Easy Steps To Finding Your IP Address

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I want to know the IP address that has been assigned to my Microsoft Windows XP computer. How do I find out what my IP address is without going all uber-geek?

Exporting MP3’s Using Audacity

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’ve been recording my daughter’s singing with Audacity, a great open source audio recording and editing app, and it’s fun and makes it pretty easy to chop and organize audio tracks. Problem is, I want to save the output as an MP3, not as a WMA file. but when I try to export the audio file in that format, it just pops up an error. How can I fix it?

Building A Windows Connection To A Mac File Server

Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

My computer network has an old Mac Mini running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), acting as a file and network printer server, along with a number of desktop computers running the newer version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. For those computers, everything’s fine, but when a colleague hooked up his Vista laptop, he couldn’t see the file server at all. How do I enable that?

How To Track Shortened Links In Twitter Posts

Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’m becoming a Twitter power user and find it a pretty simple way to broadcast information about my upcoming product sales and related. Problem is, I’m also curious about what information can be gleaned from the shortened URLs I have to use, including ideally some Google Analytics-like geographic data. Is that even possible?

Changing Your Gmail Password

Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I read your note yesterday about how to update my Facebook account password (see: How to change your Facebook password) and want to change my Gmail password, but I can’t figure it out: there’s no way to do so within Gmail, as far as I can tell?

How To Print An Entire Email Conversation In Gmail

Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I have been figuring out how to work with Google Gmail and it’s generally being going well, but I’m wondering if there’s any way to save an entire thread of email messages in a file? Plain text would be nice, a PDF would be awesome, but I could handle HTML too, if that’s my only option, Dave.

How To Transfer Your Domain To Another Web Host

Posted on August 17th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I registered a domain name through GoDaddy, but recently have been hearing some things about the company that make me want to move the domain elsewhere to ensure I don’t get into any sort of trouble with the company. How do I do that?

How To Contact Your Favorite Artist Online

Posted on August 4th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’m the Black Eyed Peas biggest fan and love all their work. I’d love to send them some email and tell them how great their songs are: how can I find an email address for the band or of Fergie, their amazing singer?

How To Disable Reply All In Google Groups

Posted on July 20th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’ve just set up a group for my church on Google Groups after having researched a variety of alternatives and so far, it’s going well. Except for one thing: whenever anyone responds to a message sent to the group, everyone sees it, not just the person who sent in the original message. This is driving some parishioners crazy. How can I fix it?

Redeeming Developer Promo Codes In iTunes

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’ve started reviewing Apple iPhone games and just had a game developer tell me that he’d like me to check out his game and sent me a promo code. I’m a bit baffled by this: how do I redeem a promo code for an iPhone application so that I don’t have to pay for the game?

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