If your using Windows Live Writer, and you copy and paste images [for like taking screenshots], you may be unaware that Windows Live Writer is doing you a disservice by not using an optimized image. Or by not offering a choice when posting images.

When images are pasted in to Windows Live Writer the program inserts them as a PNG file. PNG’s are not as compressed as JPG and therefore resulting in larger images, more storage requirements and more bandwidth; resulting in a slower website.

Take a look at my examples…

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When kids go back to school/college, and typically have to pay a fee for the use of textbooks, or purchase textbooks altogether. I don’t quite understand why kids are still taking textbooks to school. The school systems purchase textbooks for the kids to utilize, but the problem is that they’re doing this 6-12 times, if not more.

Textbooks are typically overpriced, typically obsolete by 2-3 years. Printing a single book by itself has got to be extremely expensive. I don’t know the exact dollar amount, but it’s got to be a couple hundred dollars, per book.

It’s no wonder why the educational systems are broke. They’re spending all their money on textbooks that are going to be outdated in five years. Spending a couple hundred dollars for single textbook over the course of one year of classes with hopes of reselling it for a fraction of the cost; this is a sad dream at best.

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I’m so very disappointed in Nuance on the level of customer support they are giving to ‘essentials’ customers. It’s almost bad comedy.

Imagine, if you will,  that you’re a plain Jane/John customer at the local Target. You go in buy your copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and you install it and everything is hunky-dory and then [couple months later] when it’s time to get the update, your not eligible.

Even after months of debates, notices and commentaries on the behalf of the ‘essentials’ customers, Nuance as yet to recognize them on their support website. They don’t even mention the ‘nuance’ that they don’t offer free updates to ‘essentials’ customers’.

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Mozilla’s Firefox is by far the most popular browser that’s recorded by my website. The popularity of Firefox has grown steadily over the past couple years and while some potholes have been placed in the road for Firefox [via Chrome], I still consider Firefox the browser of choice.

One of the beautiful things about Firefox is the ability to add extensions. Firefox by itself is a ‘plain Jane’ browser, but by adding extensions to it if you can increase the function it provides and can make the browsing experience more personal.

It’s something everyone should do…

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