Tech Tips

October 2008

What does Your IP Address Reveal About You?

by Barbara J. Feldman October 28, 2008

Your IP address is the logical identification (as opposed to a physical address) of your Internet-connected computer or router. It is a number formatted into 4 octets (or words) separated by periods, such as 184.238.14.180. Your IP address is shared with every website you visit, and frequently included in every email you send. But exactly [...]

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How to Use Blind Carbon Copy

by Barbara J. Feldman October 21, 2008

Do you know when and how to use the Blind Carbon Copy feature of your email client? When addressing an email to send to a single recipient, it’s obvious that their address goes in the TO field and yours in the FROM field. But when sending a message to a large list (whether it’s an [...]

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Microsoft Word Problems Tying You in Knots?

by Barbara J. Feldman October 14, 2008

Have a Microsoft Word problem that is “tying you (and your stomach) in knots?” Allen Wyatt’s

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How to Really, Really Delete a File

by Barbara J. Feldman October 7, 2008

Despite a common misconception that deleting a computer file (and emptying the Recycle Bin) will completely remove a file from a personal computer, it’s just not true. All the delete button really does is remove the file from the directory listing. But for those times when really, really deleting a file is important, there are [...]

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