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For those who would like
to read this in HTML format, this issue of Boomer eZine is posted on
the Boomer
eZine website at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I29_102706.htm
and on the Boomer eZine Blog at http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com. Please pass Boomer eZine on to a friend. They will thank you for it. 1.
Authors
Comments 2.
Q&A,
Comments and
Suggestions (Video) 3.
Copyright 4.
Snag
It 5. Rentacoder.com
Author's
Comments
Linda
and I had a great visit with our son, Travis and his wife, Linda Lee.
It was a great weekend. I
came back to a hard week at work.
Lots
to do and not enough time to do it all.
I am glad it’s Friday.
Tomorrow
my welder friend and I are working on the hunting car again.
We will finish it someday???? Q&A, Comments and
Suggestions
(Video) From Ana: In your article about backing up files, you indicate we can use Mozy.com up to 2.0GB of files. How do I determine how much space my files are taking up, and how do I determine how much space my computer even has?
Also,
does online backup mean if this computer crashes,
I can access my files online from either a new
computer or this one cleaned up, and recopy everything
to the desktop/hard drive? Ana,
great questions. Let’s
look at how to tell how much disc you may have to back up.
I am assuming that you are running windows.
If you go into Windows Explorer (Right click on the
Start button
on the lower left of your screen and the select Explore on the dropdown
box) and go to My Documents where I am assuming most of your files are
located, right click on the My Documents icon and select Properties
from
the dropdown box. Click
the
General Tab and you will see how much space is in My Documents.
If you have additional files in other locations
right click on
them and follow the same procedure to add up all the space your back up
will need. Note:
Mozy will run on your computer and analyze your hard
drive and
let you know ahead of the backup how much space you will need. As
far as how much space is in your computer….To determine how much disc
storage you have, use Windows Explorer, highlight the hard drive disc
letter (usually C: but not always).
Right click the icon for the drive and select
Properties.
You will see how much disc space you have used and
how much is
available and what the total combined space you have on your drive. If
you want to know how much RAM (random access memory) your computer has,
click Start and then select Control Panel.
On the control panel select System.
The main System page will display your operating
system, the
processor speed and how much RAM is in your computer. See
video for the above explanation at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/Videos/V1I29Video/Click-to-Play.html. Question:
If
you back up with Mozy, you can download and recreate all the files on
any computer. The
dialog box
for Mozy has a button “Restore Files” and this will download the
files from the online storage to the hard drive you specify. Mozy
limits how many restores per month are allowed since it is a back up
site and not a file sharing site. Author’s
Note: I check Mozy each day and it has backed up all changed files
sometime during the night. Mozy
tells me the last time the files were backed up and it is usually only
a
few hours ago. Once
you get
past the initial backup, the incremental backups are painless. If
you have anything for this section or you have a suggestion for a topic
for an article, please go to http://www.boomer-ezine.com/Suggestion_Form1.htm
and give us your input. With
your input we can improve the Boomer
Video eZine. Copyrights A
couple of weeks ago, Sue asked for an article about copyrights.
Well, Sue, here it is. The
basis for copyright law in the To
promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries. The
first copyright law was the Copyright Act of 1790.
We are currently operating under the Copyright of
1976 as
amended. Copyrights
have a term of the life of the author plus 70 years.
We Boomers can thank Sonny Bono (Sonny and When you
write original
content, it is copyrighted even if you do not specify “Copyright” or
use the “circle C” ©
copyright symbol. However, it
is best to
declare your works are copyrighted.
The proper way to do this is “Copyright © (Date of
first
Creation) ( Name of author). The best way
to approach
using any information that you have not created yourself is to consider
that it is copyrighted. To copyright
an item,
you must establish a dated record of some type when you first created
the item so you can prove the date of the copyright if someone
challenges you. The
earliest
date will get the copyright. Before
computers, a technique was to write the piece and have it notarized or
witnessed. Another
technique
was to enclose the item in an envelope and mail it to yourself.
The postmark established the date. Now we have
computers
that record the date of file creation for anything we record on them.
This date becomes the date of the copyright. All you have
to do to
copyright something is to create it and follow the previously specified
procedure by specifying “Copyright © (Date of first Creation) ( Name
of author)” Use of
the
copyright symbol is not required. The
following procedure is for MS Word:
To insert the copyright symbol, click Insert on the
tool bar,
Click Symbol on the dropdown and you will be presented a table of all
kinds of symbols. Highlight
the “circle C” and click the Insert button
and the © will appear where your cursor is located.
You will have to click on the Close button to close
the Symbol
box. There, that
was easy.
Now start creating content on which you can proudly
hang that
“circle C”. Snag It Last
week, we discussed how to do a screen print of what you were viewing on
the screen. This is
a quick
and dirty way of printing the screen.
However, it is included in your operating system so
there is no
additional cost for the feature. A
better way (costs $39.95) is to use the software package, Snag It.
This is a very handy package that has many more
features than the
screen print. You
need to
evaluate what you need for your particular requirements. Snag
It is from Techsmith, the same company that makes Camtasia.
Some of the neat features of Snag It are it will
capture the
entire window, not just the part of the window that is visible on the
screen. When you
tell Snag
It to capture, it will start at the top of the window and scroll down
to
the bottom during the capture. As
soon as the capture is complete, the captured data is presented in an
edit screen where you can save the entire image, or cut out a
particular
piece to save or to print. The
editor has other editing tools for editing the capture. We
purchased Snag It in a package deal when we purchased Camtasia ($20.00
extra). I have
already used
it several times. I
used it
to capture and print the keyword table for the Google Adwords campaign
that we are setting up to promote the Boomer Guru videos.
If I had used screen print, I would get a lot of the
page that I
did not need. With
Snag It I
cut out the table and printed it. I
also used it to prepare a shot for the video that we are producing on
how to remotely access your Window XP computer for no additional cost
(other than the cost of the XP operating system). This
is not for everyone, but for some it will be a very handy tool to have.
You can check it out at http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp.
There is a 30 day free trial if you want to play
with it to see
if it might help you. Rentacoder This
is a really cool site. I
have used eLance.com for several projects, but I had never used
Rentacoder.com. (For
previous Boomer eZine article about eLance go to http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I6_052006.htm. It
is more difficult to register on Rentacoder than on eLance.
Apparently, Rentacoder has been burned by credit
card fraud so
you must take additional steps to validate your card for payment.
I signed up and went though the validation process
which
consisted of the usual completion of the sign up form, setting up your
credit card as the payment method, scanning or faxing both sides of the
card to Rentacoder, and then receiving a phone call from Rentacoder
validating the card. This
all was handled quickly and efficiently. I
had a project on which I needed help and in my opinion, the project
should not cost more than $25.00 USD.
The minimum project on eLance is $100.00 so I opted
to try
Rentacoder. I was
pleasantly
surprised. Let’s
talk about the scope of the Rentacoder project.
The Internet allows you to pass parameters from one
web page to
another in the URL. If
you
see a URL containing a question mark (?) followed by characters, the
information after the question mark is the parameter data.
An example is http://www.boomer-guru.com/form1.htm?video=BGV6100602 This
link is to the form on Boomer Guru where the viewer is sent at the end
of any BG video. The form asks the viewer for suggestions for
improvement on the video. Since
this is a general purpose form for all videos, the form needs to know
which video the viewer just watched.
The
video number is passed as a parameter after the question mark (?).
In this case it is ?value=BGV6100602.
I passed the parameter to the form with no
difficulty, but I did
not know the Java code to put it in the input form to send to the ASK
database. I needed
professional help so I turned to Rentacoder. From
the time that I made the decision to use Rentacoder until I had the
finished code was an elapsed time of five hours at a cost of $5.00 USD. The
job was posted as follows: Java Script for ASK form I
need a script written to take the parameter passed to a web page in the
URL and put it in the value= field for a hidden field in a form. 1) Complete and
fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as
complete source code of all work done.
End
of Job Posting. I received
several bids in the $25.00 range without any additional communication.
The winning bid was a young man from He still had not
bid on the job. I
replied
that he had created what I was seeking.
He then entered a bid of $5.00 which I accepted. I recommend that
you consider Rentacoder for any project on which you need help.
There are many capable programmers available through
the Internet
who can help you at a very reasonable price. John
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