How to Wrap Text in Excel: Microsoft Excel Text Wrap
Wrapping text in an Excel spreadsheet can be helpful with alignment and in making column headings more readable. Here’s how you do it:
1. Left-click in the cell where you want to wrap the text.
How to Copy/Move Pictures from the Verizon LG Vortex to your PC – (a Micro SD Card)
Q: I have a Verizon LG Vortex phone and I want to move my pictures off of my phone to my computer. How do I make this transfer?
A: There are generally two ways to get images off of your LG Vortex and on to your PC. Let’s look at each in turn (and if you are not comfortable doing these steps, call Verizon tech support. You don’t want to make a mistake and possibly lose data).
How to Insert a Screenshot into an Outlook 2010 Email
Inserting screenshots into an email is a great way to get your point across. Fortunately, Outlook 2010 makes inserting screenshots pretty easy.
1. Start composing your email and once you are in the body of the email (e.g. you’ve started typing the message), head to the Insert menu and select the “Screenshot” option:
2. Holding down the Screenshot button will give you a quick look at the open windows. To select one of these windows for a screenshot, simply click on the window you want to add:
While the image is selected, you will see some fancy picture border tools at the top of the screen to help you make the picture look a little nicer if you want some effect. Note also that you can resize this image by clicking on the image, and then dragging on the handles that appear at the edges of the image — in the image below look at the top left for a circle — this is the resizing handle. Note that to uniformly resize in the horizontal and vertical directions, hold down the shift key while you are dragging the circle).
3. Now if you want to create a custom screenshot, simply click where is says “Screen Clipping” (see the image in Step 2 above), and you will see crosshairs appear. The screen will go a little dim after a moment, and you will be able to click and drag the crosshairs to select a part of the screen that will become your screenshot.
So that’s one way to add a screenshot to Outlook 2010. Happy clipping!
How to Select a Single page with a CSS ID in Dreamweaver with a .DWT template.
Those of us familiar with Dreamweaver .DWT template files know their tremendous advantages, and their limitations. One of the difficulties with .DWT templates is that once you’ve setup a website using .DWTs, it can be difficult to pick out a single page based on a CSS ID tag. People often use an ID attached to a <body> tag in order to be able to select and manipulate an individual page for a particular purpose; but with .DWT”s, you can’t make different ID’s on the body tag.
The Solution is an Editable Header and <head> Tag.
While your <body> tag is likely consumed by the template, it’s very likely that your <head> tag has editable regions. If you are adding any kind of meta tags, you will have an editable <head> tag. So in order to take advantage of the <head> tag, simply add a <style> tag to the <head> area of the page in question, and you can then manipulate the CSS to your needs.
Let’s Look at An Example.
For example, let’s say you have an image with the ID “myImage” you want to display on every page on the website except for the “contact” page. Go ahead and add the image to the .DWT so that the image code propagates to all of your pages. Now in order to remove the image from the contact page, simply open up the contact page and add the following code within the header tag:
<style type="text/css">
#myImage {
display: none; }
</style>
What will happen is that the page will render and read the site’s main .css file. The browser will then read the above style code that you put in the <head> tag, which will override the site’s global stylesheet. In this manner, the image with the myImage tag will now be hidden on the contact page.
Summary
In order to apply CSS code to individual pages using Dreamweaver and .DWT templates, simply add a <style> tag with your overriding CSS code to the <head> tag of the page in question.
Digital Photography for Beginners: What is the ISO setting?
Along with aperture and shutter speed, a digital camera’s ISO setting is one of the three variables that you manipulate in order to adjust the amount of light hitting your digital senor.
What is Exposure?
Before you read this article, you may want to take a look at the exposure article first. When you are combining aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, your goal is simply to manipulate these three factors to reach a certain pre-determined exposure setting. By working with these three controls, you can reach your goal exposure in many different way which depend upon the creative demands of your situation. Because each factor — aperture, shutter speed, and ISO all have their advantages and disadvantages, you will want to change these settings based on the needs of your image — but understanding that ultimately you are still trying to work with these three settings in order to get to your desired exposure.
What is the ISO setting on a Digital Camera?
The ISO setting on a digital camera is simply a reflection of the sensitivity of the camera’s sensor. An ISO speed of 200 is a full stop higher than an ISO speed of 100, and is therefore a more sensitive setting for the sensor.
What this means practically is that with higher ISO speeds, your camera will take-in more of the light when you are taking your photograph.
Now you may ask, “well doesn’t aperture and shutter speed also change the amount of light the camera will take-in?” and the answer is “yes”. It’s critical to remember that ISO is just ONE factor in controlling how much light ultimately reaches the sensor, and getting the “right” amount of light is a function of understanding aperture, shutter speed, AND ISO and how they interrelate.
Problems with High ISO Speeds
The greatest problem with high ISO speeds is noise — or possible graininess of your images. When light hits your camera’s sensor, a certain amount of light is processed by the senor. When you increase the ISO setting, the sensor processes more of this light. As you ask the sensor to process more and more of the light (e.g. as you make your ISO settings higher and higher — 800, 1200, 1600, etc), the result is that all of the excess light can get difficult for the camera to process, so there is noise — or an added grainy texture to the digital images.
How to use the Camera’s ISO Setting
Most expert photographers will tell you that when shooting outside, you should use the lowest ISO settings possible (e.g. 100 or 200). They will also tell you that when you are shooting indoors or in lower light, to increase the ISO to allow the camera to get more light (recall the whole point here is that you want to get a certain amount of light into the camera to reach a certain exposure level). When you do adjust ISO, make sure you do it in small (one-stop) increments. So if at ISO 100 you don’t get the exposure you want, then try ISO 200, and then ISO 400. Don’t immediately jump from ISO 100 to ISO 800.
Ultimately ISO is just one of the three factors you need to consider when trying to get a particular amount of light you want to take your picture. Higher ISOs allow the sensor to process more light, but at the risk of more noise added to your images.
ISO is also important when you need a little extra “kick” for an image. If you have framed your shot at a specific aperture and shutter speed, and you just need to get a little more light in there, increasing the ISO can help you get that extra boost to get to the exposure that you want.
Digital Photography for Beginners: Start HERE – What is Exposure?
Exposure. Exposure is the essence of photography and digital photography and in my opinion, is the unifying concept in digital photography. Now this may sound like quite a proclamation to make, but I didn’t really start to understand anything about digital photography until I really understood the concept of exposure. Note carefully as I said the “concept” of exposure. Exposure is a straightforward concept to understand, but in practice it’s an art that like any other creative endeavor, is a difficult one to master.
What is Exposure?
Put simply, exposure is the amount of light that your camera will use to take a digital photograph, and this “amount” is usually set by your camera automatically. Taking this definition a step forward, when you go to take a picture, your camera automatically meters the scene and picks what it thinks a good amount of light would be needed to take the shot. Remember, the camera can’t know what you want out of a picture, but if you are outside taking a shot of some flowers in your yard, and you press the shutter button down halfway, the camera will guess as to what level of light it thinks will make for a good image. This amount of light is what’s called the exposure. So to recap, the digital camera automatically meters (checks the amount of light in the scene), and then picks an exposure level that it thinks is appropriate.
Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO
A lot of things go into the next step, that is, when you depress the shutter button and a picture is taken. Of the things that occur, the considerations of aperture, shutter speed, and your ISO settings are paramount. I will talk about these three variables in the coming articles, but here is the key take-home concept:
Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO all contribute to the controlling amount of light that enters your camera, and thus brings you to the proper amount of light to get to your determined exposure. You will learn later about the relationship among aperture, shutter speed and ISO, but realize now that the end-point is the metered level of exposure. You can vary any of the three settings (aperture, shutter speed, and ISO), but in the end you will still be aiming for this same level of exposure. Put a different way, you can think of these three variables as levers, which you can pull up and down in different directions in order to get to your exposure. These settings do have a relationship, so they do need to be in balance in order to get to the appropriate exposure.
Exposure is an easy concept, but understanding how aperture, shutter speed, and ISO work together to get to you your exposure is a little more tricky. In the next few articles I’ll walk you through each of these variables in turn, and in doing so the pictures of the relationship between these three factors and the exposure will become much more clear.
How to Add an Email Signature in Thunderbird 3
Adding a signature to your emails in Thunderbird used to be a pain in the neck. Thunderbird 3 makes it easy, and here’s how to do it:
1. Navigate to the Tools > Account Settings dialogue box.
2. In the Account Settings dialogue box, find the account you want to write a signature for (if you have only one account then your choice is easy) and click on the name of the account (in this example I clicked on “test@somewhere.com”).
On the right panel, about halfway down, you will see a “Signature text” box. You can click the button to “use HTML” if you wish, but either way you can go ahead and enter you signature text in this box. When you are done entering the email signature text press “OK” and you’re all set.
Note if you want to create different signatures for different email accounts in Thunderbird, simply repeat the above process for each account you have configured.
The Very Beginner’s Guide eCommerce Hosting Options
Selling your product online — whether it’s artwork, greeting cards, books or games — is an exciting but daunting proposition. In this article I’ll go over three very basic and general options to help point you in the direction of where to start looking in terms of getting your e-commerce store online.
Naturally you need to have a good product that you know that you can sell to people — so I won’t go over this aspect of eCommerce. So let’s talk about the basic options for getting started:
1) Hosted eCommerce.
Hosted eCommerce is the term used to describe a turn-key setup for an online store. You simply signup with a vendor (do a Google search for “hosted eCommerce”) and the vendor takes care of the overwhelming majority of the aspects of running your store. They will let you pick a nice template, handle the payment and payment processing for you, and will make it easy for you to upload your product images. These sites usually charge you based on how many products you have, or based on your sales volume. In addition to the monthly fees, these stores may also charge you a percentage of your sales or some kind of transaction fee. Lastly, when it comes to making a custom or very complex sales website design, hosted eCommerce can be somewhat limiting. Ultimately you need to take a look at hosted eCommerce websites to see what features these sites do and do not have, and then make a judgement for yourself. Also note that with some companies you will need have a web address such as mystore.website.com, as opposed simply to mystore.com. Lastly, hosted eCommerce solutions, in addition to handling the payment options as discussed above, will also usually take care of the security concerns such as encrypted connections with SSL (that’s the padlock icon you see in your browser when you are working over a secured or encrypted connection).
2) eCommerce software.
In the same way that Microsoft Word is software that’s designed to help you write things, eCommerce software such as OSCommerce is online software (you install it on a web server) that’s designed to help you run an online store. If you wanted to type a letter on your computer, you could call a programmer to write you a program that will allow you to complete this task — but it would be a heck of a lot easier and less expensive to simply go out and buy Word (or at least to use Notepad that comes with Windows [or Pages for the Mac crowd]). So while you could hire someone to write you a program that could help you run an eCommerce website, these eCommerce programs (such as ZenCart) are setup so that you install the software on your web host (or someone does that for you) and then you configure the software. You still will need to enter products, manage SKU’s and inventory (if you need to do so), and you will need to setup a payment solution (such as PayPal), but using software like OSCommerce or ZenCart can often times give you a little more flexibility than you have with a Hosted eCommerce solution. But when you are using eCommerce software, there are more things you need to keep track of — such as the web hosting itself and website security. Because of the complexity of setting up one of these programs, I’d recommend this solution for someone who has already proven success with Hosted eCommerce (or in the brick-and-mortar world — though success in phyiscal retail does not always translate to success in online retail) because if you are going to invest the time and money to get it right — you should already have an established base of sales to help you recover some of the costs.
3) WordPress as an eCommerce Platform, and “Add to Cart” Buttons to Sell a Limited Number of Items
For some people who are selling one or two products, and don’t need a full blown eCommerce infrastructure, WordPress can be a tempting solution. While WordPress is a blogging platform at its heart (like Word is a document writing program), it’s not designed to really do eCommerce. (If you’ve ever tried to layout a page in Word and position graphics you know what I mean. If you are going to layout a single page then you can get by with Word, but if you are going to layout a 100 page book with tons of images, you really need a dedicated desktop publishing program like InDesign). There are a few plugins (software additions) for WordPress that will help you sell products, but ultimately if you have one or two products that you want to sell, and don’t need a management tracking system (e.g. how hard it it to keep track of 10 sales per month by hand?) — then using PayPal with “Add to Cart” buttons is a great place to start. Without getting too techincall, the concept is easy. You go to PayPal and setup and account and then setup a product or two or three. For each product you setup, PayPal will give you HTML code for a button. You simply paste this code into your website and a button will appear to the user. The user sees your page, sees your item and your “Add to Cart” button, and then can press the button to begin to purchase your item. The cart is hosted at PayPal and the processing is done by PayPal. So you simply stand back and set it up so that when someone buys your product, you get an email from PayPal that a purchase has been made (and that you’ve been paid) and then you can go ahead and send out the item. It’s a little more complex than I describe above, but the above method is the simplest way to get your foot in the eCommerce door.
This article covered three ways to start selling your product online. There’s a lot of material out there to cover and I encourage you to do a lot of reading before you take any action. I hope this article provides you with some direction and as always, please feel free to ask questions is you have them. Happy Selling!
Once you install one of these programs (do a Google Search for “eCommerce sofware”)
Serious about eBook Security? Read the Five Requirements for a Protected E-Book
a guest post by John Abadi of FileSecurePro
eBook theft and intellectual property piracy is on the rise. It’s a lucrative activity that is nearly impossible to prosecute and thus provides ample motivation for an eBook thief. If you’re selling an eBook online, you need to be aware of how you can be ripped off — but also how you can protect yourself and your business.
Lets define an E-book thief as:
1) Someone who plagiarizes your work and/or resells your product to collect money from customers who believe they are buying from you.
2) A competitor who wishes to undermine your business and anonymously posts your product on a file sharing site where it can be downloaded freely.
3) A customer who buys your ebook with a stolen credit card resulting in a credit card charge back.
4) A customer who buys your ebook with the intention to ‘return’ it after making a copy.
If you are considering a protection solution for your eBook or sensitive documents, make sure it meets the following 5 requirements. And if not, KEEP LOOKING. A comprehensive ebook protection solution…
1.MUST prevent file access for unauthorized individuals, password sharing and illegal file distribution.
2.MUST prevent unauthorized copying reproduction of your PDF documents.
3.MUST prevent uncontrolled printing and redistilling of PDF documents.
4.MUST prevent access from refunded or fraudulent users.
5.MUST allow easy set-up and use, so as not be a hassle for your customers.
(For more details on these 5 requirements, see http://file-secure.com/real_protection.php)
Putting a watermark on a document is a great idea. BUT unfortunately on its own, this provides virtually no protection. Here’s why. Do you have the time to monitor the hundreds of file sharing sites like Pirate Bay to find your ebook ‘in the wild’? And once you find it, what do you do next? It’s nearly impossible to get a file sharing site to remove copyrighted material. And it’s probably a moot point anyway. Your intellectual property may have already been downloaded thousands of times and in the hands of your competitors or other thieves. You can’t un-ring that bell. And in the unlikely scenario that you can actually discover who the thief is, how do you go after them? What if they live in another country? You will need to hire a lawyer in that country to pursue it further. This adds up to a major waste of time, energy and money.
The takeaway is this: PREVENTION is the only real solution.
File Secure Pro (www.protectyourfile.com) was created to prevent this scenario from happening. Our customers are commercial ebook sellers, corporations, Internet marketers, private newsletter publishers, writers, lawyers, accountants, and health care providers who are required to be HIPAA compliant.\
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Abadi has over over 20 years in the software development industry and since 2001 has been active in the development and management of web based businesses. File Secure Pro which was founded in 2001 by Anthony Ellis after he suffered years of document theft and copyright infringement. To combat this, the File Secure Pro system was developed, allowing authors to securely distribute, monitor and control usage of their intellectual property. In 2005 File Secure Pro was made available as a commercial service and has been serving customers in the corporate, legal, distance learning and other industries needing intellectual property theft protection.
Please visit http://www.protectyourfile.com to learn how you can start protecting your information today.
How to Spell Check in Word 2010
Spell-checking in Word 2010 is as simple as clicking the “Spelling & Grammar” button — if you can find it.
1. To spell-check and grammar check in Word 2010, first head to the “Review” tab in the main menu:
2. Next just click on the “Spelling & Grammar” button:
3. The spelling and grammar check will begin and you should see a box like the one below as the spell checker finds something it wants to correct:
