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Router Chaos

FreelancersOffice.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:51:11 +0000

I just spent three days trying to make my router work properly. Very big headache and a mess to get the thing to work right, but in the end I have won the battle. I had to go into the settings for it and reset the thing to factory defaults, then I had to manually reconfigure things to the way they are supposed to be until I had it back up to where it should be and working right. It is working now, though, so I’m happy about that. After three days of fighting it I had determined that maybe it had burned out completely or something. Thankfully it just had to be completely reconfigured from the factory settings up.

Office Cleaning Time

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:04:46 +0000

It is time to clean my office out, the dang thing seems to be trying to take over and evict me. I don’t know where all that office clutter comes from, but I want it gone and the office reclaimed from the scrap paper monsters by the time my desktop gets back from HP. That means I have a LOT of office cleaning to get done this weekend. Not exactly how I had wanted to spend the weekend, but…. it needs to be done.

Business Card Software – Free today

FreelancersOffice.com — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:24:56 +0000

As I write this I am waiting for a business card program to download so I can test it out. The program, BusinessCards MX 3.92, is the featured program at Giveaway of the Day today – see link in the sidebar on the left.

BusinessCards MX is a card design program for small business owners, I have already discovered that they have a wide selection of card designs at their website for apparently free download. I’m going to see if I can create a good business card for my Family Caregiver Information site (www.familycaregiver.info) as a test for the program, then I will let everyone know what I think of it.

The standard price for the BusinessCard MX program is $29.95, so if this is something that you might be interested in I encourage you to check out the Giveaway of the Day website and pick up a copy while it is still free. (It has about 10 more hours to go as of when I am writing this.)

Office redesign

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:57:13 +0000

I’m back into the stage where all I want to do is clean up the office and get the desk and shelves all finished in there so I have everything where it belongs. I sort of stopped on the built-in desk a while back, and I am glad now that I did. I have discovered a certain method to my working that I need to account for in my office, so now I am planning my office desk and cabinetry around the particular needs of my business.

I spent most of the night last night looking up designs and plans for built-in desks and cabinets online, now I am sketching out plans for the way I want to have the office look and matching those to the plans that I have printed out from the built-in cabinets to see what I can come up with for building the office that I need to suit my needs.

Office cleaning – it never ends

FreelancersOffice.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:33:27 +0000

I have been hard at work on the office, moved a book case to shift the encyclopedias into the basement library and put my old secretarial into the corner at the head of the stairs to act as a center for my tax stuff to be stashed and worked on. There are a few more things I have to do, but it’s starting to come together nicely. Right now I am in the process of cleaning the mess that moving everything caused.

Plugin for Firefox

FreelancersOffice.com — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:26:27 +0000

I found a new plugin for Firefox when I loaded Firefox onto my laptop last night. The YourMinis dashboard that allows me to create a virtual desktop of widgets such as calendars, calculators, timers, comic strips, text editors and more. I can already see where the thing is going to become an indispensable part of my online work. If you run Firefox I would suggest checking the plugin out, I’m still fiddling with it and learning how to use it.

Editorial Notebooks

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:15:23 +0000

I knew there was a reason why I bought so many notebooks when they went on sale at the start of the school year. Normally they are what I use for outlining chapters in my novels, short stories and articles that I want to write (as well as countless other uses around the office like tracking supplies and so on and so forth), but now I have found a new use for them.

I have dedicated some of them to being editorial notebooks for my websites.

Yup, that’s right, editorial notebooks. I take the notebook and write down on a page what topics I want to cover on the website and as I get those topics completed I check them off (or tear the page out). This lets me keep running notes on what I am working on for each website with a single notebook dedicated to each of my sites.

It seems to be working fairly good so far and reminds me that I have to get things on one site or another done.

I want to build a place on a shelf for the notebooks to be kept, then I am going to cut strips of card stock to about two inches wide and create backs over the spiral binding on them so that a) they won’t grab one another on the shelf and b) I can tell at a glance at the spine what website each of the notebooks is for.

Am I in your way?

FreelancersOffice.com — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:12:02 +0000

This is my cat, Harry Potter, who I suppose you could say is my muse/editor/critic… well, the office cat. Here he is making sure that he is impossible to ignore. Usually he just sits beside me and reaches up to tap my leg with a paw, however, this time he was not getting attention doing that, so he decided that he knew how to get my attention. He jumped up and sat himself on the mouse pad as I worked at the computer. He was not particularly interested in allowing me to have enough room to move the mouse, not when I should have been petting him instead. Silly human.

Dell Photo 926 All-In-One printer

FreelancersOffice.com — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:26:25 +0000

I got a new Dell Photo 926 All-In-One printer. You can see it here in the below picture I took of my desktop as I was getting the printer set up. (That’s Eric Close in his role as Vin Tanner on the Magnificent Seven on my computer’s desktop screen.)

Setting up the printer was fast and easy, the only thing that tripped me up was when to hook it into the computer. That ended up to be nearly the last step in the process because the Dell Photo 926 can be used with or without a computer. I want to get one now for my mom so she can make photocopies of things, since she is not a technosavy person this would allow her to get photocopies of important paperwork without needing to have a working knowledge of computers and without having to go somewhere to get the thing copied.

As I was playing with the printer I made up a little sample sheet for print quality. I wrote a line of text, printed on draft. Put the page back in the printer and moved the text down a little, printed on normal. Then put paper back in, moved text down a little more, and printed on photo quality. It turned out really good. Good enough in fact that I snipped it down to just the size of the writing and glued it to my printer as a permanent record of how the print looks at each quality setting.

I really like this new printer, and would recommend the Dell Photo 926 All-In-One printer as a home office printer to anyone that is looking for a good all-in-one printer.

I got the board I need

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:39:03 +0000

I’ve got the board that I need to finish the desk area in the office, so I am going to be in there working on that for a while tomorrow, see if I can finish things off enough to set up the new printer that I got today.