How to Compress Images Without Affecting Quality
If you have your own blog, then you probably have run into the issue of having images that are too large in file size. Such images unnecessarily waste a lot of bandwidth, which can cost you a lot of money if you are running your own blogging platform such as Wordpress.org on a paid web hosting plan.
7 Useful Tips and Tricks for PayPal Users
PayPal is one of those online entities like Google that everyone knows something about. You may be surprised about what you don't know about PayPal, though. Whether you're using it to pay for purchases on eBay, to sell some things, or to run a full-blown online business, here are a few tips and tricks to help you get the most out of PayPal:
Easy Tech Support – Part 5: Finding Information
In this fifth and final part of the easy tech support series, the folks from Google focus on ways to find information on… you guessed it… Google. It may seem like a lot of self-advertising, but they present us with lots of different useful Google services that show up in specific Google searches.
Easy Tech Support – Part 4: Media
Various Google services are introduced, which can be used for digital media managing and sharing. For example Google Docs can be used to share large media files such as photos and videos to a group of friends or family. YouTube is another alternative for videos and Picasa is for photos.
Easy Tech Support – Part 3: Communication
In this post, most of the videos are centered around Google's email service, Gmail. However, most email services work in a similar way, so the videos would still be helpful for non-gmail users. For example, if you know someone that might be vulnerable to phishing scams, send them the video titled: "How to know if an email is real".
Easy Tech Support – Part 2: World Wide Web
If you have friends or family that know some computer basics, but would need help with the proper use of the internet, then show them the following videos. For example, you'd be surprised how many people don't know how to create a strong password, or how to shorten a long URL.
Easy Tech Support – Part 1: The Basics
Do you know someone that doesn't know much about computers or how to use them properly and always asks you for help? Well now you have a handy tool to help them out easily.
What to do when your WordPress update failed [Tutorial]
Yesterday when I was updating one of my WordPress blogs the automatic update failed and was stuck in maintenance mode. What to do when this happens? First of all, don’t panic! Your blog is not lost for ever, or anything like that. Even if you haven’t backed up your blog’s files and its database (like recommended by WordPress), it is still possible to fix the update fail issue in a few easy steps. Of course if you had backed up your files and database then you could simply restore them and try an automatic update again. In fact some web hosts will regularly backup everything for you. They also have…