Hi folks!

Wow, I’ve really been losing my battle on keeping this place flowing with new articles on a consistent basis… But have no fear, I am still writing quite a bit and some recent changes in my personal schedule has really thrown a wrench in my activities. I am now back to being full-time Dad, so I will no longer be able to work very much on days any more, so I am struggling to fit everything into my new timetable.

Anyhow, I am very pleased to bring you a new tutorial that is based on my experiences in selling websites and general merchandise on eBay and other auction sites:

As someone who has taken on both roles as a seller and buyer, and have helped many others get their site sales off the ground, I thought it would be handy to put together a complete guide to selling your site effectively and protecting your ass from scam artists. So I bring you my tutorial on selling your website and not getting ripped off!

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Enjoy!
Dan

In this simple tutorial, I run you through the quick process of sharing a local printer that is connected to your Vista PC via a USB or Parallel port with other Windows PCs on your network. We’ll go over how to create the share, then how to connect and use the shared printer from the other machines on the network.

I am now using the P2L Publishing System to write all of my tutorials, so please check out the Printer Network Sharing tutorial here!

Enjoy!
Dan

My first Vista tutorial! Granted it’s pretty basic, but the new Vista Start Menu is my pet peeve with the new OS and is by far the most annoying thing about this upgrade. I can not stand the lack of the collapsing panel style All Programs menu that was in XP or anything older. So the first thing I did was enable the Classic Start Menu and this is how it’s done!

I will also show you how to get the Run option back for both Start Menu versions without having to use your registry editor.

I am now using the P2L Publishing System to write all of my tutorials, so please check out the Classic Start Menu in Vista Tutorial here!

Enjoy!
Dan

Here is a new tutorial I wrote this week that walks you through the entire Fill options you have when using the various shape and fill tools. This tutorial covers all 4 fill types:

Uniform Fill (Solid color)
Fountain Fill (Gradients)
Bitmap Fill (Using other images)
Texture Fill (Pre-Formatted Textures and Styles)

I am now using the P2L Publishing System to write all of my tutorials, so please check out the Fill Palette Options Tutorial here!

Enjoy!
Dan

I wrote a quick little tutorial about an issue that I have had in the past and once again cropped up when I purchased a new Toshiba laptop. The issue? You basically have a brand new Windows install (This has happened to me in Windows 2000 and Windows XP) and one of the first things you do is install your antivirus software and then run the Windows Updates… at least that SHOULD be what you do.

So you run the Windows updates and it goes through the detection process without any issues. You select the updates you want to install and it starts to download them. As you look on in the status window, you suddenly notice that even though each install apparently downloads, they completely fail to install! Well, it’s an issue with the Microsoft Updates site not being in your list of trusted sites. Want to learn how to fix it? Click here to read my first official tutorial created on the Pixel2life Publishing System, which is currently in beta and due for release in a couple of weeks.

I guess while I’m at it, I should mention that I will be now using the Publishing System for all of my tutorials now, but I will continue to post a small announcement on here and add them to my complete tutorial list. And no worries, you’ll see a big announcement when you guys can start using the system to host and publish your own tutorials!

Enjoy!
Dan