Hyperlinks don't work in Email

If you get this message when trying to open a hyperlink within an email: This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.

This is what worked for me:

Open Microsoft Internet Explorer. Go to Tools, Internet Options, Programs tab, and make IE the default (we will be changing your default back to Chrome or other browser but this has to be done first). Close IE.

Open Chrome. You should see a banner at the top that says Chrome is not your default and do you want to make it the default. Select Yes.

Now go back to your email and click a hyperlink. Your link will open in Chrome now.

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iOS 6 Updates and Features – What You Should Know

Safe-keeping this article for when I do upgrade. Leary of Apple Maps however so holding off.

"The Apple Maps app has been widely criticized for inaccuracies and for, well, downright goofy 3D images of bridges falling into the water, landmarks falling over and bumpy airport landing strips."

but this sounds nice:

"Updating to iOS 6 will make you feel as if you got a new device, even if you don’t have a shiny new iPhone 5 in your hands!"

Source: iOS 6 Updates and Features – What You Should Know

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How to Remove Conduit Toolbar

Go to Chrome's wrench in the upper right corner (although I notice today it is no longer a wrench, so anyway it is the Customization icon for Chrome). Go to Extensions. Delete: FLV Runner. Close Chrome and reopen it. It should be gone.

I also uninstalled the app (via Control Panel, uninstall a program) that caused it to load in the first place:  JPEG Lossless Rotator (don't install JPEG Lossless Rotator!)

Things I did that didn't work: System Restore, Uninstall and reinstall Chrome.

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Do NOT install JPEG Lossless Rotator

This software gets 4.5 stars (of 5) from CNET but it hijacked my browser even after I unchecked every box during install so that it wouldn't. Be very careful. I do not recommend that you install JPEG Lossless Rotator.

If you did, you probably have a new persistent toolbar on Chrome from Conduit. Here is how to get rid of it: http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2012/09/remove-conduit-toolbar.html

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Export LinkedIn Connections and Email Addresses

To export your LinkedIn Contacts and email addresses, go to the home page, click on Contacts, then use your BROWSER search to find "Export Connections" on that page. Today it is near the bottom on the right, but it moves around so that's why I use the browser page search to find it.

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How to make a Phone Call from your Computer

If your cell phone is out of charge, and you already gave up your land line, here are two great ways to make a phone call from your computer:


1. Google Voice - Free. Of course you need a free Google account. The best. You also get free voice mail and forwarding services, free SMS text messaging, and free conference calling. Google Voice is only for calls in and to the US and Canada. There's a 3-hour talk time, but no limit to how many times you can call a number.




2. Skype - Not free, but not too expensive. Skype-to-Skype is free but calling a phone (or sending a text) will cost 2.3¢/min or $2.99/month (unlimited). Sending a text will cost 11.2¢/message.

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How to Turn On/Off Javascript in Chrome

The JavaScript setting has moved to here:

In Chrome:

• Go to the wrench ("tool tab") in the top right corner of Chrome.
• Click Settings.
• Click "Show advanced settings" (at the bottom of the page).
• Under Privacy select "Content settings".
• There you can turn on/off JavaScript.

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Where are Blogger Pictures Stored?

Blogger photos are stored online in a Picasa album. When you imported your first picture into your blog, this album was created automatically. You can see them all here: https://picasaweb.google.com/home and then click on the Album that has the name of your blog.

As you upload more photos and videos in Picasa Web Albums, please keep in mind the following account limits:

• Maximum photo size: Each image can be no larger than 20 megabytes and are restricted to 50 megapixels or less.
• Maximum video size: Each video uploaded can be no larger than 1GB in size.
• Maximum number of web albums: 10,000
• Maximum number of photos and videos per web album: 1,000
• Total storage space: Picasa Web provides 1 GB for photos and videos. Files under certain sizesdon't count towards this limit.*

Free storage limits (you must be signed up for Google+)

Photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards your free storage.

Automatic resizing

All photos uploaded in Google+ will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge) and won't count towards your free storage quota.

All photos uploaded from the Picasa software or in Picasa Web Albums over the free size limit will count towards your 1 GB of free storage. When you reach your storage limit, any new photos you upload larger than the free size limit will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge).

If you reach your storage limit when uploading from the Picasa desktop software, you'll only be able upload at free storage sizes. Larger uploads will not be automatically resized to the free storage limit.

Sources:

http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=43879

http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1224181

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Change URL of your Blogger Post!

Update 10/19/2014: Google changed this so go to my new post instead:
http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-change-blogger-post-url.html

You can now change the title URL of your Blogger post in the new Blogger design interface!

In design mode, look over in the left panel under links. Put your page URL in the Title Link box:

Permalink: A permalink is the URL of your blog post. Blogger can either automatically generate a URL for you based on the content of your post, or you can customize the portion of the URL after the date.

Title Link: Link your post title to a specific URL, or leave blank to link the title to your post.

Enclosure Links: Enclosure links help you make podcasts, MP3s, and other content in your posts playable in feeds like RSS and Atom.

Thanks Google!

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Why Is Facebook’s Color Scheme Blue-On-Blue?

Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind and that's why #Facebook ’s Color Scheme is Blue-On-Blue

http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/why-is-facebooks-color-scheme-blue-on-blue/

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Download and Save your Facebook Statuses

Facebook allows you to download and backup all your photos, statuses, friend lists, messages, notes, etc. It's quite easy.

Just click here: https://register.facebook.com/download/

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How to File a Complaint for an Unsolicited Cell Phone Call

If you receive an unsolicited call on your cell phone, here is the FCC complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints

You can also add your mobile phone to the Do Not Contact registry:

Subscribers may register their residential telephone number, including wireless numbers, on the national Do-Not-Call registry by telephone or by Internet at no cost.

Consumers can register on-line for the national do-not-call registry by going to www.donotcall.gov. To register by telephone, consumers may call 1-888-382-1222: for TTY call 1-866-290-4236. You must call from the phone number you wish to register.

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/do-not-call-list

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Have a blog? Rock some Pictures!

If you are blogging about food, shelter, design... I won't subscribe to your blog in my RSS reader if you don't allow photos in your feed.

There's simply too much information out there to consume, and photos are one way to help me narrow the funnel. And trust me, you want that.

Which of these would stop you in your tracks while pouring through your feed?

These Teeny Tiny BLTs from spoonforkbacon.com's RSS feed (Yummm!),

or this?



Nothing against Martha Steward's blog (http://www.themarthablog.com/). It just won't be in my feeds and  likely I won't get over to it very much. But you can believe for sure I clicked through to check out those baby BLT's!

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Closing out Apps on your iPhone Does NOT Extend Battery Life

Like "playing whack-a-mole", tapping the little X's on the iPhone apps you see when you press the home button twice does not shut down a running app. Not sure where this misinformation got started!

Source: HuffingtonPost The 9 Biggest Tech Myths You Hear All The Time (But Are Absolutely Untrue)

"For a long time, the common wisdom held that in order to save battery life on the iPhone, we could just double-tap the home button and close out all the apps on the bottom tray that we weren't using. BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP: 'X' out of the apps, and battery would be saved.

Except, here's the thing: Those apps you see when you press the home button twice aren't actually running or using up any battery. As Fraser Speirs pointed out earlier this year, that row of icons is a list of recently used apps, NOT currently-running apps; when you hit the home button and exit an app, the iPhone automatically shuts it down after five seconds or so. Except in special cases (listed on Speirs' site), the app is not running nor eating up battery life.

Closing out apps might be dang satisfying -- it's like playing whack-a-mole! -- but it is almost certainly not preserving battery life."

But here is a BIG tip for making your iPhone battery life longer:
http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-make-your-iphone-battery-last.html

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Change Outlook Default Font

Somehow my default font changed to Calibri(body) 9... tiny!

Anyway, in Outlook (2010), click through:

• Tools
• Options
• Mail Format
• Stationery and Fonts
• Font (under New mail messages)

I like to choose Arial, Regular, 11  as this is most universal and you pretty much know what it'll look like when your recipient reads it.

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Google Chrome Missing Print Selection when Right-click

If you instead get: Copy, Search Google, Inspect element... add this extension  from Chrome's productivity add-ons: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbkdpdnociibpkkpjgmcmdlnjlebpajk

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Where is my Personal Info in Chrome?

Cut/paste this into your search bar (aka Chrome's omnibox):  chrome://settings/autofill

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iPad Keyboard Split!

If your iPad keyboard separated, simply 'pinch' it back together.

It's kinda nifty it can do that, because you can "undock" and /or "split" the keypad and move it around the screen... helpful if you want to see what would normally be underneath the keyboard. To access the feature, simply press and hold on the keypad icon at the bottom right corner of the keyboard.

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