Archives for the ‘Helpful Tips’ Category

Helpful Tip: How to get Free Shipping at Amazon.com

If you've bought anything from Amazon before, you know that many of the products they sell are eligible for "Free Super Saver Shipping." With the offer, if you spend at least $25 dollars on eligible products, you'll get free shipping. It's as simple as that.

April 26th, 2008
Helpful Tip: How to get Free Shipping at Amazon.com

Helpful Tip: How to Quickly Save an Image

So you're browsing the web and come across an image that you want to save to your computer. There are various ways that you can go about doing this. For example, in Opera you can hold down the Control key and click on the image. You'll then be prompted with the Save-As dialog just as you would have if you right-clicked on the image to save it.

April 16th, 2008
Helpful Tip: How to Quickly Save an Image

Helpful Tip: Drag & Drop Text/URL’s in Firefox

One thing that you may not realize is how many different actions can be performed simply by dragging and dropping text or URL's in Firefox. Most browsers actually support similar actions, but we thought it would be useful to provide an overview of the different ways you can put it to work.

April 5th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Drag & Drop Text/URL’s in Firefox

Helpful Tip: Retrieve Original Images from Windows Photo Gallery

One of the nice features built-in to the Windows Photo Gallery in Vista is a "fix" option where you can edit your photos. Among the editing features are options to auto adjust, adjust exposure, adjust color, crop the picture, or fix red eyes in an image.

April 1st, 2008
Helpful Tip: Retrieve Original Images from Windows Photo Gallery

Helpful Tip: Use the Internet to Save $$$ Eating Out

If you're one of those people who like to save a buck here or there, here's a helpful tip that will save you some money when you're eating out at a restaurant. Most restaurants these days have websites that you can visit to check business hours, or view the menu. Additionally, many of those restaurant sites have an email list or newsletter that you can sign up for.

March 26th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Use the Internet to Save $$$ Eating Out

Helpful Tip: How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers

Every day when I go out to get the mail, there's one thing I know for sure will be there... credit card offers. Often times the envelopes read "Pre-approved" or "0% APR" or "Get Cash Back with This Offer." Whoopty Do. Another credit card offer that I have to shred. It gets old after a while, and I'm sure most of you can relate.

March 18th, 2008
Helpful Tip: How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers

Helpful Tip: Quickly Switch Between Search Engines in Your Browser

I've never been a big fan of the search box located in almost all of the browsers these days, and I'm not quite sure why.

March 16th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Quickly Switch Between Search Engines in Your Browser

Helpful Tip: Gmail RSS Feeds for Labels

Gmail has offered an extremely handy feature for quite awhile that lets you subscribe to an RSS feed for your Inbox. The feed URL that you would need to use is http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom, but your feed reader will need to support authentication for it to work.

March 12th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Gmail RSS Feeds for Labels

Helpful Tip: Use Google to Search Within Websites

There may be times when you're trying to find a page on a specific website but can't find it for one reason or another. Thankfully there's Google to help you search within a website so that you can easily find the page you're looking for. Google has three different options available and each one is very simple to use but will help you find exactly what you're looking for.

March 10th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Use Google to Search Within Websites

Helpful Tip: Advanced Addressing in Gmail

A couple of weeks ago, one of our CyerNotes articles discussed how to use the filters in Gmail. One of the tips we gave talked about using "plus addressing" in which sending an email to username+blah@gmail.com is the same as sending an email to username@gmail.com.

March 5th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Advanced Addressing in Gmail