Ask Owen

I’m looking at a blog but I’m not seeing a subscribe button on the page. I’m pretty sure they have an RSS feed. How do I go about subscribing to it?

{Read More}

I get tons of junk mail in my spam folder. Is there anything I can do to reduce the amount of spam around?

{Read More}

I’ve received an email from Gmail but I don’t recognise the sender. Is there any way I can get his full name?

{Read More}

I am thinking of starting a web presence creation business. I’m not a web designer but I want to help small business owners that don’t have the time or knowledge to create a website and aren’t ready to invest in a real web designer. I would market my services as sort of a trial run to the real thing and would be up front about the limitations of my services.

My inspiration for this idea came from my experience helping my husband get his counseling business off the ground. There was no money for a professional web designer and he didn’t really need a lot. He has no knowledge of how to create a website, register a domain, choose a web host, create google ads, etc. So, I set up his site and his ads. I got him to start blogging, after I set up his account. I really enjoyed doing it and wondered if others would like to get started online but were in the same position he was.

{Read More}

The blog of the day over at PPP has a post up about how our blogs can be hacked. I guess with the last WP upgrade there was a security issue and many hackers took advantage of it. Do you think I should be concerned enough to contact my host and figure out how to see if my sites have been hacked? If so, how do I find out and fix it?

{Read More}

I’m signing up with more and more websites and want to make sure my passwords are secure. What do you suggest?

{Read More}

A relative of mine wants to send a laptop (Asus Eee PC 2G Surf - Intel Mobile CPU, 802.11b/g Wireless, 512MB DDR2, 2GB SSD, 7? WVGA, Linux) to a friend in the UK (I believe the town is East Bolden). I have been trying to help my relative by researching VAT, duty, etc, and am hopelessly confused. How do I find out what all the fees will be? Come to think of it, is it wiser for my relative to buy the computer in the US, and send it out, or should she send the money to the friend and let them buy it locally?

{Read More}

Help! I have no idea what my BIOS password is and need to log into change my boot settings. What can I do?

{Read More}

How do you get the little copyright (c) in a document?

{Read More}

I have friends and family who sometimes forward me junk mail. What’s the best way to stop them without hurting their feelings?

{Read More}