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BY ERIN PHEIL
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January 25, 2007

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Website of the Week: VideoJUG

VideoJug.com is filled to the brim with How-To videos. No more reading lengthy articles or manuals when you want to learn something; just head over to www.videojug.com, search the site for videos on just about any topic, then sit back and relax while you absorb your new knowledge.

Take a look around and you'll find How-Tos on topics including food, health, beauty, relationships, pets, and leisure. Here are some recently-posted videos I saw listed: how to juggle, how to throw a card through a window, how to get out of a car without showing your knickers, how to create a smoky-eye effect, how to give a great handshake, how to give a homie handshake, how to make sushi rice, how to take care of a bruise, how to walk in high heels, and how to vacuum stairs perfectly.

As an added bonus, there's a section containing older historical films from the 1930s through the 1960s. I found most of these to be exceptionally interesting, especially the ones covering World War II.

Other than the videos in the "Made By You" section, the videos on VideoJug are acted out and produced by the actual VideoJug team. While I've found the acting and presentation quality of many of the videos to be a bit of a letdown, I've consistently found the content quality to be solid and useful.



How To of the Week: Setting up multiple homepages in Firefox

Here's a question for all my fellow Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 users: do you visit the same websites each day, perhaps each morning or each evening when you first log on to the web? If you answered yes, then I'd like to tell you how ridiculously easy it is to tell Firefox and IE7 that you'd like to set not just one site, but multiple sites as your homepage.

Here's all you need to do. First, open all of the websites you'd like to set as your "homepages" in different tabs. When you're done, simply go to Tools, then Options (in IE7 this is called Internet Options), and in the Startup section of the box that opens up, click Use Current Pages. That's it! Go on, test it out. Close your browser and reopen it, and watch as all the websites you set as your homepages load at once.

If you have any problems at all getting this to work, just drop me an e-mail at info@timeforcake.com and I'll help you get it set up in no time.



Tip of the Week: wiping your hard drive clean

People tend to wipe their hard drives clean for two reasons: No. 1, to ensure a clean start and make the system as good as new (which allows for the reinstallation of programs) and No. 2, to remove all personal data in preparation of donating, selling, or recycling the computer.

Though there are a number of ways to handle the elimination of data from hard drives, I've found purchasing a cheap utility such as WipeDrive (http://tinyurl.com/33xqyf) or EraseYourHardDrive (http://eraseyourharddrive.com) to be the quickest and easiest solution. For people wishing to rid a hard drive of all personal data while keeping the operating system installed and intact, low-cost programs such as SecureClean (http://tinyurl.com/2kz5le) are quick, easy, and effective as well.

See you next Friday, everyone!



Based in Frisco, eRin pheiL is the primary creative force behind timeforcake (www.timeforcake.com). She can be reached via phone at (970) 668-0709 or by e-mail at info@timeforcake.com.