How to Print Out an Entire Directory Listing

Windows does not have a feature for printing out a directory listing. So, here’s how to print out a listing.
Double click on the folder you want the listing of and find the pathname at the top of the folder. It will probably start with a c:\Documents and Settings\yourname\My Documents\morepath.
Select the command prompt from [...]

Toady’s Basic Web Site Formats

Almost all websites follow one of a few basic, simple designs and a few basic, simple rules.
Logos and Company Name
Almost always, the company’s logo is located on the top left section of the web page and the company’s name is located on the top right. We are used to looking at the top [...]

How to Create a Strong Password

Strong passwords have a combination of lower and upper case letters, numbers or other symbols, and most importantly, they don’t make sense to anyone but the creator. The trick is to create strong passwords and remember them. I recommend a strategy rather than a password program.
Do not pick a word for the letters. Come up [...]

Child Safety and the Internet

Twenty years ago I was 16 and starting college. One of the first things I did at college was to find the Internet, and it was great.
Chat rooms were newsgroups and to Instant Message someone you had to know a modicum of Unix.
My favorite newsgroup was sci.chem. The group was populated with Chemistry professors, Chemistry [...]

Loads of Fun for $7.60

When I was just a wee little lass, full of health and joy, I liked to pretend I was an adult, and copied my elders just about any way I could.
When I was a toddler, I talked on my bright colored toy phones. I typed on my dad’s whirring Selectric. I pretended to read books [...]

Foaming Soap

Foaming soap is all the rage these days. It’s kind of cool to pump fluffy bubbles onto your hands to wash them, and since most of us equate clean with bubbles, it certainly seems like you’re getting cleaner. As an added benefit, you can refill your foaming soap containers with a mixture of soap and [...]

Relaxed Parenting

My kids are relatively self-entertaining. Some of the women in my MOMS Club® talk about how they have to sit down and play with their kids constantly, and their kids cannot seem to entertain themselves. My kids are not like this. These same mothers also have their kids in swim school, preschool, gymnastic school, and [...]