How to Download & Install on Linux

Thanks to the popularity of lightweight, low-cost laptop computers called "netbooks," many consumers are being introduced to the Linux operating system for the first time. If you have purchased a netbook or other computer running Linux, one of the first things you will want to do is search for, download and install software. Use your computer's built-in package manager to download software and install it automatically.

Instructions

Click "System," "Administration" and "Synaptic Package Manager."

Note: This article describes the process of downloading and installing software using the Ubuntu distribution of Linux---one of the most common Linux distributions. However, other Linux distributions may include different package managers, which may have menu options differing from those described here.

Enter your Administrative password and click "OK."

Click a category on the left side of the screen, such as "Editors," "Email" or "Games and Amusement," then browse the list on the right side of the screen to see what programs are available to download. Alternatively, if you know the name of the program or want to look for something containing a specific keyword, enter it in the "Quick search" box, then click the "Search" button.

Click the check box next to the program that you would like to download and install, then click "Mark for installation." In many cases, Linux will also need to install other software packages---called "dependencies"---that must be installed for your chosen program to work properly. Click "Mark" to mark the dependencies for installation.

Click the "Apply" button at the top of the screen. A confirmation screen will appear, displaying a list of each software package that is marked for installation. If everything looks as it should, click the "Apply" button to download and install the software you have selected.

How Parents Can Block Certain Websites

Parents who want to restrict their children's web-surfing have a few options. Browsers provide useful tools for oversight when you are concerned about inappropriate material. To deploy one of these solutions takes about five minutes.

Instructions

Launch your Internet Explorer browser.

Select Tools in the main menu bar. Scroll down and click Internet Options.

Click the Content tab and then click the "Enable" button. Click the Approved Sites tab.

Type in the full Web address of the site that you want to block. Hit the "Never" button.

Click the "Apply" button. Hit the "OK" button. Restart your browser.

Launch your Firefox browser.

Go to the Inspired Effect site (see Resources).

Click the "Download Now" button. Put a check mark in the box next to "I have read, understand and agree to the End-User License Agreement stated above."

Click the "Click here to Download Now!" link and then the "Install Now" button.

Click Tools in the main menu bar. Scroll down and select Foxfilter Settings.

Click the Blocked tab on the page that appears. Enter into the Keywords field the address of the website that you want blocked. Click the "Save changes" button.

How to Find a Program Using DIRECTV Plus DVR

DIRECTV offers a lot of different options for TV viewers, but those new to the advanced technology may be lost before they even turn on their TV. Instead of spending hours and hours searching through channels and written guides to find a program you are looking for, you can use DIRECTVs guide to help with the situation.

Instructions

Turn on your DIRECTV receiver and have your DIRECTV remote handy.

If you want to browse through the guide to see current and upcoming shows, then press the guide button located towards the middle of your remote.

The current show that you are watching will minimize up to the top right hand corner and the guide will be on the screen.

Use the black arrow buttons to scroll through the different channels and find television programs.

Press the Info button over a highlighted program to find out more detailed information about that program. Press info again to go back to the guide.

Press the Green button on the remote control to jump ahead 12 hours if you are looking for a show in the future. This is time saving and convenient, especially since the listings can go a week in advance.

If you prefer to continue watching your program on the full screen, but still want to see the guide then press the blue button on your remote. This button will load a mini-guide that showcases one channel at a time.

Use the arrows to scroll through different shows and press select if you have found a show that you want to view.

To search for a specific show, press the Menu button on your remote. The Quick Menu will load up on the left side of the screen.

Use the remotes arrows to highlight the option that says SEARCH.

Now you will be asked to search for title, person, keyword, or channel. Select one of these options and then use the on screen keyboard and the remote to type in your search selection.

Your search results will come up and you can find more information about them by pressing the info button on your remote.

How to Define an Objective Statement

Whether an objective statement is placed on a resume, CV or a cover letter to a prospective employer, it needs to capture a great deal of information about your professional goals and aspirations in as few words as possible. Defining one can therefore be a challenge. With the right strategy, a well-defined objective statement can reap positive results.

Instructions

Jot down some thoughts about your career goals and aspirations, such as the kind of profession you'd like to enter -- retail, instructional design, education, technical and so forth.

Write down three to five strengths and qualifications you have that you can offer a future employer, and be as specific as possible. Include any use of or training in specific software programs, or experience in developing certain products. For example, instead of saying, "Worked with workflow tracking software," say, "Used Microsoft Visio to track and monitor workflow process." Keep a running list and add to it over the course of one or two days.

Write down the type of position you're seeking, such as SEO engineer, fashion buyer or technical writer. Be as specific as possible.

Think about and write down the type of organization you'd like to work in. For example, a national or international corporation or a small startup company.

Once you've written down your goals, strengths, type of job you're seeking and organization you'd like to work in, take the most important words and phrases from each statement to define your objective statement. For example, if your responses were as follows:

Goals: To work full time in the insurance industry as an account executive

Strengths: Hard worker, ambitious, can think on my feet, can multitask, trained in and good at contract negotiations

Type of position: sales, account executive

Type of organization: national

Your objective statement might include these keywords: insurance industry, trained in, contract negotiations, account executive, national.

A well-defined objective statement can contribute to a promising career path.

Take the keywords and phrases and work them into a full objective statement. Begin the statement with the object of the sentence such as "A position in," or begin with a verb and then the object, as in "Seeking a position as..."

Check your statements against examples. The Internet is a good resource for sample objective statements. Here are two examples using the keywords in the former step:

Seeking work in the insurance industry to utilize high-level negotiations training in a position as national account executive.

A national position in the insurance industry as account executive to utilize negotiations training and capitalize on contracts success.

Latch Options for Door Locks

Once your baby or toddler is mobile, you need to have a baby-proof home, and that includes blocking off-limit areas in the home accessed through doors. There are several different strategies to help childproof your home.

One easy way to childproof doors with doorknob protectors that make it difficult for a young child to open the door. A lot of force needs to be applied in order to open the door, which prevents younger children from opening the door. These should be used on high-traffic areas where you do not want to put a lock on the door that will require a key. They can also be applied to only one side of the door, which makes them ideal for the bathroom or exterior doors. The protectors are easy to remove once your child has outgrown them and leave no lasting marks.
If you have a closet with a door that folds open and does not have a twisting handle, you may want to use a latch system that you would normally use on a cupboard. You slide the latch over both doorknobs and tighten, and then the child cannot open the door without removing the latch. You can also buy versions of these with alarms so that you know if your child has broken through the latch.

There may be areas in your house where you do not want your child to enter at all. This may be your office or a place where you store guns or chemicals. The best solution is to install a door with a deadbolt or with a key that is specific to the door. This will make it more difficult for you to enter the area, so it is best if this is not a high-traffic area. If you are concerned about your older children entering this room as well, it is important to remember that the lock is only as secure as your key is hidden from your children.

Child-safety gates are great for keeping toddlers and babies in or out of a specific area. There may be times when you want to keep an eye on your children without having them enter the room you are in. For example, if you are cleaning the bathroom or mopping the kitchen and do not want your children in the room. A baby-safety gate allows you to accomplish this without shutting the door. These may also be a good option for rooms you do not want your child to access but still want them to be able to find you.

How to Find a Job in Another State Online

An individual may need to move to another state for several reasons. Whether it is family matters, lower taxes, quality of life, better schooling or the high of working in a reputed company, finding a job in another state is not difficult if you do some research online. Here's how you can use the Internet to find a job in another state.

Instructions

Go to employment sections of frequently used search engines such as Yahoo!, Google or AOL and look for job-related keywords using the location search criteria. These search engines and popular jobs portals such as Dice, Monster, Career Builder and HotJobs prompt visitors to enter a preferred city name, zip code or state along with the keywords to be searched for. Performing a search this way will give you a list of all jobs that match your skill sets and in any of the states.

Specify only location information to show all opportunities available in the specified area. Some job portals such as Jobster and SnagAJob support local directories to assist people in finding state/city-specific jobs.

Use the Internet to search for the best employers in the other state. Many magazines and portals usually come up with such lists. Simply Googling "Best Employers in (state)" may also yield results. Look at the positions open in these companies and send your resume accordingly.

Go to the official Web site for state and local government (see below) to view a list of state-specific, government job sites. Among other helpful resources, the list also includes links to employment networks. Another similar site is globalcomputing.com (see below). This site gives links to several resources for all states. The menu to the left includes options specific to different areas of United States. Some such options are U.S. Cities, U.S. Counties and U.S. States. Use any of these links to reach official sites of a city, county or state and explore job opportunities posted there.

Look up Web sites of staffing agencies of the state where you want to work. Local recruiting agencies might have better options.

Use networking sites such as LinkedIn, MySpace and Orkut to get in touch with residents of the destination state. The more people you network with, the higher are your chances of getting a good break.

How to Buy Gay and Lesbian Books Online

Not every city and town has a bustling gay and lesbian bookstore with an attached coffee shop overflowing with sexy men and women, but maybe they should. Anyway, whether there's a store in your town or not, you can always buy your gay and lesbian books online. Here's how to find some places to look.

Instructions

Start your quest at the we site of A Different Light Bookstore (adlbooks.com), and there's a good chance you won't need to go any farther. The company has locations in New York, San Francisco and West Hollywood and claims to be world's largest gay and lesbian bookstore.

Scroll through a list of stores that just might have what you want at Rainbow Query's Bookstore category (rainbowquery.com). You'll find some broken links and lots of useless ones, but the good stuff is there, too.

Search for bookstores in your area using the American Association of Bookseller's BookWeb.org site. Enter keywords such as "gay," "lesbian" or "feminist" in the description field of its member directory query, then choose a city or state, if desired.

Get your books the mainstream way, from a major online book retailer.

How to Use Brutus Password Cracker

If you have ever lost the password to your website you know how big of a pain it can be to try to guess the password from one of the known user names. Brutus is a free downloadable password cracker that has the ability to decode a wide array of password types. Brutus is also a handy utility if you have ever wondered how secure your website or server is. Brutus runs from a remote location meaning there are no large files to store on your computer and offers an easy-to-use interface.

Instructions

Download the Brutus executable file onto your computer. Go to hoobie.net (see Resources) and download the Brutus ZIP file. Once downloaded, unzip the file and double-click on the Brutus executable file, which is named BrutusA2.exe.

Enter your Internet Protocol (IP) address into the Target box at the top of the Brutus interface. If you do not know your IP address there are many free IP address checkers available on the web. (See Resources.)

Set the Type input to the type of crack you are trying to perform. Brutus has set the Type input to HTTP by default and should be left alone. Other options include FTP, POP3 and NetBus for advanced cracking.

Enter the port number in the port box on the Brutus interface. There are 65,535 port possibilities, but the default port for web traffic is 80, so that is a safe option to use. The slide bars for Connections and Timeout next to the Port input are preset and should be left alone.

Set the HTTP (Basic) Options. The HTTP (Basic) Options will vary depending on what type of crack you are performing. Set the HTTP (Basic) Options input to "Head" and click on the "Keep Alive" box to ensure there is a check mark.

Set the Authentication Options. If your system does not require a username, but simply a password or PIN number click the "Use Username" checkbox. If you have a username and know it, click the "Single User" checkbox and enter the known username in the input box below it. Brutus uses user.txt as the default input, which automatically checks against common usernames, such as Admin and Administrator. If your username is commonly used, simply leave user.txt in the input box.

Set the Pass Mode and Pass File options. Brutus has a default setting that will run the password crack against all the words in the dictionary. The default setting for Pass Mode is Word List and the default setting for Pass File is words.txt. These input fields can be left alone.

Press the "Start" button and watch the progress bar as Brutus attempts to crack your passwords. Once the program has cracked a password it will appear in the Positive Authentication Results box at the bottom of the Brutus interface.

How to Create a Web page in Kompozer

For those who don't have the money or technical know-how to create an internet site using extensive web-design software, there is another option: Kompozer, an open-source, easy-to-use software tool that makes creating web pages easier. Although the software isn't completely intuitive, it is a good resource for beginners. Here's how to create a web page in Kompozer.

Instructions

Open Kompozer. A new, blank page should appear once you open the program.

Click on "Format" on the top task bar. Scroll down and select "Page Titles and Properties."

Enter the name of your web page in the "Title" field. This text is what will be displayed at the top of a visitor's browser. It could be "Welcome" or "My Homepage." Click "Okay" to save these changes.

Type text into the main body of your page. It could just be dummy text, since you are merely setting up your first web page. If you want to adjust the font size, color or background color, use the buttons located in the third bar from the top.

Click on "Edit" in the main toolbar and select "Publishing Site Settings."

Give your site a name. It doesn't have to be your URL. Enter the name in the "Site Name" field.

Enter the HTTP address of your homepage in the next field. It should look like the following: http://www.ehow.com.

Enter your publishing server information in the next section. This will be the ftp address provided to you by your web-hosting provider. It will likely be similar to the address of your home page.

Enter the username and password provided to you by your web-hosting provider. Click "Okay" when you're done.

Click on "File" and "Save." Save this page as index.html. This will serve as your home page.

Click on "File" and "Publish." Fill in the required information (if it is not already filled in for you), including the name of the page you created and the name of the file, which should be index.html.

Click "Publish." The software should automatically transmit your page to your web host. To confirm that the transfer worked properly, type in your URL and determine that the page you just created in Kompozer is now online.

How to Bypass a Business Proxy

Many businesses use proxies to keep employees from accessing sites that are deemed inappropriate due to their content, high traffic flow or because they utilize excessive bandwidth. Commonly, business proxies are set by using Internet filtering software like SmartFilter, Fortinet and Websense. However, sometimes business proxies end up restricting access to websites with valuable and appropriate content. In this type of scenario, you may bypass a business proxy by using proxy sites that allow you to bypass proxy blocks and browse the Internet anonymously.

Instructions

Go to the Peoples Proxy website (see Resources for link). Peoples Proxy allows you to access websites that are blocked and restricted by a business proxy while masking your IP address and providing anonymity.

Enter the URL for the website being blocked by the business proxy into the text box located below where it reads "Free Proxy" at the top of the webpage.

Click the "Begin Browsing" tab located just to the right of the text box.

Visit the Neoproxy website (see Resources). Neoproxy is free to use and allows users to browse all websites regardless of filters, firewalls or proxy settings established by businesses, while keeping the user's IP address anonymous and secure.

Type the URL for the blocked website into the large, yellow text box located near the top of the page.

Click on the "Go" tab located on the right side of the text box.

Go to the Bulkproxy webpage (see Resources for link). Bulkproxy offers Web users free access to websites that are restricted and filtered by places such as educational institutions or corporate offices.

Click the "Start Browse Here" link, which is a small link displayed in the middle of the screen. Once you click on the link, a text box appears; in it, type the URL address for the website being blocked by a business proxy.

Click on the "Go!" tab on the right hand side of the text box.

How to use meta tags in your website

The META tags in a website are used to help provide extra underlying information about a web page to search engines. There are a lot of different types of META tags, but we will focus on the two most important in this article which are; the Keywords META tag, and the Description META tag.

Instructions

WHERE CAN YOU FIND THESE META TAGS?
First, we will discuss where to find these META TAGS. If you are building your own website, have built a website, or are about to build a website, then you might be familiar with HTML editor tools such as Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe Dreamweaver. These programs have a basic set of META data already populated. If not, all you have to do is add the following data (NOTE: The parenthesis are carrots in code, but since you can not post HTML code on eHow, I had to compromise to show you an example):

(title)YOUR WEBSITE PAGE TITLE HERE(/title)
(meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1")
(meta name="keywords" content="ENTER YOUR KEYWORDS HERE")
(meta name="description" content="SITE DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH.")

If you do not get what I just wrote up above or if you are just starting out building a webpage, go to the "TOOLS" of your internet browser, select the "VIEW" button, then the "SOURCE" button, and you can actually view the META TAGS for this very page you are on. The META TAGS are always right at the top and look similar to the examples I provided above.

WHAT IS A KEYWORD META TAG AND WHAT IS A DESCRIPTION META TAG:
So now that you know how the search engines read the META TAGS, and you know where they are, lets figure out how to use them. I stated in the intro of this article that we will focus on the Keywords META tag and the DESCRIPTION META tag.

The Keywords META tag contains all of the keywords relevant to a page separated by commas. Search engines used to only use these, but people abused them and added all kinds of stuff to a page keyword just so that they would rank higher. DO NOT DO THIS! You will be banned from search engines, and it is just plain wrong. Stick to relevant keywords only! I can not stress this enough.

The Description META tag information is basically that paragraph you see when you search for a site. This information should be a brief paragraph that is descriptive of the page or site that you want people to go to. Simple enough. Try to keep it to 25-30 words, or two sentences. Include two to three top keywords in this description.

WRITE YOUR OWN:
So, now you are going to write your own Keyword and Description META tag. Follow my example here at all times in all of your webpages, as it has all of the basic and most relevant set of info you need to write - (NOTE: remember to replace the parenthesis with carrots so that the HTML code will be read correctly, and only change the areas that I have in ALL CAPS):

((title)YOUR WEBSITE PAGE TITLE HERE(/title)
(meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1")
(meta name="keywords" content="ENTER YOUR KEYWORDS HERE")
(meta name="description" content="SITE DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH.")

OPTIMIZE YOUR KEWORDS:
Once you have taken a crack at writing your own, check out my article entitled "How to Optimize your website keywords" to learn how to make even better keywords that help you in site search rankings.

How to Stop Foreclosure With a Grant

One of the most devastating things that can happen to you is your home being foreclosed, especially if you have a young family. At this point your options are very limited. You can try to negotiate with your lender to get more time or to make smaller payments, but once you get to the foreclosure stage, negotiating becomes extremely difficult. One option you may have is applying for a government grant to save your home.

Instructions

Visit Grants.gov and select "Find Grant Opportunities" from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen.

Click "Browse by Category." Find the "Housing" option, and click it.

Look through the available grants on the list that appears on your screen. Click on the link to find out more about each grant. Choose the one that best fits your situation. For example, you may be able to find a grant to help a veteran stop a foreclosure on his home. If you're a veteran, this grant would fit your situation.

Go back to the "Find Grant Opportunities" page if you can't find an appropriate grant by looking through the "Housing" category. Click on "Basic Search."

Type relevant keywords into the "Keyword Search" box. Examples include "home foreclosure" or "home grants." Again, look through the available grants, and choose one that fits with your situation.

Make a note of the CFDA Number, Funding Opportunity Number and Funding Opportunity Competition ID for the grant you choose. Click "Apply for Grants" from the menu on the left-hand side of your screen.

Click "Download a Grant Application Package." Enter the CFDA Number, Funding Opportunity Number and Funding Opportunity Competition ID for the grant you chose. Click "Download Package." Once the download is complete, save the application and the instructions on your computer.

Read the instructions carefully. Grants are offered through different agencies, and each one will have specific instructions to follow. Enter all the information the application requests into the appropriate fields.

Save the grant application after you've completed it. Go to the cover page of the application, and click "Save & Submit." This action will upload the application to Grants.gov.

Write down the tracking number that appears on the confirmation screen. This number will help you determine the status of your application.

Visit the Grants.gov "Track My Application" page. Enter the tracking number for your grant, and click "Track." You can also use the CFDA Number, Funding Opportunity Number or Funding Opportunity Competition ID to track your grant application.

How to Map Out Freelance Writing Assignments Efficiently and Effectively

Top income-producing freelance writers use specific time-tested steps to write fast and well. To complete their numerous freelance writing assignments efficiently, these professionals are well-organized and disciplined. Armed with these 8 tips, a busy freelance writer can map out their writing assignments successfully and grow their writing business effortlessly.

Instructions

Find a quiet place to work. If you work from home, create a special space where you can work without interruption. A freelance writer relies on concentration and time to ponder ideas to complete writing assignments efficiently.

Organize your ideas. Rather than storing your next great story concept on a small scrap of paper, use an alphabetized filing system to capture your thoughts. The filing system can hold your ideas for future writing tasks or be used to complete existing writing assignments.

Construct a consistent writing process for each freelance assignment. Identify a method to research, find contacts and check sources. Use this process each time you write to ensure a standardized approach to your freelance writing tasks.

Plan your writing day. Break up your schedule into three separate time slots for research, writing and editing. Isolate each task. To complete your freelance writing assignments quickly, designate a few solid hours for each phase of your writing.

Determine time requirements before you accept any writing assignments. Will the assignment require one hour or two days to complete? Knowledge of the time needed to complete the writing task will help a busy freelance writer plan their writing day wisely.

Create a to-do list sheet for each assignment. Write the name of the assignment and the date at the top of a blank page. After numbering the page from one to ten, write down all the tasks necessary to end the writing assignment. When you finish each task, place a check near the number of the line item, to indicate completion.

Use a mind map to brainstorm and prevent writers block. Mind mapping is a great way to generate ideas to complete the freelance writing assignment. Use a blank sheet of paper to generate ideas in a free-flowing manner. This one idea-generating exercise helps writers consolidate information effectively.

Write your copy first, then proceed to edit. This one secret helps the busiest freelance writers complete their assignments quickly. Let your ideas follow freely. Follow this step with ruthless editing. By editing while you write, you slow down your effectiveness, while simultaneously adding doubt to your prose.

How to Set Up a Yahoo Search Marketing Account

If you conduct business online, then you know the importance of using pay-per-click (PPC) search engines to drive quality traffic to your site(s). This one of the most effective online advertising methods you will find. While the majority of web masters may be familiar with Google Adwords, Yahoo offers PPC advertising as a powerful addition to your marketing arsenal. Setting up a Yahoo Search Marketing account is as easy as following a few simple steps.

Instructions

Go to your favorite search engine and type in the term "Yahoo Search Marketing" to find locate the account setup page. In most cases it will be the first result. Select "Click Here" where you see "Ready to Sign Up?"

Choose the "Self Serve" option by clicking on the orange "Sign Up" button. If you select Assisted Setup as an option, you'll have to pay $199, but the Self Serve option only requires a $30 deposit.

Locate the "Select a Market" and the "Select a Time Zone" drop-down boxes on the right side of the screen and make your choices accordingly. Click on the orange "Get Started" button when done to move on to the "Target Customers by Geographic Location" screen.

Fill in the radio button for "Entire Market" or "Specific Regions" to decide which market you want to target for your campaign, then click on the "Next: Keywords" button to proceed to the "Choose Keywords" screen.

Enter at least three keywords that relate to your campaign. Don't worry about typing in an entire list, you can add more keywords later. Just enter a few to get started, then click the "Next: Related Keywords". Add more keywords from the suggested list of related keywords, or leave your keyword list as it is and click on the "Next: Pricing" button to proceed to the "Tell Us How Much You'd Like to Spend" screen.

Type in the daily spending limit for your new campaign and select the "Next: Create Ad" button once to see Yahoo's estimates and again to move on to the "Create Your Ad" screen.

Input the Title, Description, and URL for your ad, then click the "Next: Review" button to proceed to the "Review and Activate Your Ad" screen. Enter the requested account information, then click on the orange "Activate Now button to launch your new campaign. The editorial team will review your campaign and your Yahoo search marketing account will go live once approved.

How to Get 10,000 Swagbucks

Swagbucks is an online rewards site that offers simple ways to earn free stuff. Users earn virtual currency, or Swag Bucks, by completing tasks, searching the web, shopping at their favorite retailers and completing special offers. Swag Bucks are accumulated in a virtual account and can be redeemed online for instant rewards or gifts, including money, gift cards or apparel.

Instructions

Invite your friends and earn up to 1,000 Swag Bucks per referral. Click on the "Promote" button at the top of your Swag Bucks toolbar. Select one of the email options. The "Find Your Contacts" button will search AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, Plaxo or Outlook Express email accounts. Swagbucks will send an email inviting your contacts to register and earn Swag Bucks. Choose the "Enter Email Addresses Manually" button to enter your friends' email addresses and a personal message.

Earn 10 Swag Bucks for every free coupon you print and redeem at your local supermarket or drugstore. Choose the "Coupon Menu" button from the Earn category. Check the boxes of the coupons you want to redeem. Print them out, and redeem them at the store.

Earn points by playing Swag Bucks games. Review the wide assortment of online games, including Crazy Taxi, Crusher, Word Chain Plus and Hungry Snake. Click "Play Now" for the game title you like, and play for free. You are eligible to earn Swag Bucks for each game. You can also enter a tournament for a chance to earn big points.

Trade in your old cell phones, MP3 players, games, consoles and books for Swag Bucks. Choose the "Trade-In" button on the Swag Bucks toolbar. Look up your cell phone, game console, etc. Print a prepaid shipping label and trade-in receipt. Put your item in a shipping package, and mail with label affixed. You will receive Swag Bucks upon receipt of your electronics.

Find limited daily deals from local and national retailers. Earn points with each purchase. Select "Daily Deals" from the Swag Bucks toolbar. Review the most popular offers from Tippr, Groupon, Eversave, HomeRun and Mertado. Click "Continue" to be redirected to the deal website. Click "Buy Now" to input your credit card information. After your order is processed you will earn Swag Bucks.

Visual Basic LINQ Tutorial

LINQ, which stands for Language-Integrated Query, is a feature of the Visual Basic language that lets you perform queries and other operations on data sources. One type of data source is XML code, whose user-defined tags can be used as database fields. This tutorial allows the user to do a query of a simple XML data table. The user enters the title of a movie, which is formatted into a LINQ query. The query seeks the movie with the matching title and returns the director's name from the matching movie.

Before typing the program, you will need to set up a project in Visual Basic. Choose File > New Project > Windows Forms Application. In the Designer window, place a text box and a button on the user form. Double click the button control and add this code to the body of the Button1_Click event:

XLinqQuery(TextBox1.Text)

That statement calls a function that does the LINQ database query when the user presses the button on your form. Above the Button1_Click function, type the function:

Public Sub XLinqQuery(ByVal strMovie As String)

Dim myMovies = _

Star Wars

Excalibur

Dim query = _
From m In myMovies. _
Where m.Value = strMovie _
Select m

For Each result In query
TextBox2.Text = result.@director
Next
End Sub

Run the program by pressing "F5." In the text box, enter "Star Wars" and press the button. The program will query the database to find the director of the movie whose title you entered. After seeing "George Lucas" appear, enter a different movie title: "Excalibur," and press the button to see director John Boorman's name appear.

Refer to the function XlinqQuery, which does the database work. The mini inline database the LINQ query runs on is a piece of XML code. You can use LINQ to query other kinds of databases, both remote (online) and those stored on your computer.

The actual LINQ query is as follows:

Dim query = _
From m In myMovies. _
Where m.Value = strMovie _
Select m

Although its type is not explicitly given, the "query" following the Dim statement is a variable. The complete Dim query statement does not execute the query, it only defines it. The statement that actually executes the query is the following:

For Each result In query
TextBox2.Text = result.@director
Next

For each iteration of that loop, the result identifier holds the output of the query, which is all data in between the XML tags and , for one particular pair of those tags. The particular attribute we pull out of the result variable is the director attribute, though you could also choose @year_released.

You can learn about LINQ queries by tinkering with this program. Start by changing the movie database. Add more movies and directors--or change the database completely to reflect your own interests. Add your own fields--aka attributes--to replace the director and year_released fields from the movie database. Instead of searching for a database entry by its name (e.g., "Star Wars"), you can search by field/attribute. If you searched by the year_released attribute in the movie database, the Where clause in your query would look like this: Where m.@year_released = intYear. Here, the ampersand tells the query engine that you want to match on an XML attribute, as opposed to a value (e.g., "Star Wars").

How to Do SEO on a Website

The jury is still out on search engine optimization, or SEO, and its effectiveness in boosting your website's position in search results. Each search directory uses its own algorithm to determine how they rank pages, so you probably wouldn't get the same results among them. Before pursuing extraneous tactics such as back links, links from other sites to yours; and article marketing, posting high-quality articles with embedded links to your website on directories as a marketing device, perform some basic SEO strategies on your website.

Instructions

Launch the HTML or other text editor that you used to create and maintain your website. Open each page of your website and look at the header section of the page in code view. In Adobe Dreamweaver, click the "Code" button on the Document toolbar located above the page. In Microsoft Expression Web, click "Code" at the bottom of the page.

Locate the "" tags in the header part of the page. If they're missing, add them anywhere between "" and "."

Enter a title for the page between "" and "." For best SEO results, include your keywords in the page title near the beginning. Keep the title text fewer than 70 characters or it may get truncated by the search engines. When search engines display search results, the page title is the text displayed above the page description and is usually hyperlinked to your website.

Save your page and close it. Open the next page and repeat until all the pages in your website have optimized titles.

Launch your HTML editor. Open a page and switch to code view. Enter a meta keyword tag:

for varying versions of your keyword. Although many search engines ignore the meta keyword tag, it's a good place to put common misspellings, synonyms and alternate versions of your keyword that may be used by the search engines.

Enter a meta description tag on the next line:

for display in search engine results. The description you enter here is usually displayed below your page title in the results. Although search engines don't use metatags to determine search rankings, they help users click through to your website, according to SEOmoz.

Switch to design view in your HTML editor. Review the content of your page. Use your keyword phrase and several variations of it throughout the content. Some recommend that you should use your keyword phrase at least three times in your content; others advise you to include it more often.

Use descriptive anchor text for internal linking. Some search engines place weight on link titles, so you may also want to include this.

Anchor text with keyword phrase

Add "alt" values to all of your images that include your keyword phrases:

picture of keyword

Rename your pages to be more descriptive and include keywords. Proceed with caution so that your software maintains the link structure of your website, avoiding broken links.

Use static URLs, if possible, rather than dynamic URLs that contain a lot of gibberish. Use hyphens to separate words rather than an underscore, plus or space.

Create folders for similar content using keywords, if feasible, and move pages to these folders. This works best on a new website that the search engines have not yet indexed.

How to Start an Online Christian Book & Gift Store

Online Christian gift and bookshops have the advantage of selling directly to consumers so there's no overhead to worry about when you set up your business model. Product choices? The sky's the limit; you'll be able to choose merchandise from hundreds of companies manufacturing gifts and books guaranteed to delight everyone from pure evangelical to not-so-much. Keep a pulse on what your best customers are buying once you launch your site and you'll always know what to stock---now and in the future.

Instructions

Write a business plan for your online Christian gift and book business. Include a mission statement, goals and objectives. Figure out how much money you can afford to invest in your start-up and apply for a business loan if you haven't enough cash to launch and operate for six months. Set up an accounting system by purchasing an easy-to-use software system for the job.

Study other online Christian gift and booksellers to see what they're selling and at what price points. Get a good indication of what's moving by items featured on their home page and landing pages. Collect samples of great-looking websites (not necessarily Christian-based) to give your web designer an idea of what you like and what you don't.

Hire a website designer. Request at least one home page, five landing pages and two drop down tabs beneath each landing page. Title landing pages to assist shoppers searching for Christian gifts and books. Consider: About Us, How to Order, Gift Suggestions, Book Suggestions and Seasonal Specials. Under Gift Suggestions and Books Suggestions, assign one tab each to adults and children. Use the Seasonal Specials to introduce new product or cull bloated inventory. Urge your designer to pull out all stops on your Home Page so visitors are dazzled.

Choose between launching a site that's available to anyone surfing the Internet or request one that requires a password to enter. Check with your web designer to see what accommodations he or she is building into your site that may require the latter if that's the way you'll capture data about who is visiting, what they're buying and other types of marketing information.

Affiliate with credit card companies so shoppers can pay for their Christian merchandise the easy way. Offer options of telephone and mail orders, too; not everyone is comfortable ordering on line. Collect information from credit card orders to build a database and use it for future sales material e-blasts.

Outline your shipping policies. Compute handling charges you'll add to shipped merchandise based on the supplies and time required to do the job (e.g., cushioning material, outer boxing, labels, tape and labor). Handle the fulfillment end of your Christian gift and book business on your own or contract with a warehouse to stock and pack merchandise on your behalf.

Join a trade organization to keep track of Christian giftware and book trends. Find like-minded retailers all over the world via your membership and enjoy benefits like newsletters, networking, trade shows and professional advice from those who are literally are walking in your shoes.

Looking for a Job in Canada

Looking for a job can be a hassle, unless you know where to do the best search possible. In Canada, there are several ways you can do a job search, and if done carefully and with some thought, you should have no trouble looking for a job.

Instructions

Search online. Job search sites for Canada include Workopolis, CanadaVisa, Eluta, Find a Job Canada and AllStarJobs. Workopolis and Eluta offer keyword searches as well as search by type and area. Find a Job Canada lets you look by type and location, while AllStarJobs lists by area and then groups all of the listings for that area in one place. Canadavisa is a service by immigration lawyers that includes a job search option for different types of jobs and areas, as well as advice on getting work visas and other immigration-related issues.

Check the job classified listings in a newspaper. Most of the larger daily and weekly papers will include regular postings for available jobs. Choose the city you wish to job search in and then pick up or read online for a recent newspaper from that city. Job ads will be separated into types, so you can easily find work that you have the experience, knowledge or interest to apply for.

Contact an employment agency. Some agencies work in just certain areas, while others cover larger parts of Canada. You can online or in the phone book under Employment Agency. Companies like Roevin and Aerotek specialize in job placement for businesses looking for employees skilled in engineering, skilled trade and technical jobs. Others, like Randstad Canada and Spherion, are staffing agencies for both temporary and permanent job placements. Be sure to ask what kind of candidates they are looking for when you call to set up an appointment, so that you don't go in expecting to find you a job when they don't place people with your skills set.

Go door to door. This is one of the oldest methods of finding a job and can still work for you. Once you have chosen the area you are interested in working in, look through the phone book for the businesses that you are interested in working for or match your skills set. Then go to each one and personally drop off a resume and cover letter. Don't be too pushy when you walk in, because that could leave a bad impression with the very people you are hoping to impress. Instead, ask if they are hiring or taking resumes, and then leave your resume for the person in charge of hiring.

Check out the Human Resources and Social Development Canada organization. This group gives information on where to look for jobs, how to look for jobs, who has recently hired people with your skills, and laws and regulations regarding employees and job seekers in Canada. They can tell you how to improve your resume, work on your interviewing skills and how to dress to impress.

How Do I Get the Remote Desktop Connection Icon in Accessories?

Windows 7 and Vista include a search function built into the Start menu, allowing you to type a single keyword to browse directly to the program of your choice. Windows XP does not have this function, however, making it necessary to browse through several menu folders to access utilities such as the Remote Desktop Connection software. Place the Remote Desktop Connection icon in the "Accessories" menu to make it possible to browse to the program more quickly.

Instructions

Click the "Start" button, then go to "All Programs," "Accessories" and "System Tools." If you do not see the "Remote Desktop Connection" icon here, proceed to Section 2 which details the process of creating a new shortcut.

Click and hold the mouse button on "Remote Desktop Connection." The icon can now be moved freely with the mouse.

Hold the mouse pointer over the "Accessories" menu, which should still be visible. A solid black line indicates where the Remote Desktop Connection icon will be when you release the button. Release the button to move the icon when you are happy with its new position.

Click the "Start" button, then click "My Computer." Browse to "C:" in the My Computer window, then double-click "Windows" and "System32."

Right-click "mstsc.exe" and click "Copy."

Click the "Back" button twice to return to the root folder of your hard drive.

Double-click "Documents and Settings," the folder with your user name, "Start Menu," "Programs" and "Accessories."

Right-click in an open area of the folder and click "Paste Shortcut." A new shortcut called "mstsc" will appear in the folder.

Right-click the shortcut for "mstsc" and click "Rename." Name the shortcut "Remote Desktop Connection" and press "Enter."

Close the window and browse to the "Accessories" folder on your Start menu. The Remote Desktop Connection shortcut will now be present.

How to Put My Music Into a Search Engine

The first step in getting your music into a search engine is to let the search engine know where your music can be found. This involves uploading your music to a website, and then optimizing that website to make it search engine friendly. This process is known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). To follow the steps below you need only a basic knowledge of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and a website registered with a web host provider.

Instructions

Create a copy of your music file, giving it the same title as the name of your song.

Upload your music file to your website using any free FTP software.

Create a new page on your website with the name of your song as the page title.

Write between 200 and 300 words about your song. This is the content of your web page. Put the name of your song in the first sentence and somewhere in the middle. Putting your song name too often may be seen as "keyword stuffing" and could cause your page to be ignored by the search engines.

Include a hyperlink to your music file at the end of the last paragraph about your music, using the name of your song as the clickable link. For example, you could write, "Here's a free download of my rendition of 'Blackbird'." The word "Blackbird" would be the clickable link to your song file "blackbird.mp3". This tells the search engine that your page is relevant to the name "Blackbird".

Copy the first two or three sentences of your web page content. Paste these sentences into the "description" meta tag of your website. This tag is located in the top of the HTML code of the web page between the "head" and "/head" tags.

Write the name of your song in the "keyword" tag of the page located in the top of the code, usually beneath the description tag. Use your own name or the name of your band as the second keyword, using a comma to separate the keywords.

Edit the home page of your website by adding a hyperlink to the new page using the name of your song as the link to that page.

Go to the search engine web page where you want to list your music and submit your website if it is not already listed. Links to the Google and Yahoo! submission pages are listed in the Resources section below. Most web pages listed by Google and Yahoo! are automatically picked up by other search engines. If your website is already listed, there is no need to resubmit your web page.

Wait several days, then go to the search engine and type the name of your website and the name of your song into the search field. It may take up to a couple weeks for your website to be listed if it is a new website, or if you do not update your website frequently.

Type the name of your song in quotation marks into the search engine once you know your website is listed. Then scan the listings for your web page to see how well your song ranks in the search results.

How to Write CGI Scripts

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is not necessarily a programming language, but more of an intermediary function in website design. To use CGI, you should be experienced with HTML and have a working knowledge of PERL. The reason you need to be experienced in HTML is that CGI scripts only collect data and send it to the server. In other words, you will create HTML files for collecting that data, and the CGI script prints out that data according to instructions.

Instructions

Download Notepad++. The reason for this is that Notepad is a good way to learn and memorize coding and programming rather than having programs such as Dreamweaver do the work for you. Once you are experienced, using Dreamweaver (or a similar program) can be faster. However, if you do not understand what is being produced, you would not know where to look for the problems. So, it is advised to start with "hand writing" your code. Notepad++ takes Notepad further and gives it capabilities that help programmers and web designers. In this program, you will be able to choose what language you are writing in, and different sections of code are colorized to represent proper format.

Open Notepad++ and type: !/usr/local/bin/perl. This is the first line to every CGI/PERL script you will write. The hashmark () denotes a comment. You will use comments often in your larger scripts to keep track of what is happening. /usr/local/bin/perl is the path to your CGI/PERL functions. If you are using a server online, then ensure that this path is correct with your host. It is a default path, so 9.9 times out of 10 this can be left alone.

Hit enter twice so that there is a blank line in your code. Then type: print <
or

in HTML. However, the line of code you should have copied was not the very basic function. Notice < 4

Hit enter once and type: Content-type: text/html. This is self-explanatory. It is telling you what type of content the CGI script is going to produce. In HTML, you have document type at the top of your file. This is the same thing. At this point you can relax ... you are going to go back to good old fashion HTML.

Remember that you must have a blank line between your header and functions. So, again, hit enter twice. Then type:My First CGI Script

Simple CGI

Through the use of HTML, this CGI script will print whatever I type here.

Hit enter one more time and type: EndofHTML. You know what that is, right? I thought so. It is the closing tag to those multiple lines of HTML, and now the CGI script knows that it can print everything you have typed there. Yes, this does include styling, headers and anything you can do in HTML.

Save your file as mycgi.cgi.

Upload your CGI script to your web server. You may put it in your cgi-bin, but it is not necessary. When you become more experienced with CGI and develop complex scripts, it will be necessary to put those scripts in the cgi-bin. So, getting in practice of doing so is beneficial. If you do not have a web server to upload to, then a local server will work. Follow the link to the XAMPP homepage and install XAMPP on your computer as a local server for testing scripts. This is a key program for many web designers and programmers.

Call your CGI script through your browser by going to: http://yourwebhost/mycgi.cgi or - http://localhost/mycgi.cgi (if using a local server).

Understand that it is beyond the scope of this guide to give you complete and detailed instructions on how to write CGI scripts. Many resources on the Internet have tutorials on this subject. Searching Google with keywords relating to exactly what you wish to learn is preferable. Almost all CGI scripts will follow this basic format. Advanced education in CGI will allow you to insert other functions, such as variables and arrays, which will allow you to use CGI to collect information from form submissions and print them to a server or email them.

How to Create a Free Store Online

Today, it's important to have an online store if you're selling goods and services and need to grow your business. You should consider how you'll handle online purchases, shipping/delivery, and secure shopping when you're creating an online store. An ecommerce store can be pricey, depending on your merchant account (for credit card transactions) and the number of products you're selling. However, it is possible to create an online store with less money by using a free store creator, so you can be up and running in no time.

Instructions

Create a free store online through a service such as eCrater.com by signing up for an account. You'll receive a free sub-domain name for your online store, such as www.yourstore.eCrater.com. You may, however, purchase a domain elsewhere (such as with a web hosting company) and forward your sub-domain to it.

Click on the "Sign Up" button to begin. You'll need to enter a unique store ID, password, contact name, address, phone number and an email address. Select "Continue" to proceed. An email will be sent to the address you've indicated.

Check your email to retrieve your eCrater activation link and confirm it. Now, you can administer your account from here. You may create your store right away or do so later by logging in with your store ID and password (through the website) when you're ready.

Start with the Navigation section in the left pane. Select "Texts & Colors" to choose your color template, logo, home page image, text and FAQ information for the free online store.

Edit the text for each page, such as your home, about us, contact, terms and conditions pages by selecting "Edit Texts" under "Texts & Colors." You may also add a title tag, Meta tag description and keywords for your ecommerce store.

Set up a basic store by going to "Basic Set Up" in the navigation. Then choose your payment options, such as Google Checkout, PayPal, money order, cashier's check, personal check, etc. You may also set up your products and categories for each item under this section.

Go to "Shipping & Taxes" in the navigation to set up shipping and taxes.

Go to the "Account" section to choose additional options for your free online store, such as orders, widgets and eBay imports. Here, you can also make your store active or inactive.

How to Twitter

Twittering is all the rage. Whether you are interested in making friends on the internet with like minded people, promoting your business or promoting your website, or just keeping up with the news and technological changes, Twitter is an excellent option for making friends on line and Twitter is fun!

In a very short time you can make friends with people all over the world with this interactive, internet tool. It's easy to get started on Twitter. I will show you how to get up and running on Twitter in no time.

Instructions

Getting started making friends on Twitter is easy. First, open up your internet browser and type in http://www.twitter.com You will arrive at Twitter's home page. Up in the right hand corner you will find a link to a video that will explain the basic concept of Twitter if you're a video watching kind of person. If not, just plunge in and take the next step to launch your Twitter career.

Twitter's home page contains only the bare necessities, so don't worry about being overwhelmed with information. You might even think you've come to the wrong site! Right beneath the blue triangle with the tweeting bird you will find a green square that is a link: "Get Started -Join". Click! and you're off to Twitter Land.

You'll be asked to enter your full name, create a username (it will become a part of a URL to use as a link to your twitters, so pick something you like). Next create a password, add your email address, opt in or out of email alerts, type in the magic word for verification purposes, click "create account" and you're on your way. You are officially a Twitter member.

The next step allows you to find friends who may be on Twitter using your email address(s). Find friends on Twitter through your email accounts, such as Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail and MSN accounts or skip the step and go on. You can always come back to it later. Twitter will give you a list of people among your email friends who have Twitter accounts. You can select those who you would like to follow on Twitter from this list.

Now you're set to Twitter and make friends on the internet. To make friends check out my eHow article: How to Make Friends on Twitter. You will also find advice on how to create an attractive home page in another eHow article about Twitter.

How to Create an Anchor Link in WordPress

WordPress has two design views you may use when writing a new post. The Visual Editor displays everything in your post as it will appear when you publish it. Images, font colors and styles and anchor links all show up in a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" fashion. The HTML editor does not show these kinds of formatting, but instead reveals the HTML code that browsers interpret. You may include anchor tags in a WordPress post using either editor, but how you include one is different depending on which you choose.

Instructions

Type your post. Click and drag the text that you want to turn into an anchor link to highlight it.

Click the "Insert/Edit link" button (the one with the image of the chain link), or press "Alt+Shift+A" to open the dialog box to insert links.

Enter the URL for the website you link to in the "Link URL" text box. Click the "Insert" button. WordPress changes the color of the selected text to blue and underlines it to indicate it has an anchor tag.

Finish typing your post, then save and publish it.

Type your post. Click the button that says "link" to open a message prompt.

Enter the URL for the website you link to in the text box. Click the "OK" button. WordPress will insert the HTML code to create an anchor link.

Type the text that you want to use as your link text immediately after the ">" symbol. Click the "/link" button and notice that it now has a slash preceding it. WordPress inserts the closing anchor tag, "" to specify the end of the link.

Finish typing your post, then save and publish it.

How to Change the Default Comment in MS Excel

Comments are notes that can be tied to a cell in Excel. Comments may be used as a reminder of how a formula works or what information is bundled into a cell, or even to ask questions or make suggestions as part of reviewing a workbook that is shared with other users.

The comment boxes in Excel have many preset, or default, parameters. Those parameters include: user name, font, alignment, shading and borders, size, protection, properties and web effects. These parameters can be quickly and easily changed to meet the user's needs and desires.

Instructions

To change the username, select "Tools" from the main menu (generally found across the top of the Excel worksheet). Select "Options" from the drop-down menu that opens. A pop-up window opens; select the "General" tab. In the box labeled "User Name," type in the desired name. This is the name to which all comments on this workbook will be attributed.

Use the "Format Comment" pop-up window to change the other parameters of the text box . Right-click on the cell that contains the comment. A drop-down menu opens; select "Show/Hide Comment." Place your cursor over the edge of the comment box and right-click. Select "Format Comment" from the drop-down menu that opens.

To change the comment text font, navigate to the "Format Comment" pop-up window as described in Step 2. Select the "Font" tab. Make desired changes to the font, font style, font size, font color and font effects. Click "OK" to save the changes.

To change the comment text alignment, navigate to the "Format Comment" pop-up window. Select the "Alignment" tab. Make the desired changes to the text alignment, the orientation of the text and the text direction. Click "OK" to save the changes.

To change the comment box lines and colors, select the "Colors and Lines" tab in the "Format Comment" pop-up window. Make desired changes to the fill (the color of the inside of the comment text box) and line (what type of border will be around the comment text box). Click "OK."

To change the comment box size, select the "Size" tab in the "Format Comment" pop-up window. Make the desired changes to the height and width. Click "OK" to save the changes.

To change the protection of the comment box, select the "Protection" tab in the "Format Comment" pop-up window. Change the status of the comment from locked to unlocked, or from lock text to unlock text, by placing a check mark in the appropriate box. Click "OK" to save the changes.

To change the comment text box properties, select the "Properties" tab in the "Format Comment" pop-up window. You can use this tab to determine the positioning of the comment text box. "Move with Cells" means that, if you copy and paste cells, the comment will be copied and pasted as well. "Size with cells" means that, if you change the size of the cell (row height), the comment size will change as well. Click "OK" to save the changes.

To change the comment text box margins, select the "Margins" tab in the "Format Comment" pop-up window. Make the desired changes to the left, right, top and bottom margins of the comment text. This affects the comment and the user name to which the comment is attributed. Click "OK" to save the changes.

To change the comment text box web functionality, select the "Web" tab in the "Format Comment" pop-up window. If you are linking this workbook and its comment to the web, you can insert alternative text that is viewable by users when the image of the workbook or comment is not available. Click "OK" to save the changes.

List of Photo Storage Sites With Search Features

Photo storage websites enable users to create an account and upload images to an online database. This database stores your photos for an indeterminate time. The storage is generally free, though some sites charge for higher storage amounts, or require a minimum annual purchase of prints or related products. Several photo storage sites have a search feature that allows visitors to locate certain photos in their database, or on public display within the site, by keyword.

Flickr.com's free storage site is primarily used for photography, rather than clip art or graphics, and is often used by photographers to display their portfolios. The search feature is displayed on the homepage. Enter a keyword and click the blue search button to start your photo search. Your results will appear on the next page.

Photobucket.com has a diverse storage database of personal snapshots, photography, photo manipulation work, clip art, videos and graphics. When searching for particular photos based on keywords, you will also get graphics, clip art and other types of images in your search results. Hosting here is free. You can choose to publicly display your albums or allow others to view them via password.The search feature is located on Photobucket.com's homepage, on the right-hand side. In the "Search" drop-down menu, there are various categories you can search through, such as people, videos or images.

TinyPic.com is a free storage site designed for quick navigation. Type your search term into the search box at the top of the homepage. Choose a category for your search from the drop-down menu, such as "Videos" or "Images". The website also has a "Favorites" section where you can quickly save your favorite images or videos. Clicking "More Sites" from the search results page will give you image search results in a new window from PicPoke.com, another photo hosting website that is affiliated with TinyPic.com

How to Check Web ACL Settings When Access is Blocked After DNS Lookup

Juniper SSL VPN devices can allow access to an organization's internal resources over the Internet. Configuring this access is a multi-step process. Once the DNS settings are configured, computers that attempt to connect to the Internal applications are given the correct IP address, but their attempts to connect are blocked. This occurs because Juniper SSL VPN devices require Web ACL, or access control list, configuration before they'll allow access to the internal resources. The Juniper VPN SSL device blocks all incoming traffic unless it's explicitly allowed. Only system administrators can fix this network configuration problem. If you're an end-user seeing this error message, contact your system administrator.

Instructions

Click "Resources Policies," "Web" and "Web ACL."

Click "New Policy."

Type a name for the policy into the "Name" box.

Type the DNS name for the resource you want to allow access to in the "Resources" box. For example, if access to "mail.internal.com" is blocked, type "mail.internal.com."

Click "Policy Applies to All Roles" or click "Policy Applies to Selected Roles," click one or more roles in the list of available roles and click "Add."

Click "Allow Access."

Click "Save."

How to Make a Word Search With Microsoft Excel

Word searches, also called word finds, are games that require you to find a list of words that are hidden within a seemingly meaningless jumble of letters. Word searches are appropriate for all ages: younger children can find short words within a small grid of letters, while teens and adults can find complex words in large puzzles. Word searches are typically completed by just one person, but you can print out multiple copies of the same game and have a group of people compete to see who can find the words quickest.

Instructions

Make a list of the words that you want to appear in your word search. The number of words should correlate to the size of the word search: larger grids can contain more words than smaller grids. Relate the words to a common theme such as animals, colors or family members.

Open Microsoft Excel. Select the rows and columns that you want to appear in your word search by clicking in box A1, holding down the mouse button, and dragging the cursor to highlight other boxes. For example, select boxes A1 through Y25 to make a square 25-by-25 word search.

Click the "Home" tab and select "format" under the "cells" section. Click "column width" in the menu and type "2" in the box that appears. Click "OK." While the cells are still selected, click the "center text" symbol under the "alignment" section.

Type the words from your list into the Excel spreadsheet. Type one letter per cell and make words read in the vertical, horizontal and diagonal directions.

Type random letters in the remaining cells. Type fragments of words that already appear in the search to make it harder to find the real words. The word search is completed as soon as you fill all the cells.

Format your word search. You can select all the cells (as you did in step 2) and put a border around the word search by right clicking and selecting the "borders" button from the menu that appears. Change the style of the letters by selecting the cells and selecting a new font, size or color in dropdown menus under the "font" section. Type the search words from your list in step 1 below the grid of letters or on a separate page.

Print your word search or email it to friends or family. Print multiple copies if you are playing a game as a group or if you are a teacher who has prepared this word search for students.

How Do I Change My Title Tags on My Website?

Website owners who create a website must consider the title of the website. A website title is important because search engines use website titles to scan sites for search results. Insert a website title into the header HTML code of a webpage between the title tags. If you decide to change the title tags of your website, you must edit the HTML code of your website and then replace the website code with the edited version of the HTML.

Instructions

Open your FTP program. If this is the first time you are using this program, enter the username and password you use to log on to your website domain host. Enter the host URL (the website you are editing) also.

Notice the left side of the FTP program contains files on your computer. The right side contains files uploaded to your website. Navigate to the webpage of the website with the title tag you wish to change.

Double-click on this webpage on the right side of the FTP program. Choose to open the webpage using a text editor such as Notepad.

Scroll to the Title tags at the top of the Notepad document. Between the Title and /Title tags, you should find your current title. Replace this title with the new title you wish to use.

Click File on the Notepad document and select Save.

Select Overwrite from the pop-up window that appears in the FTP program next to replace the old HTML code with the new code you just created.

Wait while the FTP program uploads the new code and replaces the old code. You should see a message indicating the replacement was successful.

Navigate to the web page with the changed title and click File on your web browser. Select View Source or Page Source to look at the HTML code of your web page. Make sure the title tag contains the revised title you just changed.

How to Edit Pictures with Glitter Text and Effects

You've seen them all over the Internet: photos with sparkling text, flashing hearts, borders and cool backgrounds. But how can you turn your personal photos into glittery art pieces? Here's how to create your own glitter photo free.

Instructions

Using Photoshop or any photo-editing program, resize your photo so that its largest dimension is 1000 pixels or less.

If you want your photo to look more stylish, increase the contrast. This will make faces more visible and will also make the photo easier to work with later.

Save the photo in either .jpg, .gif or .png format. The photo file must be less than 3 megabytes; if the file size is too large, decrease the dimensions (width and height) and resave.

Go to blingee.com and click the "Make a Blingee Now!" button. You will be prompted to upload your photo or to import it from another website. Enter the location of your photo file, and click the green button to upload. Within a few minutes, you'll be redirected to the Blingee Maker.

Start by choosing a background. Browse through the stamps and pick a pattern that you like. Click the pattern, and then click the "Paint Bucket" tool to the left of your photo. Now any area of your photo that you click will be filled with your pattern.

Add individual stamps using the blue "+" tool. Select a stamp from the list and click anywhere on your photo to add it. Pay attention to the order in which you add stamps: newer stamps will be layered on top of older ones.

Click the "ABC" tool to add text, or use letter stamps to post words on your photo.

Any modification you make can be removed using the "Undo" button or the red "X" tool. You can also change the appearance of stamps using the magnifying glass tool and the rotation tools.

Click the "Save" button when you're finished editing. Within a few minutes, you'll be redirected to the results page.

Add a title for your Blingee. If you want this image to be shared with the rest of the community, input a description and tag keywords. Click "Save" to continue.

You will be asked to sign up for Blingee. Input your information if you want to be part of the community, or if you want Blingee to save your images for you. Otherwise, press "Skip This Step" to continue.

You should now see your completed glitter photo. Use any of the buttons to post the photo on another site or download it to your hard drive.

How to Create an Elance Profile

Elance is a website where freelancers and companies can connect. Companies looking for freelance workers can post projects and receive bids. Freelancers in the fields of design, programming, Web design, writing, consulting, sales, marketing and other fields can register with Elance and bid on projects offered by companies around the world. Understanding how to create an Elance profile is the first step to a successful freelance career.

Instructions

Load the Elance website and click on the Sign In or Register link (see Resources below). In the pop-up menu, verify that I do not have an Elance account is selected and then enter your email address in the appropriate fields. Click on Continue after verifying your email address.

Select the I want to find work on Elance option and click on the Continue button. Choose your plan; the options are "individual" or "business." Most freelance writers will be creating an individual profile.

Compare the two account options, "Basic" and "Individual." "Basic" is free and "Individual" comes with a nominal monthly fee. It is best to start out with a basic account to get a feel for the site prior to committing to a recurring monthly payment. Click on Continue.

Enter your account information, including your desired username, password, address and contact information. Click Join Elance.

Create a tagline to include in your profile. Enter 5 keywords that exhibit the type of freelance work that you provide.

Enter a summary description of your work as well as a brief biography in the "About Us" section. Click on Save Your Profile.

Take and pass the Elance Admission Test. You must score at least 80 percent on the test in order to be accepted into the Elance system and finish setting up your profile. Upon passing the exam, you will have access to the remaining options in your profile.

Fill out the Skills, Employment, Payment Terms, Detailed Service Description, and Credentials section of the profile after passing the exam. You have now set up a complete Elance profile.

How to Create Professional Looking Business Cards

Business cards are useful tools for sharing information about individual or business services. Here is a way to create professional looking business cards.

Instructions

Start by writing on a piece of paper the information you want to present on the business card. Write down general contact information such as business title, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail or web sites. Near your business title try including keywords that describe the business services offered. You could also add an eye catching image or logo to the layout.

Open a new document in your word processing program and save your new project with appropriate title heading. Creating a file document and folder will help you find your project easier.

In the open document create a table with two columns. This could be done by clicking on the insert menu and clicking on the table icon in Microsoft Word 2007. Pressing the tab key will add more cells to your table. Adding space within the cell could be done by pressing the enter key or by simply stretching out the column borders using the ruler bar.

Once the cells are properly sized you could insert a table within the cell. Inserting a table will help organize the information that you enter within the larger cell.

Type the information that you wish to share from the paper layout into the inner table. Use the tab key to move to the next cell or press alt and tab simultaneously to move back a cell. Try using keyboard shortcuts such as (ctrl + Z) for undoing entries before saving.

Add an image or company logo in one of the cells in the inner table. To adjust the borders in the inner table just select the cells, right click and choose the appropriate command. The inner table borders could then be removed by right clicking and selecting borders and shading in Microsoft Word 2007.

When satisfied with the business card begin to copy and paste into the other empty cells. Select all the contents within the cell box and hold down the control key (ctrl) and the letter C to copy. Place your cursor in each empty cell and simultaneously press ctrl and the letter V to paste.

Once all the final edits are made to the cards select print preview and save the document. Print the cards on business card stock paper and cut precisely to create the professional looking business cards.

How to Use the Photobucket Forums for Help

New and old users alike should always stay abreast of what the Photobucket forums have to offer. In these open, online conversations, users interact with each other and the brains behind Photobucket to swap tips, share ideas and brainstorm. Knowing how to use the forums for help is key to a smooth Photobucket experience.

Instructions

Get yourself to the homepage for Photobucket (see Resources below). From here, be sure to log in to your account under the 'Log in' link. You will be prompted to enter your username and password.

Click the 'Help' link, then click the 'Forums' link.

Click 'Register.' You are prompted to enter your date of birth from the drop-down menu. Then click 'Proceed'.

Review the 'Forum Rules' and check the 'Agree' box. Finally, click 'Register' once again.

Enter the required information into the blank text fields. You will need to enter your email address as well as a username and password exclusively used in the forums. You are now authorized to use the forums.

Search the forums. You can search for keywords, specific users and threads or posts with a designated number of responses. Fill in the corresponding text fields and press 'Search Now.'

Check out the different types of forums before deciding where to post. Examples are 'Dos & Don'ts,' 'Graphics Only,' 'Photography,' 'New Features Zone' and 'Help for Those With Photobucket Pro Accounts.' All choices are listed in the drop-down menu.

Browse 'New Posts' on the main page of the forums. Often, these threads offer help for issues that users may be having trouble with, such as new policies, a change in the steps needed to perform a function or new capabilities that are still being refined.

Send and receive private messages. By specifying other members with whom you permit private contact, you can interact without the public accessing your conversation. Under 'Quick Links,' go to 'Private Messages.'

How to Keyword Ads for Google Ad words

Learning how to keyword ads for google ad words isn't really that hard. If you are already familiar with google ad word advertising then writing a key worded google ad words ad will seem like second nature. Once I explain how a keyword ad works your sure to increase profits with your pay per click campaign immediately.

Instructions

The first step in how to write a keyword ad for google ad word is understanding keyword advertising. A google ad word ad is put together by you, but is based on a specific amount of chosen words that will trigger your google ad word pay per click ad to display in search results. A key worded google ad word ad is a tad bit different as I will explain further.

Ok so you already have a keyword list of let's say 20 different words to use in your pay per click campaign for your google ad word ad. When you enter each word of your keyword list on Google they will tell you if each word on your keyword list is either poor or great for your google ad word ad. This means basically if the word will bring traffic for your pay per click ad for google ad word.

Next when using Google's pay per click search engine advertising you may notice that some of your words from your keyword list aren't showing your google ad word ads. In most cases you may have bid to low for that particular word from your keyword list. Some words truthfully will require you to bid more because of the competition for that particular word for your google ad word ads keywords. What can you do however if all you can afford is 50 cent or less to run your pay per click campaign and still be successful? You have to learn to write a key worded google ad word ads and learn fast.

The first thing you want to do is perform a search dealing with your service or product for your key worded google ad word ads. Let's say your company sells pay per click banner advertising. You should do a search for all words dealing with pay per click banner advertising for your google ad word ads. When you do each search notice all the words that appear on each page. Pay close attention to all the words that are in bold print. These will be the words that you will construct your key worded google ad word ads around.

It's much more than coming up with a slick or tricky pay per click google ad word ad that does nothing but gets passed up or one that generates ad clicks and no sales. You should be constructing your key worded google ad word ads around all the bold print that you see when you do a search.

Why? Because the more bold print a customer or searcher see's the more your google ad word pay per click campaign ads are inline with what they are searching for. Every key worded google ad word ad you create should have a minimum of 4 keywords in the ad itself.

There should be a keyword in the title of the key worded google ad word ad along with 3 other keywords in the text of the google ad word ad. If you have a domain name with which you are able to utilize a keyword too, all the better. Below is an example of a key worded google ad word ad so you may fully understand.

How to Keyword Ads for Google Ad Words
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In the example above there are a total of 8 keywords for this google ad word ad. If all you can afford in your keyword list for your google ad word pay per click campaign is 2 words. Then your key worded google ad word ad will have 8 bold words in it. The word - keyword & the word - ad. What this does for you is basically guarantee a click on your key worded google ad word ad because of all the bold words which are for sure, attention getters. All you have to do then is have your product waiting. Setup your Google Ad Word campaign today or if you already have one login now and make the necessary changes.

How to Turn Off Instasearch

"Instasearch" or "Instant Search" was a new feature introduced by the search engine Google in 2010. Instead of pressing "Enter" on your keyboard or clicking "Search" with your mouse to perform a Web search, Google would automatically search and display results based on the characters you had already entered into your Web browser. This feature can be disabled from the main Google page.

Instructions

Open your Web browser and go to the Google website.

Type your search term into the "Search" box. Because "Instant Search" is enabled, search results will immediately start to appear while typing.

Click the "Instant is On" link on the right side of the "Search" box. Click "Off" to disable "Instant Search" on Google.

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