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How to Choose Web Hosting for your Website or Blog

By Sara Rosso • May 24th, 2010 • Category: A Guide To, Website & Blog

You’re ready to start creating that website you’ve been dreaming about, and you need to get web hosting: a place where you can store and modify your website’s content and make it accessible. Here’s how to choose your web hosting provider.



7 Easy Photoshop Tricks you can do with GIMP software (for Free!)

By Sara Rosso • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Featured

A tutorial to teach you how to use GIMP, an open source alternative to Photoshop, and 7 Photoshop tricks that you can do for free in GIMP!



The Quick and Dirty Guide to Getting Started with WordPress

By Sara Rosso • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Website & Blog

A handy guide to get you up and running with WordPress in no time.



How to Backup Files and Data with Backup Software and Online Resources

By Sara Rosso • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Tech Talk

Do you backup your data? A guide to backup, different types of backup, understanding the difference between backup and archiving, and presenting some backup software and online backup services.



Where to Buy and Find Free Ebooks, and Learning Resources

By Sara Rosso • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Ebooks, Tech Talk

Part 3 of a Guide to Ebooks: Where to Buy and Find Free Ebooks, and Learning Resources



How to Read an ebook: Formats, Devices, Dedicated Readers and iPhone Applications

By Sara Rosso • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Ebooks, Tech Talk

Part 2 of A Guide to Eboosk: How to Read an ebook: Formats, Devices, Dedicated Readers and iPhone Applications



What are ebooks? Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Books

By Sara Rosso • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Ebooks, Tech Talk

The first part in the series A Guide to Ebooks series for Read an Ebook Week. What are ebooks : Electronic Books?, Why aren’t eBooks more popular? Tactile Loss and the eBabel problem, ebooks are Great! Here’s Why : Advantages of ebooks



A Guide to Ebooks for Read an Ebook Week

By Sara Rosso • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Ebooks, Tech Talk

March 8-14, 2009 is Read an Ebook Week and in honor of that, not only will I be reading a LOT of eBooks, I will posting several posts in the next few days that will be a Guide to Ebooks. I’ll be talking about advantages and disadvantages, formats, devices and applications to get you going on ebooks now!



A Guide to Copyright and Creative Commons

By Sara Rosso • Feb 24th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Tech Talk, Website & Blog

Understand your copyright options as an online content creator and publisher as well as how you can share and protect your work with the online world in a way that’s comfortable for you.



How to Buy a Domain and What to Do With It

By Sara Rosso • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: A Guide To, Tech Talk, Website & Blog

If you’ve ever thought about creating your own website or buying a domain, getting started is much easier than you think. Here’s a few easy steps to consider when planning on buying a domain.