Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Try stuff out: If you don't like an item you bought on ebay, simply sell it on ebay again.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Selling item title: When selling an item, pay most attention to the title of the item you are selling. Make sure it contains all the keywords a buyer might be looking for.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Check prices: Find out what kind of price similar items, or the same item has been selling for, by going to "Advanced Search" and then place a check mark in the "Completed items only" checkbox.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Buy in bulk: Buy in bulk, and then sell individually. Search suggestions (don't use the quotes): "baseball lot", "football lots" (notice the use of singular and plural), "clothes bulk".
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Politeness: Put something friendly at the end of your auction listings. For example, "Thanks for looking". This builds confidence and a sense of goodwill.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Old: Try a search for "old", and see what interesting items you can find.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Night owls: If you find yourself unable to sleep during the wee hours, say, 3 o'clock in the morning, do yourself a favor and cruise eBay for a while in search of bargains listed (foolishly!) to close at this time. When everyone else is asleep, that is the time to snag a bargain.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Feedback rating: Don't sell valuable items until you have a reasonable feedback rating. If your feedback rating is less than 10 people are likely to bid significantly less for your item.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Sniping: Bidding in the closing seconds of an auction is often successful, and doesn't allow the previous high bidder enough time from reconsidering whether to increase their bid.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Ebay
Cents matter: When selling, make your reserve price $19.99 instead of $20.00, to save on fees. And when buying, bid $10.02 instead of $10, to outbid those who like to bid in whole dollar amounts.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Domain names
Choosing a domain name:
- Choose a name that matches your site name or product.
- Keep the domain name as short as possible, at the same time as being meaningful and easy to remember. Avoid dashes in the name if you can, although sometimes they are helpful.
- .com names are preferable because searches tend to try .com first. Also, since .com is one of the oldest extensions it can help establish that your business or website has probably been around for a while, and may be more reliable.
- Avoid trademark names.
- Get your perfect domain name before somebody else does.
- If you want yourname.com, you may also want yourname.net, and point the latter to the same website as the first.
- If you want, say, tulip.com, you should also want tulips.com.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Domain names
Register your domain names a few years in advance if you want to be sure of keeping possession of your domains. There are many unscrupulous domain registrars out there, and things can go wrong at the time of renewing domains.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Whitelist senders by adding them to your Gmail contacts. This will ensure that these messages won't be marked as spam.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Automatically download your Gmail email into your favorite email program (such as Outlook express, or Windows Mail) by setting your Gmail account's POP settings, and following the setup instructions provided by Gmail. This is also a good way to keep a backup of your Gmail messages.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Have your domain's email directed to Gmail: If you have a domain hosted on a shared server and you don't trust the reliability of the email from it, you can have all your email directed to Gmail instead of your domain, by changing the email MX setting in your web hosting administration panel. (Only do this if you know what you are doing)
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Import contacts (names, email addresses, etc) into Gmail by exporting them from your local application as a comma-separated file, and then importing them into the Gmail contacts.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP)
Save time by only checking your email several times every day. This way you can be in control of your email, rather than it being in control of you. If your email is automatically checked every 5 minutes it can prove to be a distraction.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP)
A few quick tips:- Write a meaningful subject line.
- Keep the message short and clear. Use blank lines between paragraphs. Don't use all caps.
- Avoid attachments if you can. They can cause complications.
- Identify yourself clearly.
- Proofread before sending. Mispellings or grammatical errors can make you appear foolish.
- Don't assume privacy. What you write in an email may appear on the Internet forever.
- Distinguish between formal and informal situations. Abbreviations and smilies :-) are more appropriate among friends.
- Respond promptly. Even if it is just to say that you can't respond right now.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP)
Templates or copied drafts can be used for commonly sent emails or paragraphs, whereby you only need to change one or two things instead of typing the whole text each time.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Keyboard shortcuts can speed things up. You can enable them from your Gmail settings page.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Deleting spam messages from the spam View is not necessary, since Gmail will do this for your automatically once a spam entry is 30 days old. Before that time, if you inadvertently mark a message as Spam, you can always go into the Spam view and move it back to the Inbox, which "unmarks" the message as Spam.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Show only unread messages: Search mail for label:unread label:inbox ( link )
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Gmail notifier: ( link ) can be used to notify you when you have received new mail in your Gmail account, and also enables Gmail to be your default email client within Windows.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Email & VOIP (voice over IP) > Gmail
Backup your most important files to your Gmail web space. You can do this by sending a message to your Gmail address and attaching the file you want to backup. You may need to compress the file in a RAR archive. And you will probably want to securely encrypt the file as well.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Web-development > Content management systems (CMS)
Whether to use a CMS as opposed to raw HTML? It only makes sense to use a CMS (such as Joomla, Drupal, etc) if you are publishing at least 10 new documents a week, with at least several authors or editors publishing this content. As the number of documents, authors and editors rise, a CMS begins to make more and more sense. Otherwise, keep it simple stupid.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Browsing
Spelling checker: You can check the spelling of what you write in your web browser, such as when you are submitting tips to this site, by using browser add-on tools such as IESpell ( link ) or the Google toolbar.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Browsing
Open links in a new tab or window: This is something I do all the time so that I don't lose the page I already have on the screen. Also, by loading several different links concurrently in this way you are able to load the pages more quickly than if you loaded them one at a time. This is particularly useful when you want to view several different pages from a slow-loading site.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Downloading
Use a download manager. It reduces the risk of losing files if there are server problems, because the manager can resume from where it left off.
Some managers also check file integrity, by using a checksum matching process. E.g.:
Using Free Download Manager, right-click on the downloaded software in the list of downloads, select 'Check file integrity', and enter in the box the md5sum provided on the download website.
It will be something like: 512c8346b0f8eb35f28c4eb96454d391
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet > Searching
Google: To narrow your search results:
Group words within quotation marks to keep the words together; for example, a search for "south africa" will find more specific results than searching for the words without the quotation marks.
If you are searching for a site within your own country, you can restrict your search to sites that have the appropriate domain name, for example, to search only sites that have the Australian ".au" extension, you can specify in your search: site:.au
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet
Color-blind people usually can't distinguish reds from greens. Make webpages friendlier by not using a red/green combination to contrast things.
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Main > Technology > Computers > Internet
Broadband and moving house tip: it's important first to check with the main telecommunications service provider to see if phone-lines in the precise area of your new abode do usually get broadband. For example, some residences are too far from the local telephone "exchange" for broadband (ADSL) and can only get dialup or wireless.
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