it is not really gone. Only its address is gone. So, you can’t find it, but a hacker could.

Even smashing your hard drive to bits would not be secure if there were [...]

Comment 15 Wins the USB Drive

Penny S – please send your snail mail address to:

jessica@wisdomwoman.com

and we’ll get your drive right out to you.

And now to answer your question while we are at it.

Question/Comment #15:

On the USB flash drive, are you able to put games on it instead of your computer and play off the USB drive? Thanks.

The problem with keeping [...]

Keystroke Spell Check

Even though our Giveaway does not end until tomorrow morning, I am going to start answering some of these interesting questions from our Giveaway post.

If you missed our last post, you can still qualify to win an 8 Gig USB Drive by asking Tizzie a question about computer life in the Comments to that post.

Debbie [...]

Giving Away A Flash Drive!

What is a Flash Drive? (Also called a Jump Drive) Think of it like a memory card in a cute little case that can go on your keychain. Makes it easy to understand.

What is not as easy to understand is how in the world they got an 8 gigabyte hard drive into this little space [...]

How To Use Twitter (if you want to)

I was all set to explain this in simple terms when I ran into the coolest video called Twitter in Plain English. Not only is the explanation wonderful, the video is illustrated in such a creative way.

I am giving you links to the video about Twitter, and to one by the same company (Commoncraft.com), on [...]

How to Subscribe to Blogs Using RSS

I previously posted this lesson on the Whatever . . .Whenever blog, and it is one of the most popular posts we’ve ever done.

People need the information because it seems baffling, but it’s not, it’s easy.

Read this post and you will never be confused about it again.

RSS – SOS!!

The post will open in a separate [...]