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Gail’s latest posts are a prime example of the value she gives away – this time telling you what plug-ins you need on your wordpress blog and better still, many of these plug-ins are free. Have a look at this page to start with www.gailbottomleyonline.com/5-most-needed-wordpress-plugins and then head on back to her home page for more great info & links.
Best wishes
Trish
When you want to search the internet, or “surf the webâ€, you’ll very likely use the Google search engine (http://www.google.com/) which is estimated to have 70% of the market at the present time.
Have you ever wondered just how this works?
Well, first of all, when you search on Google, you are not actually searching the web, you are searching Google’s index of the web. So the next question is, how does Google create this index?
They use software programs called spiders, or web crawlers, or web bots (short for robots) which start out searching a few web pages, then follow the links on those pages to more pages, continuing on and on and in a very short time, have reached millions of pages stored on thousands of machines all around the world. Google’s index is based on all the words the bots find; not all search engines work this way, but today, we’re just discussing Google.
If you want to find some information, you type in the main words and Google goes away and searches for all the pages they have in their index that includes all your key words. For example, say you want to know how much an African Elephant weighs, you’d type the words in say African elephant weigh and back would come a list of approximately 200,000 results for you to look through.
It’s interesting to note that if you type in African elephant weight, you’ll get a smaller result and that’s because African elephant weigh will include results for African elephant weight, but not vice versa.
For computer beginners and other learners as well:
How many times do you read or hear a term used relating to computers and have no idea what it means? Still happens to me and I’ve been using them for more than 20 years.
Growth in this industry is so fast that it’s a real challenge to keep up with every development, Read the rest of this entry »
There is more to your computer than the monitor, the keyboard and the mouse, though most of the other components are hidden away.
In that big box that you often complain about being too bulky, lies the heart of the computer.
It houses all the vital parts that make your computer fully functioning.
Get to know some of these parts.
- The processor or CPU (Central Processing Unit) determines how fast your PC will be & is perhaps one of the vital parts of a computer, if not the most vital. Having a fast processor will allow your computer to convert data faster Read the rest of this entry »
How many times have you needed to use a symbol for a trademark, currency of a different country or even a smiley face and spent lots of time searching to find them?
This has happened to me so often, I’ve made a list of the ones I’ve had to use & thought I would display them on a blog page for easy reference both for myself and others. The page is called “Shortcut to Symbols” – you’ll see it listed in the right hand sidebar under pages, but here is the direct link:
http://trishfindlay.com/shortcuts-to-symbols/
