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To wrap up 2013 I thought it might be fun to take a look at my blog stats to see which post was read the most over the course of the past year. What I discovered astounded me.
The most popular post of the year wasn’t number one by just a hair. It actually had a whopping 22% more page views than the runner up. [Read more…]
Some computers (especially laptops) have trouble with Youtube videos because they simply don’t have the “muscle” required to display them smoothly. I’ve discovered that using a different web browser will often improve the viewing experience considerably, and the one that I recommend most often is Opera.
Thanks to the speed at which it renders video, Opera seems to work better with Youtube than any other browser that I’ve tried. If your Youtube experience is less than desirable, why not download it and give it a try? Simply visit this page and click the red Download button. [Read more…]
I don’t know about you, but I really like how Internet Explorer 11 provides a drop-down list of site suggestions when I type a letter into the address bar.
For example, if I type the letter R it’ll display RicksDailyTips.com, RealClearPolitics.com and several other sites that begin with the letter R. To visit a site on the list, all I have to do is click on its URL. [Read more…]
Have you ever wanted to create an ebook to sell or just give away to your friends? Most of us have, and there’s a great web tool called Papyrus that will help you do it for free!
Papyrus is a one-stop web shop that lets you do everything from edit and/or import the text and images for your ebook to create beautiful “covers”. They even assist you in selling your completed ebooks! You can easily create beautiful ebooks in kindle, pdf, and epub formats, which pretty much covers 95% of the ebook formats in use today. [Read more…]
Prior to Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows included a handy tool that computed something called the Windows Experience Index, a rudimentary calculation of the relative speeds of a particular PC’s various hardware components.
While the WEI wasn’t perfect, it was in fact quite useful. And it was also 100% free. [Read more…]