Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Google Sites and G Suite Productivity Tools Work for Me
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Back to the Real Stone Age
Loving G Suite...
Slight Changes in the Way We Post
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Creating Multiple Users on Windows 10
It took me all night to do it, but I think it's fixed. I have finally managed to create multiple users on my PC (running Windows 10). I have my Admin account, my main account (both linked to my Microsoft OneDrive), and a local (non-Microsoft), standard (non-admin), account for my nephew. Each has its own log-in, profile, and apps. All my files are still there, I am still able to log into my OneDrive and sync it to my Desktop and my phone, and (sighing in gratitude) that annoying out-dated email address is gone from "My Info" on the Account Settings page. If all goes well, this happy state of affairs will continue, I will not forget my passwords and pins, and I will no longer have to see Roblox and Minecraft when I log onto my nice, private desktop. Best of all my nephew will not have access to my personal OneDrive and the files therein. Now, maybe I could have done the same thing by setting share permissions on each and every file or folder, but I like having the separate, customized desktops.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Again, the Nightmare of Switching Hosts
Google's Tech Support wasn't sure what to do with some of the cNAMES and things in Yahoo's Domain Manager, and advised me to leave those be. These are the steps I took, not necessarily in the right order: built my new site using G Suites apps; verified domain ownership in Google; downloaded all needed files and images from Yahoo; moved a lot of content to my various blogs; changed MX records and selected cNAMES in Yahoo; put a redirect on my old index page; changed my nameserver back to Network Solutions; dumped many old pages from the old site's directory in Yahoo; and changed the aNAMES and MX records in Network Solutions. Possibly, I should have changed only the cNAMES in Network Solutions, and used a free redirect as a pointer for my "naked domain" (domain name without the "www"). Right now, things seem fine. I did have a few glitchy moments when my computer or phone would arbitrarily serve up my old index page, looking rather pitiful with its now-broken images and links. But I added some redirects in my old index page's meta tags (not recommended, they all said, but then they also said it's easy to do, go ahead and do it); adding a permalink as a bookmark on the main page; and deleting many old pages. Afterwards, my new site came up pretty consistently. I called a friend, and it came up for her, too. I still have to wait several days for propagation and dread the day that my Yahoo Small Business account expires, because it's possible that I put the wrong DNS pointers in there somewhere. Yahoo had told me that when the account expired, it would no longer serve up files or records for me, and I could revert back to Network Solutions. I jumped the gun on that and did it today. If all is well, my site will stay up and running no matter what. If something's wrong, I guess I can log into Network Solutions and see if I can remember what to do with aNAMES, cNAMES, and MX records....
Friday, February 15, 2019
Switching from Yahoo Small Business to New Google Sites
As always, switching hosts was a nightmare, but I have done it. My site is now on New Google Sites, and we'll see how long those last. Google, after all, has quite a track record for discontinuing services at the drop of a hat...