Category: Hints and Tips

Hints and Tips Articles on Computer Software,Hardware and the Internet.

Business Website Design Ascot

Business Website Design Ascot We are a small professional company based in Chobham near Ascot, offering Website Design and Creation, Website Hosting, Website Domain Registration, Search Engine Optimisation and Consultancy services. Our clients range from large to small businesses as well as home users. We can provide our customers everything from a simple 3 page… Continue reading Business Website Design Ascot

How To Set Up A Gmail Email Account

How To Set Up A Gmail Email Account It is very easy to setup a Google Gmail email account and even better it is free. Even if you currently have a email account with Google or Hotmail it is worth setting up a separate account to subscribe to websites or keep your personal emails separate… Continue reading How To Set Up A Gmail Email Account

How to Hide Your Files from Gmail & Google

How to Hide Your Files from Gmail & Google To hide your files from Google/Gmail is actually quite simple, you just need to rename the file extension, for example if you want to send test.exe you would need to rename it to test.zzz. If you want to send a ZIP or similar file and it… Continue reading How to Hide Your Files from Gmail & Google

How Do I Rename A File Extension On My Computer

How Do I Rename A File Extension on My Computer Renaming a file or its extension on your computer is fairly simple,  just follow the instructions below.  The instructions below are for a recent windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 7 and 8 Machine.   First you need to find location of the file you… Continue reading How Do I Rename A File Extension On My Computer

What Types of File Does Gmail Block?

What Types of File Does Gmail Block? For your “safety” Google / Gmail blocks you from sending & receiving certain types of executable files via email. “ade”, “adp”, “bat”, “chm”, “cmd”, “com”, “cpl”, “exe”,”hta”, “ins”, “isp”, “jse”, “lib”, “mde”, “msc”, “msp”,”mst”, “pif”, “scr”, “sct”, “shb”, “sys”, “vb”, “vbe”,”vbs”, “vxd”, “wsc”, “wsf”, “wsh” Even if you… Continue reading What Types of File Does Gmail Block?

Internet Domain Extensions

Below is a list of all the current Internet Domain Extensions e.g.  .com and the country or institution that they are associated with. It will be interesting to see if they remain the de facto standard with the new custom Website Domain Extensions coming into effect next year. Website Domain Extensions ac     United Kingdom… Continue reading Internet Domain Extensions

Places To Submit my Blog

Places to Submit my Blog You have just had your shiny new Blog created by your website designer consultant, but you are not getting the results & hits you want.  Try submitting it to the following sites to increase your incoming links and hopefully targeted traffic. http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/ http://www.google.com/blogsearch http://www.icerocket.com/index http://www.2rss.com/ http://www.formstack.com/forms/?812106-vmu1jQfE0p http://blogsearch.google.com/ping http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp