Jerry Leventer

1996:Â The largest Internet collaboration, “24 Hours in Cyberspace,” took place.
1978:Â The proceedings of the United States Senate were first broadcast on radio.
1974:Â After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returned to Earth.
1971:Â The Nasdaq stock market index opened.
1922:Â [...]

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Here’s a tip that may be useful to those of you who have lots of programs installed and are using the Classic Start Button view.
When you select the programs list from the Windows XP Start button menu, are you unable to view all the programs?
There are two ways to solve this problem.
1) Temporarily set [...]

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Are you one of those people who still uses an Analog TV Set? Or, maybe you know someone who still has one. Starting February 18, 2009, anyone who does not own a digital TV, or who does not have a digital tuner for their analog TV set and who does not receive their [...]

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Have you ever wondered where Windows XP keeps all the Quick Launch Shortcuts?
Well, here it is:
Quick Launch Shortcuts
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
And here’s a handy list of definitions of Windows XP terminology:
Taskbar
The Windows XP Taskbar is the entire area that contains the Start button and the icons of all applications currently running on your [...]

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My .htaccess file contains code at the top for my wordpress permalinks, so I add the redirects below that.Here’s the Wordpress code along with canonicalization.

# .htaccess
#
# ————————————————————————————
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# - BEGIN - CANONICALIZATION
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# - END -
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# [...]

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Are you an Excel user? Have you ever wondered how to convert an entire column of plain text links into hyperlinks without having to double click each one individually?
Don’t look in the Excel Help files for this one, it’s not even mentioned there. The following code is exactly what you need.
Convert Selected Plain [...]

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I decided to give PopFile by SourceForge a try after seeing that About.com gives it a top rating. http://email.about.com/od/windowsspamfightingtools/tp/anti-spam.htm
I decided not to continue using it, however, since it wants to reconfigure all my account settings.
Also, it uses Outlook filtering to place the mail into folders. So you have to tell PopFile to mark each [...]

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I was looking on my hard drive for some of the free goodies I’ve downloaded and came across this one. So I thought I’d share it with everyone.
It’s the Webmaster Tools v3.0
Click this link to download now … Webmaster-tools-v3.zip
It unzips to an exe file which just runs on your desktop. You don’t [...]

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Forum Tech Tip: How to Link to a Post
The Problem
Let’s say you want to link to another topic posted in the forum as a reference to whatever it is you are discussing.
That’s easy to do.
But what if the topic thread is two or three pages long? How do you specify the exact location [...]

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