A simple tutorial to making signatures on The GIMP.

Tutorial Searching For Files In XP

Searching for files in XP can be something of a hit and miss affair... I've done searches for a file that is right on the desktop and XP return zero hits... Then I do searches and I get lucky... You'll see a successful search in this screencast!

SQL SERVER 2005 Tutorial

Tutorial: Web Image Properties Available Under Right Click

Tutorial: Web Image Properties Available Under Right Click

Web browers off users the ability to inspect the properties, in this case the Unique Resource Locator, for an image. The URL is invaluable in reusing the image. This tutorial shows users how to get that information.

Tutorial of How To Download Music Videos from Yahoo

Tutorial Basic Internet Security on a Public Terminal and Internet Explorer


Internet Explorer is a primitive and wholly untrustworthy browser but often it is what you'll find in Internet cafes... don't let accessing your email on vacation become your worst nightmare. Clean up after yourself by clearing your cookies, borking your last email address on your favorite internet web mail site and dumping your web history... some cafes will let you do it and I'd recommend you do! The web is full of stories of people walking away having left way too much information for the next person!

Tutorial OpenOffice Creating Good Tutorials With screengrabs and Call Outs


free office suite
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.--http://www.openoffice.org/

In this tutorial you'll see how to effectively and efficiently construct software documentation by using screengrabs and callouts. Keep in mind that the image cropping tool in OpenOffice is perhaps one of the most curiously flawed interfaces and toolsets I've ever seen but OO is still better than MS.

If you've got other tips and tricks for OpenOffice please share your screencast by publishing!

Tutorial XP Renaming Hard Drives and Sharing Them On the Network

Tutorial XP Renaming Hard Drives and Sharing Them On the Network

Under the right click option you'll find the ability to rename and set sharing parameters for your folders and hard drives. In this tutorial I show you how to do just that!

If you've got other tips or tricks for getting more out of XP please post your screencast!

Tutorial Checking md5sums Under XP


rom the website:
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/
MD5sums calculates the MD5 message digest for one or more files (includes a percent done display for large files). By comparing the MD5 digest of a file to a value supplied by the original sender, you can make sure that files you download are free from damage and tampering. MD5 values are frequently supplied along with downloadable files. (Optimized implementation).

This little tutorial takes you into the world of the command line (CL) of Windows XP. Everyone lived on the CL under DOS. Then Mac came along and the desktop appeared... the CL was beaten back from the user and most were happy not having to remember arcane commands. Then, computing regrouped around power users and Linux and Redmond listened, a little bit. XP's CL is nothing compared to Linux but at least it'll remember the last command passed if you don't close the command line window.

Watch how you can drag and drop into the CL as well... it's cool.

Getting New and Different Keywords

This is going to be a slightly more advanced tutorial; hopefully you’ve seen the other tutorials before this one. We’re going to get a little more into your keywords and the different match types on your keywords and how to get better keywords and phrases so you can think out of the box. Thinking a little out of the box is what’s going to separate you from the other 150,000-plus advertisers that are currently doing stuff at Google right now. It’s being a little smarter or a little better than your competition is what you want to do.

What we are going to do is let’s just take any campaign here and first let’s just go over these match types here. I’m going to pretend I’m going to add a keyword here. So let’s say I’m going to do shoes. If I type this in – this is called a broad match – and that means anything that a person types in having to do with “shoes�? is going to be shown. It could be “red shoes,�? “shoes in New York,�? “horse shoes,�? almost anything. But if I want to try to narrow it a little bit, let’s take “red shoes�?, now this means that the phrase is going to have to be in that search query. So somebody is going to type in – it could be “red shoes in Amsterdam�?. As long as “red shoes�? is in there you could have any other query that you want but it’s going to have to be “red shoes�?. No, the person doesn’t have to type the quotes around it.

Now this is called phrase match. Broad match is the first one, then “phrase match,�? and the next one that we are going to do – if I can do this right here – is called exact match. What that is is if you type in with a little bracket here, if you have this, that means that the person has to type in “red shoes�? in the search engine and that’s it. There can’t be anything else. And you can actually show a different ad for each one of these; however, you want to set it up but of course this one is highly targeted, the most highly targeted because it’s the most restrictive. This one the phrase just has to be anywhere and this one, pretty much anything goes.

So there are different strategies that you want to use for these keywords and there are a lot of examples in the videos that Google already gives you. But just for brevity here if you’re going to use this, you have to watch your targeting because people will type in things that have words that you wouldn’t think of. I showed you a couple other examples when you look at HintsLink. So if you’re going to use a broad match, it can work but you’ve got to have a lot of negative keywords to try to help your targeting. And if you’re going to use this type of match here – the exact match – it sometimes is a little frustrating because you’re going to get a lot less traffic and sometimes these phrases are very expensive. This is what you’re going to use if you get a little frustrated or you get beat up on the broad match sometime and your click-thru ratio is really bad. You can just go and take all your phrases and put them to this exact match.