Tech Tips

March 2004

Royalty-Free Graphics

by Barbara J. Feldman March 30, 2004

Royalty-free photographs for your website do not have to be expensive. PD Photo offers thousands of free, public domain photos. IstockPhoto has 85,000 royalty-free photographs and illustrations with prices starting at just fifty cents per image.

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New Browser Window

by Barbara J. Feldman March 23, 2004

In many browsers, including Internet Explorer and Mozilla, holding the shift key down while clicking on a link will open the site in a new browser window. This is useful when visiting a list of links, so you do not need to use your back button to return to the original link list. In Netscape, [...]

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Free RSS Readers

by Barbara J. Feldman March 16, 2004

Reading RSS newsfeeds has gotten a whole lot easier with these three free browser-based newsreaders. My Yahoo

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Academic Software Discounts

by Barbara J. Feldman March 9, 2004

Students, schools, and teachers often qualify for significant education discounts on popular software programs. Microsoft explains their academic discount program here. Two online stores that offer educational discounts are JourneyEd and Creation Engine.

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Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

by Barbara J. Feldman March 2, 2004

Are you the lucky owner of a new computer? To help you move files from your old PC to your new one, Windows XP includes a Files And Settings Transfer Wizard. To learn more, read this article from Microsoft or this one from Tech Republic .

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