Taking your MacBook Air on Vacation
Previously, in the iPad Series, we talked about Taking Your iPad on Vacation. If you’d rather take your MacBook Air, it doesn’t take up significantly more space, but provides considerably more functionality. There are some activities that are more suited to a laptop, and some that are easier on the iPad. Work If you want to get a little work done, the most important thing to do is to make sure that you’re getting...
Taking Your iPad on Vacation
This week in the iPad Series, we’ll be talking about apps (and accessories) that you can use with your iPad on vacation. We will consider some of the basic activities that you might expect to have a laptop or other device to do, and we’ll cover why you can get away with just an iPad, a good camera, and possibly your mobile phone. While your iPad can’t take the place of a laptop under normal circumstances, it can get...
Communicating on Your iPad [iPad Series #7]
This week in the iPad Series, we’ll be discussing how we communicating with our friends, family, colleagues, and others. As part of the iOS 7 iPad update, this article has been updated, but the screenshots might not be up-to-date. How do we communicate? Email Phone Calls Video Chat Texts Instant Message These days, many people keep in touch with friends and family through their social networks and apps. We will be dedicating an...
Organized Life Series
There are a thousand ways we could all be more organized, more productive, and therefore more relaxed. Over the next six months you can have an organized life by working on a project every weekend.
Backing Up Your Files [Organization #9]
This week in the Organized Life Series, we will be getting our backup system organized for documents, photos, music, and even email. It’s not fun to think about, but if disaster strikes, you’ll regret it if you don’t think about it now. What disasters do you need to prepare for? Let’s start with the most likely and go from there: Hard drive failure – if you’ve been using computers for a while,...
Automatically Sort Your Email [Organization #5]
This week in the Organized Life Series you will be getting your Email, Contacts, Passwords, and Bookmarks organized. These topics are related, but best discussed on separate pages. Click here or at the bottom of each of the four pages to access the other parts of the series. I have discussed my email system in the past and it hasn’t changed much since then, but I’m revisiting it as a part of the Organized Life Series. #1...
Moving from Yahoo to Google
I am in the process of switching all of my services from Yahoo to Google. I thought I’d share the experience and the things I’ve learned in case someone else is considering it. Current Services I currently use the following services from Yahoo: Email- this would really be the main use. There are a lot of features I use in email: I have my local ISP host email forwarded into my main Yahoo email My main Yahoo email is the...
Email Form Source
[code lang="HTML"] Contact Us - Tolly Ho Restaurant Send an email to Tolly-Ho [/code] [code...
Email Form Tutorial
Our first foray into web forms was the development of an email form. Scott made one that sent him an auto-notification. Brant made one that allowed users of his site to send registration information. I created one that allowed users to send an email to the restaurant from the web form. We learned that your host MUST support the correct version of PHP, and picked up some syntax tricks along the way. This is really more of an example...
Forms
Our first foray into web forms was the development of an email form. Scott made one that sent him an auto-notification. Brant made one that allowed users of his site to send registration information. I created one that allowed users to send an email to the restaurant from the web form. We learned that your host MUST support the correct version of PHP, and picked up some syntax tricks along the way. See the [cref email-form-tutorial]...