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This weekend's Money Making & Saving Tip:3 sites to see how much your home is worthHave you checked your home's value lately? If not, you might be in for a pleasant surprise. I'll tell you the best ways to check. This weekend's Apps for your phone:Apps for summer travelAs travel season approaches, use your mobile gadget to help make your trips easier. Here are 10 great apps you don't want to travel without. This weekend's CUFF that's always cool and free:3 ways to privately share videos onlineThe Internet is great for sharing video, but most sharing methods are public. If you want to share video privately, I've got the solution. Updates to find me in your hometown!
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Upload the file to YouTube or Vimeo and email your family the link. If you don't want to use public services, try a private streaming site like VideoSprout or Givit. Your family can watch it whenever they want with no hassle. If you actually want your family to have the video file, use a file sharing service like WikiSend. It avoids the hassles of email attachments, and your video file can stay its full size for better image quality. Video is a great way to capture memories or express yourself artistically. Here are some ideas for making great videos.
To learn more about antenna types and ideal positioning, visit AntennaWeb. It might turn out that you can buy an indoor antenna and save yourself some hassle. If your current antenna does support a digital signal, then you can use a signal repeater. This will grab the signal from any audio/visual device and send it to other devices. RF-Link's AVS-5811 transmitter and AVS-5813 receiver makes a good system. Of course, it will set you back more than $150. That's probably not saving as much money as you'd hoped, Ed! You can find less expensive systems, but those are mostly designed for indoor use at ranges under 150 feet. Depending on where the shed is located, they might not provide a good connection. Keep that in mind when you're shopping around. Don't want to spend all that money? A lower-cost, lower-tech solution is to run your antenna cable through the floor. Or you can run it through a window and seal up the gap with a bit of wood trim. Setting up a home entertainment system can be a tall order. Don't call a contractor, though; use these ideas to make it easy.
Taking screenshots in OS XDarrel, of Sioux Falls, SD, listens to my national radio show on KELO 1320 AM. He occasionally needs to save or share a picture of his iMac screen, but he can't figure out how to do it. Is special software needed? When you're trying to explain a warning dialog box or demonstrating to a friend how a program works, a picture of your desktop or an active window can be worth a thousand words. Fortunately, no software is needed, Darrel. The ability to take a screenshot is built into Macs. To take a shot of the entire desktop, simply press CMD + Shift + 3. For a screenshot of a custom area, press CMD + Shift + 4. This gives you a cross hair cursor that can be used to select an area of the screen. To take a shot of an active window in an application, press CMD + Shift + 4 and then hit the spacebar. The cursor will turn into a camera icon. Use the camera cursor to highlight the correct window and click to capture. Screenshots are saved to your desktop as PNG image files. You can view them with Preview. By the way, you can capture any file you're looking at in Preview by going to Preview>>File>>Take Screenshot. Want to learn even more handy, time-saving OS X keyboard shortcuts? Grab my updated Guide to Time-Saving Shortcuts for Mac OS X. It has 2 pages packed with information you don't want to be without. While you're there, take a look at some of my other helpful e-Guides. With the right gear and know-how, taking great pictures is almost as easy as taking screenshots. Here are a few ideas to explore.
Don't miss any more of my hot picks; get all my free newsletters in your inbox. >> Get Savvy with Social: Keys to success with social mediaWhat is a Twitter mention?Karen, from Salinas, CA, listens to my show on KION 1460 AM. She recently joined Twitter and someone sent a tweet directly to her. She wants to know how to send one back to them. Seeing @ and then a username at the beginning of a tweet is common on Twitter. These tweets are called mentions, and they're the way that most Twitter users interact. There are two different types of mentions: The @ tweet and the @ reply. Let me explain both of them. An @ tweet is an easy way to share content with one of your Twitter friends. Use it to send someone a link to a news story or picture. In your tweet, type @ then the friend's username with no spaces. Next, type what you want to say and click Send. The tweet will show up on your friend's page. Note that you can send a mention to multiple people at once using several @usernames. An @ reply is a little different. You can use it to start a dialogue with someone about something they've tweeted. To send one of these, just hover your mouse over a tweet and click Reply. Once you do, a textbox will show up so you can type what you want to say. Need some practice? Try sending an @ tweet to me, @KimKomando, or try replying to one of my tweets. I love hearing from my fans! Don't forget to follow me so I can send you links to all sorts of cool things I find on the Web. Finally, to see what people are saying about, or to, you, click the @Connect section of your profile. It's next to the Home tab on the main screen. There, you can see who has mentioned or followed you. Twitter is a fabulous way to connect with your friends, but it can be overwhelming. Here are three ways to make your Twitter life a little easier.
Rookie Rundown: The start to your digital lifeSleep vs. hibernateDarlene, from Windsor-Detroit, listens to my national radio show on CKLW 800 AM. She wants to know the difference between Sleep and Hibernate in her Windows 7 laptop's shutdown options. I hear this question quite a bit, Darlene. Sleep and Hibernate seem like the same thing. There are a few important differences, however. Sleep mode keeps your computer mostly running but turns off non-essential systems, such as the screen. You save some power and your computer will start again in a flash when you come back to it. Hibernate saves all your open work to your hard drive and shuts down everything for major power savings. Of course, it takes quite a bit longer to turn back on. Overall, it's like turning off your computer, but your computer boots up just the way you left it. To remember the difference, it's a good idea to think about the names literally. Humans sleep for 8 hours a day (if they're lucky) whereas bears hibernate for months. The same goes for your computer. Sleep mode is good for short power-saving breaks, while Hibernate is useful for longer stretches of time. This is especially true when you're running on battery power. If you're stepping away from your computer for 20 minutes, Sleep is for you. In fact, laptops usually enter Sleep mode automatically after a certain amount of time or if you close the lid. Leaving your computer for the day? Hibernate is the option to choose. Or you can just shut down if you don't have anything you're working on. Note that not all Windows computer will have Hibernate as an option. It will depend on your computer's power settings and hardware. Windows is a good operating system, but sometimes it does things that are confusing. I'll help clear up the confusion.
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This is the last week for my Relax & Restore contest!My Relax & Restore contest, sponsored by Carbonite, ends this Friday! Don't miss your last chance to snag a free 7-night Caribbean Cruise in an ocean-view stateroom on the beautiful Carnival Liberty. When you enter, you're also eligible to win a one-year Carbonite Home subscription to back up and restore your computer files. I'm giving away one subscription every week! You'll truly be able to relax and restore knowing that your computer data, photos and memories are backed up safely and securely and within reach with Carbonite Online Backup. Enter Daily. >> Did you know that Kim's Club members are entered in many of my contests automatically - every day? Save time, increase your chances of winning and get access to all the great content from my Digital News Network. Plus, not only can you listen to my weekend show on your schedule, you can watch it right on your computer in state-of-the-art HD video! What a deal - and it's available starting at less than $5 a month! Sign up now!
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Killer Tip: Cleaning up after a virusHeavy on the technical sideQuestion:A couple of nights ago, I opened an email that downloaded a virus to my laptop. It ate a bunch of information on my hard drive, including most of my pictures. My husband stopped the virus, but ever since then the computer isn't acting right. Our wireless Internet connection comes and goes as well, which affects both the laptop and our Roku box. The cable company says everything looks fine on its end. Can a virus affect a wireless router? And is the laptop only good for a paperweight now? I wish I had had Carbonite! We will certainly be getting it. Finally, can you recommend a program that can keep you from opening an email that you shouldn't? Help, Kim! Answer:It sounds like you aren't having a fun time, Debbie. I don't blame you; a virus can ruin anyone's week. And it appears you picked up a particularly nasty one. If the virus really did damage your data, then it isn't surprising that your laptop is unstable. The virus probably destroyed important system files. At this point, your best bet is to wipe the computer and reinstall Windows. I'll warn you now, this is not going to be a small project. Joke:You can always count on me to make you smileSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. In the middle of the night, Holmes woke Watson and said, "Watson, look up and tell me what you see." Watson replied, "I see millions and millions of stars." Holmes continued, "And what do you deduce from that?" Watson replied, "Well, if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth out there. And if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life. Is that what you deduced?" Holmes replied, "No, Watson. Somebody stole our tent."
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