I bought the Cannon LiDE 200 scanner a few months ago and love it, so I thought I’d write a review. I still have an HP all in one FAX/Scanner/Laser combo, but it was such a hassle to scan things (the feeder is useless for old photos and jams most of the time) I went for a new model. The main use I have for it is scanning documents into PDF files, and also doing a lot of family photo albums to share with the rest of the family. It does both jobs very quickly and easily.
If you don’t know about Open Office, you’re about to save some money. This has been made since 2002 and is an open source clone of Microsoft Office with really all the features and functionality. It originally started as the Star Office Suite and has evolved into it’s current version. Sponsored by Oracle, tons of programmers have contributed to the project. The end result is
There’s a ton of plugins for WordPress to make life easier. I’ve tried a lot, and they don’t always work out or deliver. This week I’m going to cover the ones I use, and also explain what they do that makes them so handy. All of them are free, except one I purchased (and it was worth it). I’ll split this into two posts because there’s quite a few to cover, they are really worth using.
Optimizing your site or blog for search engine ranking isn’t that hard. There’s plenty of tutorials on how, but the thing that holds many sites back is their Google Pagerank. It’s kind of like a popularity contest, and the sites linking to yours with one way links (not to a site you link back to, Google can spot that and discounts it) determine how high your site ranks. Most people don’t have any idea how to get a high pagerank site to link to them, but there is an affordable solution.
Whether you’re in business or not, there’s thing called “check washing”. It’s where a thief drives around taking mail out of mailboxes, then they bleach any checks and rewrite them to steal your money. The solution to this source of identity theft
