Upgrading Wordpress is an important part of your security, yet many people put it off because it can be intimidating, even though they have step by step Wordpress upgrade instructions.
Well I’m here to tell you that it’s not that hard, and to prove it, I’ve made a short video tutorial available here - How to Upgrade Your Wordpress

I watch and listen to more than my share of online tutorials, both in audio and video format. I listen on my pc, and I take some for later on an Ipod, and there’s nothing I hate more than being unproductive.

There is an entire industry that does nothing except buy and resell expired domain names, and most of their inventory comes from grabbing the expired domain names of businesses just like yours.

Knowing these ten items below could save you hours of time & aggravation, and save your businesses hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

I found a code online that lets me add this feature to my Comcast remote.

What I liked most about my Dish DVR was the ability to press a button and skip forward 30 seconds in a recorded program. This feature allowed me to skip commercials, which was the main benefit to recording TV programs in the first place.

Even though I’m online 12+ hours a day, what I DON’T know about the Myspace community is enough to fill hundreds of pages.

Internet Consultant Mark Harris has written a book called My Space 4 Parents. In his downloadable Ebook, he includes six videos too, to help you understand all that he’s talking about.

Someone sent me this illustrated RAID example that I just had to share…

The RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) defintions below are from WikiPedia, and they’re pretty good…

There are number of different RAID levels:

You know how sometimes your computer gets all bogged down needs a reboot? I’m not talking about a spyware infested mess, I’m talking about a well maintained, virus free workstation, that just needs to be rebooted to “clear it’s throat” and let you get back to work.
I knew mine needed to be rebooted because it was sluggish even after closing everything. When I hit CTRL - ALT - DEL, to review the remaining running processes, my “explorer.exe” program was using over 130,000 k of memory.

To say “spam is out of control” is not really accurate, so let me give you some figures that will put it in perspective.

For my own domain pdxtc.com, August 2006 brought me these numbers…

• 19,306 total incoming emails (and we only have 9 addresses!)
• 16,209 were identified and blocked as spam before a human ever saw them

This morning I gave the “two minute tip” at the east Portland chamber of commerce meeting, and I provided the following handout with a short presentation. a few of the members knew Google “did other stuff” but  were surprised that there was so much available for free!
Everyone knows Google has a great search engine, but did you know about…

Why do I still get so many calls from people that have lost their domain names? Because business owners have businesses to run, and occasionally trust “little” things like domain registration to others. Some things are just too important to delegate.
Read this short article I wrote last year and you’ll never unwittingly lose your domain name… It’s called 7 things every business owner should know about their domain name

AOL cuts off the original email in it’s users replies, presumably to save storage space. This makes it impossible to tell what the AOL sender is replying to, and is generally inconvenient for all. This is especially true when the AOL user takes a few days to reply and you’ve forgotten the original subject or question.
If you regularly correspond with people on AOL, then you know the frustration that you feel as you sort through your sent mail folder, trying to figure out what they’re  anwering you about.

Jesse Black, of Yellow Crayon Computer Services submitted this tip below to the OCCA (Oregon Computer Consulatants Association) membership list. I also got a customer emails asking me how to fix this, so I thought I’d post Jesse’s tip below.

This is another reason why, on the West Side of Portland, I refer my all of my home computer repair and peer to peer networking phone calls to Jesse Black, at 971-645-1139. Tell him Scott sent ya!