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Make the Most of the Families.com Weight Loss Blog

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Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives that we don’t have time to realize that there are things around that are meant to make life easier. I’m about to tell you a few things that may help you to make the most of the Families.com Weight Loss Blog. If you like what you read and think a friend would enjoy it, click on the selection below next to the yellow envelope that says “Send this to a friend”. If you really liked what you read, scroll down and rate the article by clicking on a star. (Preferably the … Continue reading →

Make the Most of the Families.com Disney Blog

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If you like what you read and think a friend would enjoy it, click on the selection below next to the yellow envelope that says “Send this to a friend”. If you really liked what you read, rate the article by clicking on a star. (Preferably the star all the way to the right to signify a five star rating.) If you’d like to leave a comment on the article, please do! I love hearing from readers and would love to know more about what you want to read about Disney. Just enter your comments in the “Add a Comment” … Continue reading →

Using RSS feeds on Families.com Part 3

Adding RSS feeds to your feed reader is sometimes easy and at other times a little more difficult. Earlier we discussed a relatively easy way to add RSS feeds to your reader using the Firefox Internet browser. Since there are many who do not use Firefox, I will describe what I am calling a “more difficult way to add RSS feeds to your reader.” I only say more difficult because there is not a cute little icon like this to click on and add your feed to your reader. You have to manually do the work. The steps described below … Continue reading →

Using RSS feeds on Families.com Part 2

The popularity and usefulness of RSS feeds on the Internet is rising. Families.com is one of many Web sites that provide RSS feeds for users so that they can better organize and quickly scan new content postings. Earlier, we began a step-by-step walkthrough of using RSS feeds. We’ll continue now with step 3, using again the Firefox Internet browser feed reader in our example. 3. Add RSS feeds to your reader After choosing your reader (step 1) and locating an RSS feed or two (step 2), it’s time to add the RSS feeds to your reader. There are various ways … Continue reading →

Using RSS feeds on Families.com part 1

Using RSS feeds on Families.com can simplify the way you read new content postings. Each blog and forum thread on Families.com can be quickly accessed using an RSS feed reader. Last week we discussed some commonly asked questions about RSS feeds. If you missed the two articles, you can find them here and here. Today, I will begin running you through a step-by-step tutorial of how to use the RSS feeds on Families.com. 1. Choose your RSS feed reader First, you have to have an RSS feed reader in mind. In last week’s blog I mentioned a few that you … Continue reading →

Photography Glossary- F (cont.)

Today, we finish up with terms beginning with F, then we will continue on, to G and H and the rest of the alphabet! Flare- This is light, which does not form an image, but reaches the film. A well designed lens will help cut down on this, usually with surface coatings. You can reduce the effects of flare on your pictures by keeping your lenses clean, and using lens hoods to help shield the lens from harsh lighting sources outside the image area. Flare is usually unavoidable if you are shooting towards the sun or any other strong lights. … Continue reading →

Photography Glossary- F

This section is so large, it gets a couple of entries. There are lots of “F” terms in Photography. F Fill Flash- This flash mode combines flash and ambient lighting, but it doesn’t try to balance the two types. Filter- This is a colored piece of glass, or some other see through material that is placed over the lens in order to emphasize certain parts (like specific colors), eliminate or reduce certain elements, or to change the color or density of a scene, or in some cases certain parts of a scene. I discussed a couple of filter types in … Continue reading →

Podcasts – The Basics

Podcasting. It’s one of those internet buzz words. Everybody talks about it. But what is Podcasting? Podcasting is a way to distribute over the internet audio or video files using RSS or Atom Syndication. The file could be a professional radio program, a music video, or your own internet radio show. Just like you can listen to the “radio” on the “radio” with podcasting you have a “podcast” of a “podcast”. It means both the delivery method as well as the content. The underlying syndication technology was available in the early 2000’s but started to become extremely popular around 2004. … Continue reading →

Review of four free Internet browsers (introduction)

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You may remember when Internet usage was heating up in the mid-1990’s and a lot of people were trying to customize the look and feel of how they used the Internet At the time, there were two major players in the Internet browser department: Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape Explorer. Looking back, the differences between those two browsers were not so great, though they may have seemed large. The key difference that became more clear as time went on was that Internet Explorer was created and backed by Microsoft. Eventually, IE became the default browser for most since it came … Continue reading →