After hours and hours of planning and developing, we’re proud to announce the release of the new HelpSpa.com forum. We decided to start a forum in order to streamline the process of requesting tutorials, and further facilitate discussions between the HelpSpa.com staff and our visitors, as well as among the visitors to the site. Please visit the forum and feel free to start posting and asking away immediately. Registration is quick, easy and free. We hope this new forum will act as an informative adjunct to the information already available on the HelpSpa.com main site, and we thank you again for visiting the HelpSpa.com.
Visit the forum at www.helpspa.com/forum.
After a long time in the works, the HelpSpa.com finally has its new look!. The most striking change is that we moved from a dark color base to a light color base. We’ve gone from a single-drop down menu, to a two-menu system. The first menu allows quick access to pages, while the secondary navigation lets you quickly get to the most popular categories. On that note, the listing of post in categories has been streamlined, and you will now find the posts listed alphabetically per category. Further, our sidebar has been expanded to show all of the available categories.
The home page has changed as well, as the home page now shows our two featured posts as well as a listing of the most recent post in our major categories. The fonts throughout the site have also been changed in order to improve usability and readability, and our social bookmarking quick links have been moved to a more accessible area. We also added a more prominent signup box for our monthly newsletter, in which you will find terrific computer tips, tricks, advice, and a list of our newest articles.
In all, we really like our new look and we hope that you do too. Let us know what you think — we’re happy to hear from you.
We all have our standard New Year’s resolutions every year. This year, however, I also have a list of some of my New Year’s Computer Resolutions. Here we go…
1. I will tag all of the digital photos that I have in Picasa. I thought about using Adobe Bridge, but after some testing, I believe that using Picasa is the best way to go. Plus, I find that Picasa is faster to use to get to and organize photos. Now I have to start deciding how many tags I’m going to have (And I will NOT also be geo-tagging 10,000 photos. I’ll leave that for next year.)
2. I will go through all of the songs I have in iTunes and I will make sure that all of them have proper information and tags. I will sort my classical music by classical genre, and I will go through all of my operas and add a “01-”, “02-” to the tracks so I can listen to an opera in the proper order (as opposed to in iTune’s alphabetical order). I will NOT, however, be re-ripping all of my CDs, even though they aren’t all encoded at 128kpbs. I just purchased the Brilliant Classics Complete Works of Bach, and I REFUSE to re-rip 150+ CDs.
3. I will purchase a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 scanner (the deluxe version that comes with Rack2Filer) so I can start to convert my life to paperless. No more papers and business cards everywhere! (I almost purchased a NeatDesk last year for the same purpose, but the Fujistu seems to be getting much better reviews). I will spend the first two months of 2010 convincing my wife that this is a necessary purchase.
4. I will replace my last traditional mouse with another Logitech TrackMan. Ever since I used my first Logitech TrackMan mouse, I’ve refused to use anything else. I still have a machine that uses a traditional mouse, and after this year, we will haev a “TrackMan-only” household. I may have to spring for the Cordless TrackMan.
So I think those four things are respectable and achievable aims for 2010. What did I miss? Or is there something even better I can do? What are your 2010 New Year’s Computer Resolutions?
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