Working with QuickTime X By Matthew David
Snow Leopard, Apple's sixth release of OS X, includes a dramatic upgrade to QuickTime. In one swift move, Apple jumped from QuickTime 7 to X. In this article you will find out why Snow Leopard is worth the upgrade just for QuickTime X, what new features abound throughout QuickTime and how you can take advantage of them.
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Windows Vista Made Easy: Printing By Dan Gookin
In this clip, host Dan Gookin discusses printing, and demonstrates it using the Paint program. He covers the File Menu's print command and covers the print Dialog box which lists available printers, and prints from a network printer. He also shows how to print multiple copies and other print functions.
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Windows Vista Made Easy: Quitting Windows By Dan Gookin
In this clip, host Dan Gookin discusses the various options to quitting Windows. He shows how to quit Windows via the Start Button, including the options, including the Lock option, log out, Switch user, sleep, and shut down.
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Windows Vista Made Easy: Save Tutorial By Dan Gookin
In this clip, host Dan Gookin discusses the importance of saving your work. Saving your work is so important that you should do it often. He details why it is important to get in the habit of saving your files, and how to do it using Wordpad as an example.
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Basic Training for Mac OS X Leopard: Time Machine By Tom Wolsky
In this clip, host Tom Wolsky discusses Time Machine, Mac OS X's backup utility that backs your data to an external hard drive. In this clip,discusses how to turn on Time Machine and choose the drive to back up to. He covers how Time Machine works and stores information, and how to restore the backed up material as well as how to find missing documents.
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Basic Training for Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces By Tom Wolsky
In this clip, host Tom Wolsky showcases Spaces, the application that enables you to create room to create different tasks to work on different groups of applications. He takes a look at the basic four spaces and shows how to use them and set them up.
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eBay Essential Training: Shipping scams By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the Gold Plated Shipping Scam, which by being purposely vague, sellers charge unsuspecting bidders wildly crazy prices. He advises looking closely at the small print, such as Free shipping, (handling fees apply). Be very careful when there is free shipping in the title as there may be handling fees. He advises reading the entire listing carefully especially with regard to shipping and handling.
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eBay Essential Training: Misleading titles By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at misleading titles and descriptions in order to fool a buyer. These scams are prevalent on eBay and Mark shows how to spot them. He covers how the scam works.
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eBay Essential Training: Phishing By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at Phishing, a scam that exists on eBay. He details how the scam works, and how the scammer sends an email pretending to be from eBay or PayPal. He gives an example of what the email scam looks like and details how to avoid this scam.
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eBay Essential Training: Using counters By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at counters or page views and how to insert them into your listings. He details what a counter is and why you'd want to insert one in your listing. He details the three different kinds of counters to choose from, including the hidden version.
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eBay Essential Training: Listing Features By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at eBay's Listing features, and how they will help your listings to stand out to potential buyers. This is where eBay will get you every time, every time in the wallet. He takes a look at all the options available in the Listing Features.
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eBay Essential Training: Listing Designer By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the eBay Listing Designer, which enables you to improve your listing visually without having to know any web programming. The designer costs an additional ten cents but gives you a better look than a plain listing.
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eBay Essential Training: Adding photos to your listing By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour discusses how to add pictures to your eBay listings so you can maximize the chance of a better sale. He looks at the eBay enhanced picture services, shows how to set it up on your computer, and how to use it. The services helps to automate a lot of the processes for uploading images to your eBay listings.
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eBay Essential Training: Editing your eBay photos By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour discusses some of the more popular photo editing software that you can use to edit your eBay images. He shows how some of these applications work and how easy that editing your photos can be. He also discusses some of the editing that should be avoided when preparing images for your eBay listings.
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eBay Essential Training: eBay Communities By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the final prestep in selling an item on eBay, and that is exploring the eBay communities, whcih can give you insight on effectively selling your items.
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eBay Essential Training: About Me By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the creation of the About Me page to help build buyer confidence in you prior to posting an item for sale on eBay. He shows where to access the about me page and how to fill it out.
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eBay Essential Training: Before selling, Completed items By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour continues the discussion of preparing to post an item on eBay. He covers completed item searches, which is a preselling step, which gives you the ability to check items that have already sold and at what price, how many bidders, and the listing price.
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eBay Essential Training: Before selling, the Simple Search By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at steps to take before selling an item on eBay. He covers the second presale step, which is the simple search, which enables you to search for the item that you are hoping to sell, which gives you an idea of what your item is selling for, so you know around what pricing it would sell for.
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eBay Essential Training: You Lost By Mark Abdelnour
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at what you can do when you lose an auction. He discusses what kind of choices that you can make after you lose the bid, such as contacting the seller (not recommended), contacting the buyer (not recommended). The most important question when you lose the auction, is to ask yourself why.
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NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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Working with QuickTime X
Snow Leopard, Apple's sixth release of OS X, includes a dramatic upgrade to QuickTime. In one swift move, Apple jumped from QuickTime 7 to X. In this article you will find out why Snow Leopard is worth the upgrade just for QuickTime X, what new features abound throughout QuickTime and how you can take advantage of them.
...Read More »
Windows Vista Made Easy: Printing
In this clip, host Dan Gookin discusses printing, and demonstrates it using the Paint program. He covers the File Menu's print command and covers the print Dialog box which lists available printers, and prints from a network printer. He also shows how to print multiple copies and other print functions.
...Read More »
Windows Vista Made Easy: Quitting Windows
In this clip, host Dan Gookin discusses the various options to quitting Windows. He shows how to quit Windows via the Start Button, including the options, including the Lock option, log out, Switch user, sleep, and shut down.
...Read More »
Windows Vista Made Easy: Save Tutorial
In this clip, host Dan Gookin discusses the importance of saving your work. Saving your work is so important that you should do it often. He details why it is important to get in the habit of saving your files, and how to do it using Wordpad as an example.
...Read More »
Basic Training for Mac OS X Leopard: Time Machine
In this clip, host Tom Wolsky discusses Time Machine, Mac OS X's backup utility that backs your data to an external hard drive. In this clip,discusses how to turn on Time Machine and choose the drive to back up to. He covers how Time Machine works and stores information, and how to restore the backed up material as well as how to find missing documents.
...Read More »
Basic Training for Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces
In this clip, host Tom Wolsky showcases Spaces, the application that enables you to create room to create different tasks to work on different groups of applications. He takes a look at the basic four spaces and shows how to use them and set them up.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Shipping scams
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the Gold Plated Shipping Scam, which by being purposely vague, sellers charge unsuspecting bidders wildly crazy prices. He advises looking closely at the small print, such as Free shipping, (handling fees apply). Be very careful when there is free shipping in the title as there may be handling fees. He advises reading the entire listing carefully especially with regard to shipping and handling.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Misleading titles
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at misleading titles and descriptions in order to fool a buyer. These scams are prevalent on eBay and Mark shows how to spot them. He covers how the scam works.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Phishing
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at Phishing, a scam that exists on eBay. He details how the scam works, and how the scammer sends an email pretending to be from eBay or PayPal. He gives an example of what the email scam looks like and details how to avoid this scam.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Using counters
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at counters or page views and how to insert them into your listings. He details what a counter is and why you'd want to insert one in your listing. He details the three different kinds of counters to choose from, including the hidden version.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Listing Features
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at eBay's Listing features, and how they will help your listings to stand out to potential buyers. This is where eBay will get you every time, every time in the wallet. He takes a look at all the options available in the Listing Features.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Listing Designer
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the eBay Listing Designer, which enables you to improve your listing visually without having to know any web programming. The designer costs an additional ten cents but gives you a better look than a plain listing.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Adding photos to your listing
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour discusses how to add pictures to your eBay listings so you can maximize the chance of a better sale. He looks at the eBay enhanced picture services, shows how to set it up on your computer, and how to use it. The services helps to automate a lot of the processes for uploading images to your eBay listings.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Editing your eBay photos
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour discusses some of the more popular photo editing software that you can use to edit your eBay images. He shows how some of these applications work and how easy that editing your photos can be. He also discusses some of the editing that should be avoided when preparing images for your eBay listings.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: eBay Communities
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the final prestep in selling an item on eBay, and that is exploring the eBay communities, whcih can give you insight on effectively selling your items.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: About Me
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour looks at the creation of the About Me page to help build buyer confidence in you prior to posting an item for sale on eBay. He shows where to access the about me page and how to fill it out.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Before selling, Completed items
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour continues the discussion of preparing to post an item on eBay. He covers completed item searches, which is a preselling step, which gives you the ability to check items that have already sold and at what price, how many bidders, and the listing price.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Before selling, the Simple Search
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at steps to take before selling an item on eBay. He covers the second presale step, which is the simple search, which enables you to search for the item that you are hoping to sell, which gives you an idea of what your item is selling for, so you know around what pricing it would sell for.
...Read More »
eBay Essential Training: Before you sell-Surfing the Web for more information
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at what you can do before you list an item on eBay, and with this, he goes to the Internet to do research, simple searches, information about completed items, and so forth.
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eBay Essential Training: You Lost
In this clip, host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at what you can do when you lose an auction. He discusses what kind of choices that you can make after you lose the bid, such as contacting the seller (not recommended), contacting the buyer (not recommended). The most important question when you lose the auction, is to ask yourself why.
...Read More »
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