Harmonious Wilbury's Tech Tips

How To Set Up Your Homepage in FireFox!

hwtech — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:20:40 +0000

So you want to setup your home page, to a cool site that you love. Okey! It’s easy and here is how you do it…

Now, you almost there… Just click on the Current button (if your on the great page that you love) and this will become your homepage. I use Tacoma.com, because I love the “Dad’s Jokes”, the local news feeds, and the weather and traffic reports etc, and so that is all there is to it..!!

Advanced Stream Hosting Customers–How to change your Account Name (User Name) in Outlook Express, for a domain based server

Harmonious Wilbury — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:50:46 +0000

Advanced Stream will be updating the Hosting Servers, and you need to change your login Account Name for email clients, like Outlook Express. Here is where you find the settings, and how to do it…

I love Skype…. My Cousin, Hap, just got it and here is a sample of how we used it today..

hwtech — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:03:51 +0000

My first Skype text message today, with Cousin Hap, who lives in Tacoma, Washington. He has been taking care of my cat, Sugar, while I’m traveling. Sugar is a wild cat that wondered down from the mountain one day, and has lived around the farm for a few years….

Anyway, Since I have been traveling, (up in Bhutan now), I have really learned to LOVE Skype, I can talk for free to my friends and family, and I love the instant messaging, and with Skype it is all free!!

Here is how we used it today (actual trascript..)

[4:18:19 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hey Hap, Now you have Skype!!
[4:18:29 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Now we can do Instant Messages!!
[4:18:37 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: How is my old cat Sugar doing?
[4:18:43 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: She is fat !!
[4:18:45 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: what?
[4:18:47 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: no way
[4:18:52 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: stop that!!!
[4:18:56 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: FAT?
[4:18:59 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: ohh.. that’s no good..
[4:19:08 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Please cut her off …
[4:19:27 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hap how could you let her get fat?
[4:19:21 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: She drinks too much beer!!
[4:20:23 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Ok, well that’s okey then. So, Please buy her one on me!
[4:21:41 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: I sure miss puttin down a pitcher of that ElkHead beer with you Hap
[4:21:48 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: hahhaahhaha, Good old days befor you went sober on me..
[4:21:58 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: Just memories now.
[4:22:05 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hey Did Sugar Bite anyone in the last year?
[4:21:21 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: Just Cousin Marion ..
[4:22:48 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: I pay her extra for that you know…..
[4:22:59 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: so don’t lie to me about this!….
[4:23:09 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: Really only one that I saw, and that was just Marion
[4:23:13 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Ahh…Good,
[4:23:17 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: then she can be fat (a bit), Okey…..
[4:23:19 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: LOL
[4:23:32 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: If she ever slacks,
[4:23:35 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Well, then, you let me know…
[4:23:49 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: ok
[4:23:59 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Back to the Farm for a few days…
[4:24:09 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: I think she likes the life she has here in the City.
[4:24:17 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hey Hap…
[4:24:26 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: Yah?
[4:24:39 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Please feed her some Johnny’s smoked salmon for me?
[4:24:49 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Sugar loves That Johnny’s Salmon!!
[4:24:58 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: You Got It HW!!
[4:25:10 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: And a cool glass of that good Buckley ElkHead Beer…
[4:25:29 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: Opening it right now ..
[4:25:41 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Gotta Run Hap, see ya!!
[4:23:57 PM] Hap Wilbuy says: Okay Harmonious, see ya later brother!! Thanks for Skype!!

I Went to the Mall… All from my Computer!!

hwtech — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:54:58 +0000

Hey Dad,

I wanted to get Mom her mothers day present, but since I am traveling, now up here in Bhutan, I thought I would try Tacoma.Com’s Shopping Mall page..…

Wow, what a joy!!

First I popped into the flower shop and got Mom this amazing arrangement,

Then, you know how Mom loves Reader’s Digest, so I grabbed a subscription from :

While thinking about what Grandma would like , I remember her love of wine, so I grabbed a few choice bottles for her right here..

Now, I was about done shopping, never left the Computer!! Then I realized this was the chance to get on my Mother in Law’s good side too, (I forgot about her last year), so I stopped over here:

and got her a fruit cake (can’t find that old one she gave me last year, so she get’s a new one!)

Then, to be sure she knows how much I love her, I went to

Petsmart and got her a pet Snake (Boa constrictor)..

still sold out of the big scorpions I’ve been looking for..…

Shop at PETsMART.com

Anyway, I know you love that Tabasco Dad, so check out:

Love ya, Give Mom a big kiss for me…

Harmonious

Spring Cleaning For Your Computer Hardware

hwtech — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:14:07 +0000

Spring Cleaning For Your Computer Hardware

by Harmonious Wilbury

It’s spring cleaning time! Here is how clean your PC..

CLEAN THE HARDWARE

Computer, monitors and keyboards do get dirty, (especially if there is a smoker in the house) First, use a cloth and remove the dust. Use multi-purpose cleaner to the wipe the surface.

I use glass cleaner on my monitor, but, don’t spray it on the screen, spray it on a cloth first.

Now, flip your keyboard over and shake it abit - to remove the crumbs and dust; or, you can vaccum it. If you want a spotless keyboard, use Qtips, dipped in alcohol to clean between the keys.

Also, checkout the bottom of your mouse. If it’s an optical, clean off whatever dirt has build-up with a Qtip. If it’s a ball, open it up and wipe the ball and the slot.

Do vaccum the ventilation slots for your case too, especially the the fan on back. All kinds of dust accumulates there. To clean the inside of your computer, use a compressed air spray can and blow the dust out. This can be messy, so you watch out.

YouSendIt.com !! What a great site…

Harmonious Wilbury — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:26:48 +0000

This is a great site, to help you get around email file attachment limits.

Just enter the email address of who you want to send your file to, and they will have up to 7 days to download the file.

YouSendIt.com will let you send 100 megs for free, and you can pay to have up to 2 GIGS of file transfer.

http://www.yousendit.com/

Try it out!!

Harmonious Wilbury

Tip OF THE WEEK for Windows– change your mouse pointers

Harmonious Wilbury — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:27:06 +0000

If your bored, and have Windows XP, you can change your mouse pointer.

The animated ones are fun!!

Open Control Panel, then open the Mouse applet.

Sselect the Pointers tab.

There is a dropdown list of all the schemes there.

Check out the mouse pointers!! Not all are animated, but click on the one you like.

Fun!!

HW

Free printable Graph Paper!! Also Signs and templates - I Love it!!

Harmonious Wilbury — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:12:32 +0000

Here is a great site… I needed some graph paper, and was about to go the office supply store to get some, when we found this super duper site!!

They also have recipe cards, shopping lists, all sorts of great signs..

Check this one out and bookmark it!

http://www.paperprintout.com/

I liked that phone message template and those gift tags -for either Christmas or birthday presents!! Very neat site..

HW

Laying out a floor plan!! Online

hwtech — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:43:14 +0000

I love this site…

This is a SUPER COOL free Flash application that allows you to plan the layout of your rooms. You can move the furniture around with your computer, and plan ahead. There are all the elements for a living room, bedroom, dining room, and more. Pick your room type and style (traditional, contemporary, country), then just drag, drop, resize, or rotate the furniture. It’s really fun. You can even put people in the chairs, and cats on the desk…. You can resize walls, windows, or doorways -making your virtual room befor you ever need to sharpen a pencil. Something new!! Bookmark this one. Harmonious Wilbury

http://www.jordans.com/roomplanner.asp/

Tip of the Week!! Customize My Computer -in the Start Menu A TIME SAVER!!

Harmonious Wilbury — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:21:34 +0000

If you’re anything like me, you use My Computer alot to see your disks and drives. Here is a tip to make finding things a lot faster!

By Default, if you go to Start and My Computer, you only have a shortcut to My Computer. Here is how you can make MyComputer appear as a menu, when you mouse over it in you Start menu.

First, Right click on Start, and go to Properties. Click on Customize, and open the Advanced tab. In the scrolling list, find My Computer and check the circle that says “Display as a menu.” The Click OK. Yippie!!
Last, Don’t forget to click Apply as you exit.

Now, Just click Start, and move your mouse over My Computer. Wow! Isn’t that better?

Harmonious Wilbury 2007