MyAnswers: How to make things look bigger on the Apple Mac Air.

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I have a new 11" Apple Mac Air. Everything on the screen is so tiny it is very difficult to read. Is there anything I can do to make everything look bigger?

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Australian Dictionary site clobbered by Google.

Businesses often ask me for assistance on how to improve their presence on Google. I receive a large number of visits to my sites as a result of Google. I do however warn clients that Google can giveth, and Google can taketh away.

The following graph shows the traffic for my site www.Australian-Dictionary.com.au. As you can see the site was growing very quickly in terms of traffic. What happened you may ask. As best I can tell around the time of the drop Google changed their search engine algorithm. I don't recall making any significant changes. Traffic as you can see has fallen significantly.

Putting all your effort into promoting via Google I believe is a disaster waiting to happen. This has happened to me multiple times. Just as the momentum for a site is building Google flips and the traffic largely disappears. One person has said this may be a deliberate strategy on Google's part. The cynical suggest that by giving sites a presence and then removing that presence, the only option to keep a presence is paid advertising on Google. I'm not so cynical. Whatever it is that Google does it can make or  break you if you solely focus on Google.

Imagine if you've just paid a Search Engine Optimisation company a small fortune to gain you a presence in Google and then a few months later your online traffic dries up. All that money spent is down the drain and you're not going to get a refund.

When I talk with clients I give them the good and the bad. I've seen companies sell hype and promises. Marketing, advertising, branding and SEO companies. Their real interest is to make a sale. Make sure you look after your interests.

I share this experience in the hope that it assists other businesses make better decisions with their marketing dollar.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Alert: Gmail users should be careful with spam emails sent by other Gmail users.

A strange thing has been happening lately. I'm currently testing Gmail with emails being forwarded to Gmail that are addressed to my business email address.

What I've noticed is I'm receiving a few spam messages a day from people using Gmail addresses. The one I just checked was sent using Gmail from someone based in India. Gmail catches quite a lot of spam and scams, but it doesn't seem to be capturing some spam emails from Gmail's own users.

If you use Gmail and receive an unsolicited email from a Gmail user you don't know, be very careful. It may be spam or it could be a scam. The spam emails really should be caught by Gmail's spam filter but they currently aren't.


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MyAnswers: How I saved a family member $500 on a Dell computer after the special had finished.

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Saved $500 for a family member who wanted a Dell computer but the special had finished.

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MyAnswers: Forwarding emails from Hostgator to Gmail and still get emails in account.

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Using Hostgator I forward emails to a Gmail account but I still end up getting the emails in my Hostgator based email account. Is there any way around this?

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MyAnswers: Don't receive emails I send to myself using Gmail.

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I've forwarded my business email account to Google. I can send emails from Google using my business account email address ,but if I send an email to my business email address either form Gmail or my notebook, I don't receive the email.  

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MyAnswers: How to activate a second computer to use your iTunes Store account.

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Apple enables you to use up to five devices on your single iTunes Store account. When using an additional computer I was prompted to activate the computer using the iTunes Store yet I could not easily find the option.

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