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This blog is transitioning to a new and expande one at Have PC—Will WritePlease visit us there.

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Sometimes once-a-day backups are not enough. If you've just written a very important memo or created a critical spreadsheet, don’t take a chance on losing it just because you forget to make a copy. Add-ons for backup software automatically can create secure backups on a hard disk or external drive. Learn about a product that painlessly saves backups to an external or internal site as you work.How

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Designing user-friendly and graphically pleasing web pages is not difficult, but the process does require adherence to some basic elements of good web design. Following some simple but important web design tips in this linked article will get you started. Five Basic Elements of Good Web Design

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Just because you’re operating a business out of a home office do not think you can be careless about retaining business records. In this increasingly litigious society, anyone can be sued by anyone for any reason. Learn what records to keep and how long to keep them.Read the rest of the story at Bright Hub

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If you wait until the beginning of your work day to think about organization, you're already probably facing disorganization. Get some hints here how you can be proactive instead of reactive about staying organized. Get some tips here on getting organized. Preplan Next Day's Work

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Despite the “paperless” office, writers still need to print out copy at times. No one would take a disk with a few pages on it to a copy shop for printing. What about printing out a 40-page user manual or 90 pages of sample chapters for a book proposal? Do you print at home or take it to a shop? In these times of economic troubles, controlling home office costs is more important than ever.Check

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If you have to give public presentations in your line of work, you probably start by creating a talk in a word processor. Writing in the Outline format will help organize your thoughts into a logical flow without shuffling note cards around. Read more of this article on Bright Hub

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Richard H. Pitcairn, DVM, PhD, and Susan Hubble Pitcairn. Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats. 3d ed., rev. and updated. (New York, NY: Rodale, 2005). 466pp incl. index. $18.95.Just as with humans, our pets can benefit from a holistic approach to their health, care, and nutrition. Read about alternative treatments for pet diseaes and try out some healthy food and treat

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For quite some time, flax oil or flax seeds have been promoted for cardiovascular and anti-cancer properties due, in part, to the 40-60 percent fatty-acid ALA (alpha-linolenic acid) component. However, flax seed supplementation has a controversial history. Read the rest of this article on brighthub.com ]

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Here's the first paragrah of an article on the current attempts to put Americans further into debt.Secretary Paulson and other financial geniuses (the term is used loosely) in Washington keep harping on the importance of restoring the ability of Americans to borrow money. These people toss out fine sounding phrases such as "Get the credit market flowing again." Borrow money not just for home

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Here's a brief introduction to a short story that was just published:Some people do not like cats. Harry hated cats. Each visit to his Aunt Tillie's house was a nightmare. His hatred for her cat was exceeded only by his contempt for Tillie. Aunt Tillie was the sweetest, kindest, nicest person in the world. She was quite short, barely clearing five feet and somewhat on the overweight side. Her

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I've been a writer almost as long as I've been an indexer. As I said in my last posting months ago, I was retiring from the indexing field. Since then, I have been writing--probably more words than in the past 24 years!I furnish Web content for a number of providers. Besides general short notes on being a freelance writer, I will be posting snippets and links to many of these articles.I hope you

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As I have announced on several email lists, after nearly 38 years as a professional freelance indexer, I am retiring from this business today, August 31, 2008.I will be focusing on several other areas: writing, which I've also been doing for many years resulting in multiple articles plus two books; programming, another area of interest (I published one successful indexing utility and have

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Google's Virtual Book project including a patent application is described here. Besides the list of other online virtual bookshelf sites, check out the section further down in the article where the different types of metadata are described, particularly #18 and #19--bookmarks to specific lines or pages and user annotations.

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If you're thinking about developing a new brochure or similar marketing piece, here's a possibly useful article on using Microsoft Publisher for this purpose.Create Marketing Materials in Publisher by Helen Bradley, August 4, 2008.

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I learned about a new development that may interest subscribers who are concerned or just interested in Internet Privacy.Presumably, we all know about cookies and how to view, change settings, or delete them from our PCs. There is a new kind called Adobe Flash Cookies. These allow more options for tracking your movements and store a lot more information about you than with normal tracking cookies

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I know it's been quite a while since an update. Although I still search diligently for pertinent news related to indexing, I just haven't seen anything lately that qualified. I did pick up one item today that might be of use.On another subject, though, while I've enjoyed doing this news blog, it really hasn't been all that attractive to subscribers--only a few people have signed up. Probably most

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This article from SmallBusinessComputing.com should be of interest to anyone concerned with Internet/Browser security.Browser Security: IE vs. Safari vs. Firefox, By Kenneth van Wyk, July 9, 2008

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I can hardly believe it has been so long since I updated this blog, which makes the current piece of information all the more relevant. Also, I guess I didn't realize how a blog could help optimize your search engine listings. According to the article below, by including optimal keywords in your blog, it may increase hits on your website. In other words, if I mention the-indexer.com, indexing,

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If you were an indexer working in the middle of the Sixteenth Century, here is what you would need according to an article by Frederick L. Brown:"In the middle of the sixteenth century, before sitting down to his task, Conrad Gesner[1] assembled the following items: glue, scissors, string, paper, pen and ink. We know these materials were associated with the indexer's craft from the lengthy

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For those Vista readers who have not yet upgraded to SP1, here's an interesting review of gains and losses:Vista SP1: Dissected The hugely anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista hits the mark in some instances. In others -- not so much. June 2008 • by J. Peter Bruzzese

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After a dearth of news lately, here are several interesting items:1) Microsoft’s CAPTCHA successfully brokenIf anyone is using the CAPTCHA routing to prevent unauthorized access to such things as email accounts, this is a warning sign.2) Protect Your PC Without Spending a Cent, By Joseph Moran, June 2, 2008.This is an article from the Small Business Computing service. It lists various vendors who

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Microsoft shutting down their book indexing operations[Source: Search Engine News May 24th, 2008]I thought from the title that Microsoft was going to begin outsourcing the indexing of their publications. However, the story deals with Microsoft's giving up an attempt to match Google's project to scan and index existing books for the Web.

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That title probably raised some hackles, didn't it? Perhaps it will even encourage comments. In a dead period, I started thinking about the income and value of indexing work. Value, being as far as I can tell, just about impossible to measure in any concrete, dollars and cents terms, I looked at pay rates. Since I began indexing in 1972, I had some place to start. In Chicago at that time, the

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Here is a link to three more articles on Indexing by Shoshana Hurwitz.http://elephant.org.il/indexing/

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