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You’ve selected DreamHost as your hosting company and now you need to configure Outlook to read your email from your website. Here are the necessary steps to configure Outlook. If you need to configure Outlook Express, please read this article on how to set up Outlook Express. This article has been updated for Outlook 2007.

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The following video tutorial illustrates how to add a category to your WordPress blog. This tutorial assumes you know how to login to your WordPress Dashboard.

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As a follow-on to a little rant I did on small business owners who don’t want to embrace the web, I found some really good statistics about trends in internet usage for the United States. Just so I’m prepared for the next time someone asks me to make their phone ring with new customers.

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This question comes up most often when setting up a client’s email account to handle their website email, such as Outlook or Thunderbird. Which is the best for email: POP3 or IMAP?

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I had two interactions with small business owners this week that really caused me to pause and wonder what year it was. Small business owners NEED an online presence - a website, and they need a nice professional one too.

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Are you a member of Facebook and have noticed that when you’re logged in, it seems that on many major websites, the site seems to know that you’re on it? Are you concerned about privacy and don’t want Facebook following you around? An engineer who works for Google has created “Facebook Disconnect”.

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This is a picture taken of my hummingbird feeder that’s on my office window. Sometimes working from home gets lonely, and this little bird has been wonderfully entertaining. I think it’s a “she” and that she’s an Anna’s Hummingbird. It took many, many weeks to attract her to the feeder, and now that’s she’s visiting regularly, I’m working hard to keep the nectar fresh and environment welcoming, so she returns often. Which got me to thinking about how hummingbirds are a little like a search engine. Hang in there with me on this one…

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This is a solution that I use often, and wanted to capture it here in my blog in the event that the Web Yep form is down.

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Every morning I sit down in front of my computer and go through my email inbox. The first thing I do is remove all the spam that’s come in overnight. It used to just annoy me, but now I’ve discovered a way to get revenge, and hopefully annoy the spammers in the process.

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In the last 12 months, I’ve had three clients with WordPress blogs get hacked into. In every case, the WordPress version had become outdated. So if you see a little message like this when you log into your WordPress Dashboard:

Don’t ignore it, just hit the “Please update now” link and follow the instructions.

WordPress may release updates every month, or every few months, so be sure to log into your blog at least monthly to check for a new version number.

Prevent hacking and viruses - keep your WordPress Blog updated!