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Lynn Jordan: Empowering writers to use technology to write and promote better, faster, and easier

Beware of Companies That Take Advantage of Writers

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Today I was procrastinating about writing my next article. I went into my secondary email account to clean some things up and see if anything really important had come in.
Because I wasn’t focused on what I should have been doing (or because the universe wanted me to see it, so [...]

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Does Adobe Flash Kill Your Browser When You Try To Watch Videos?

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I’ve been having a lot of problems when I try to watch Flash videos on my computer. Sometimes Firefox stops the movie after 2 seconds. Sometimes Firefox and Internet Explorer just close.
It’s been very frustrating. I’ve been blaming the problem on an incompatibility between Flash and Vista.
It turns out that the [...]

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Virus Protection Software: Do You Listen To Yours?

As a writer, your computer is your most important tool. To protect it and your work, you need to have virus protection software enabled and recent backups.
 I require all the computers I support to have virus protection software installed. By support, I mean that if the computer gets a virus, it’s my job to fix [...]

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