Tuesday, February 8, 2011

February Spring Specials From Thunderbird

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Why Offer This?
. Most Everyone neglects their organization during Seattle's cloudy time .
. Backups that are not done.
. Files that are scattered.
. Monthly Maintenance undone or ignored.
. Questions unanswered, or researched.
. Mom finger wagging undone tasks.
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Promotions are recommeded for most businesses - this my first MailChimp promotion

Two Hours. You choose the Time. You choose the Place.
You choose the Tasks.
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Windows and Macintosh - A Free Database for Your Passwords

I got tired of losing my passwords and user names.
A few months ago, I created a database for my use.
I added and changed and updated it.
I have been using Filemaker for years. the advanced version allows you to create runtime databases that do not require a copy of Filemaker. You may have used one without realizing it was a Filemaker database.
If you would like to test version one The links below will download a zipped folder about 12Mb in size.
Folder is named PasswordsSerialsWIN.zip or PasswordsSerialsMAC.zip
The folder can be placed anywhere on your harddrive - even on a flash drive for easy transport.
Just do not remove or move anything in the folder. Within the folder just Click on "My Passwords" to start the database.
Any feedback would be welcome.

You can download the Windows version here
http://filemakerinfo.acme-help.com/downloads/PasswordsSerialsWIN.zip

You can download the Macintosh version here
http://filemakerinfo.acme-help.com/downloads/PasswordsSerialsMAC.zip

Mac OSX - Monthly Maintenance - Windows Reminder

Do your Monthly Maintenance Today
It is very important that you do this.

Check your Backups Today
Backups are important, but if you don't test them by retrieving a file or two, you DO NOT KNOW if they are working properly.

Build Your Web Presence - My Results

Two years ago, I had very little presence on the internet. A search for me would turn up an ancient website I did more than a decade ago.
Several clients asked about promoting themselves and their businesses on the Web.
After eight months of testing, learning, reading, researching and redoing, this is the result of a Google Search for "david anders seattle". I have to add seattle to the search because there is an actor using the alias of David Anders. His web presence overwhelms any search done just for my name.
http://www.google.com/search?q=david+anders+seattle
Eight out of ten links on the first page are my connections, blogs and websites.

There is a Madmimi Newsletter about expanding your web presence, your internet footprint, your standing in searches on Google, Yahoo, and Bing that I sent to some several months ago.
The second one is about claiming your business listings on these services. (Yes, your business liisting exists, claiming it and customiziing it costs nothing but some of your time.
Build Your Web Presence
Google Local Business

This is without paying for anyone's help or paying for listings.
You can do the same. There are 15 or 20 options that have appeared since I began the ressearch.
REMEMBER 15 to 30 year olds do not use the Yellow Pages.

I had most of the graphics ready. I did not have the layout or text prepared.
It took 2 hours on a Monday afternoon.
If I had had the layout and text prepared, it would have taken 15 minutes.
This is a test of the newsletter on Madmimi.com
(you can send unlimited emails to 100 hundred email addresses)
The goal is to send this through MailChimp.com - I haven't sent one from there, yet.
(you can send up to 12,000 emails a month to up to 2000 email addresses.)

This is my first MadMimi Newsletter (it's about sending MadMimi newsletters)
Send Fancy HTML Emails
Links to my other MadMimi Newsletters are listed below.

If you found this useful, you can forward it to five friends at the very bottom of this email.
You can Unsubscribe from any further Helpful Emails I send at the bottom of this email.
Thank you.
David
For Further info, just email me davidanders@gmail.com

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http://davidanders.wordpress.com
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

AllExperts Question and Answer

Subject: MacBook Pro 10.5.8

Question:
Ok I have a Mac Book Pro 10.5.8 and it seems that the Capacity is about 150 GB and the available (amount of space left) is about 54 GB. So my first question is, does "capacity" mean how much room is on the Laptop altogether excluding how much has already been used? As in, the amount of space that has been on the lap top before I even bought it.
and my second question is, since there is about 54 GB left, what am I suppose to do NOW to be prepared for when I run out of room? Buy another "Hard drive" or "Internal Drive" or what? I'm not too educated with this but than again I'm not completely ignorant with computers neither.
And my last question is, I'm planning to buy an External Hard Drive to back up everything in my computer, and I mean everything because my LIFE is on the Laptop, so what would you suggest is the best SIZE and KIND to get? People were saying 1 Terabyte, but if I only have 154 GB "Capacity" (and I'm assuming that's how much room is in the computer altogether) then shouldn't I only need an External Hard Drive of about 200 GB?

p.s. I would hope to get the cheapest yet not bad quality external hard drive.
Your answers are greatly apprecited! Thank you.!

ANSWER:
You can download Grand Perspective and it will show you graphically what and how big your files are.
If you download AppleJack, install and run it monthly, it will keep your hard drive in better shape and do a little to keep congestion lower.
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,150670/printable.html

When you attach a drive, Time Machine will offer to use it for it's backup destination. This is convenient and should be enough. Unfortunately, Time Machine can fail and need to start over.
http://www.macworld.com/article/155441/2010/11/timemachineallyouneed.html?lsr...

You can partition a hard drive into two or more separate partitions with Disk Utility in the utility folder in applications.
http://www.macworld.com/article/144115/2009/11/partition.html

Other World Computing is a good place to buy harddrives.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_Dock
I really like their VoyagerQ and the Guardian Maximus (look at the awards at the bottom)
http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/voyagerq/
(newegg.com is also a good place to find deals)
http://dealmac.com will show you the best deals on the net as of right now

Macintouch Forum about Backup
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html

A story about hard drive disaster
http://daringfireball.net/2010/03/ode_to_diskwarrior_superduper_dropbox

Your bootable hard drive is valuable it can be backed up with SuperDuper!
A free and very easy disk image utility (Carbon Copy Cloner also is good)

You can see my Backup Basics HTML Newsletter here http://mim.io/08d4

Backing up is good!! (I do file recovery and sometimes it is very sad)
David Anders
The Computer Guy, Seattle

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