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For a year, Microsoft allowed most users of Windows 7 and 8.1 to upgrade for free to the equivalent version of Windows 10. If you already made the jump, there is no cost for any future updates. Those who didn't upgrade will have to pay for a Windows 10 upgrade. How...
I was sent a CorelDRAW file that was really slow. There were a variety of reasons for the slowness, but there was one issue that repeated numerous times. Look at the two red dots below. If you look really closely, you might see a difference between them. But you...
If you have a Web site, there can be several different products involved. Those products could all be managed in the same place or in different places. So let's go over a few of the major items and talk about keeping them updated and accessible. A web site with a...
I told you about about a month ago that Free Upgrades to Windows 10 End of July 29, 2016. This means that any user still on Windows 7 or 8.1 will need to make a decision about moving to Windows 10 before the deadline. While I can make the decision on the computers...
Most users have unsafe computing habits. This leads to their accounts getting hacked, their identity being stolen and other very costly attacks. One of the worst are the constantly changing variants to the Cryptolocker infection. So how do we fix and/or avoid this?...
A week ago, I shared Evaluating Different Mailing Services and discussed that we were testing a new service to send mailings to subscribed readers. The tests all went very well and we have now migrated all of our lists and mailings to MailChimp. We were already...
There have been numerous changes in our online properties in the past couple of years. One thing has remained mostly unchanged and that is the provider we used to send both daily and weekly e-mails to subscribers. The only significant change was Mail List Cleansing...
When Microsoft first made the announcement that Windows 10 upgrades would be free, they said the offer would only be good for a year. Of course many of us wondered if they would change their mind and make upgrades free for a longer period of time. The official word...
Whether a Web site is fast or slow depends on many different things. I've been very disappointed with the speed of some of our sites lately and I am working on addressing the issues I can change. This is important to those visiting the sites and is also a factor in...
I've never understood why there isn't a setting in CorelDRAW's Options dialog to turn on colored nodes, especially after this feature has been available for four versions now. There is a setting in the Options dialog to enlarge nodes, but to color code them you...
We started building our email list in the 90s. Over the years it grew and grew and grew. But there were likely a large number of subscribers who had changed jobs, changing email addresses, changed interests and some who are no longer with us. So it was time for us...
Your email is being filtered. Some of you will disagree strongly as did one user who refused to believe me when I declared it a couple of weeks ago. It is happening and you need to be aware of it. When you send an email to someone, you expect it to be delivered....
A few years ago I wrote Never Import Workspaces From a Previous Version. Why? It's quite simple, it almost always leads to severe instability. The users have crashing problems will reset their workspace and then immediately re-import the old workspace insuring that...
I got a nice looking postcard in the mail recently. It advertised a car service to the airport. It is something I'd consider as it could be less expensive than parking on a long trip. There was even a coupon offering a discount. If you don't see the problem, look...
When I started this blog more than a decade ago, I vowed there were a few topics I would avoid. One of those topics is politics. So while I'm about to tell you a story that involved US politics, I'm writing purely about something that happened online that I want...
About a week ago, I told you about Free Vehicle Templates and Huge Artwork Library. Many of you registered for a free subscription and there may have been a small number of you who had issues with the form. One of the biggest trends in Web design is having a site...
Recently I was working on a flyer for a client that was to contain several photos of their products. The client had brought in a photographer to take pictures. After the pictures were taken, the photographer removed the background from the photos. Then something...
The folks who make ZoneAlarm know that I am an avid user and that I'm not afraid to tell others about it. They asked if I could write something about their latest releases. Obviously I'm happy to do it, but I wanted to know if they could provide something special...
My laptop was showing its age after nearly five years so I got myself a new laptop, the Dell XPS15. I wrote about its little brother in the Dell XPS13 Touchscreen Ultrabook post a few months ago. As part of the new laptop, I knew that my only operating system...
Everyone loves to save money. But there are times that trying to save money will cost you far more in the long run. Specifically, many users buy the "Home and Student" version of CorelDRAW because it costs less than the full version. While it may be the appropriate...
One thing I always try to do at the beginning of each year is to do some routine maintenance on my computer so it will be ready for productivity all year long. I've listed five of those tasks below. Update Your Drivers Every piece of hardware in your computer has a...
We had planned for months to transition the unleash.com Web site to a new server on December 21. The plan was written out and revisited more than a few times so we could make sure the transition was as smooth as possible. All started out well and the Web site was...
The unleash.com site first came to life in May 1995 and it started as just a single page. Over the years it went through a number of makeovers and it grew to over ten thousand pages. Unfortunately it got to the point where making some of the needed changes were...
It was about two months ago that I told you The Big unleash.com Makeover Nearing Completion. Since that announcement, we've moved a lot more content to our new sites. Now the big changes are going to start happening. We've disabled all forms of payments in Graphics...
