create an email account

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To create an email account:

1. Login to your Control Panel using the login details provided with your Welcome email


2. Open your web hosting Control Panel's Mail Manager section.
   
   


3. Enter the username of the new account in the "Create New Account" field. Enter the password, which you would like to assign to that mailbox in the fields below.
   
   


4. Click on the "Add" button.

Note: For security reasons your password cannot be shorter than 6 symbols as well as it cannot be similar to the mailbox name.

add audio files to your wordpress blog

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These instructions will add your audio files to your Media Library.

1. From your Dashboard, click on the Media link in the left-hand sidebar.
2. Click on Add New

If you are using the Flash uploader:

1. Click on Select Files
2. Select the appropriate file, then click on Select
3. Once the file has been uploaded, you can add further details including:
• Title
• Caption
• Description


4. Click on Save all changes

If you are using the Browser uploader:

1. Click on Choose File
2. Choose the appropriate file, then click on Choose
3. Click on Upload

Your audio files are now in your Media Library ready to include in your posts/pages.

To insert an audio player in a post/page:

1. Edit your post/page
2. Click on the musical notes next to Upload/Insert
3. Click on the Media Library tab
4. Click on Show next to the appropriate audio filename
5. Click on the Audio Player button under the Link URL field
6. Click on Insert into Post

Combine the two processes to insert a file from your computer directly into your post/page.

1. Edit your post/page
2. Click on the musical notes next to Upload/Insert
3. Click on Choose File
4. Choose the appropriate file, then click on Choose
5. Click on Upload
6. Once the file has been uploaded, click on the Audio Player button under the Link URL field
7. Click on Insert into Post

Your file will be inserted into your page/post as an audio player, and it will be stored in the Media Library as well!

create html email signatures in Mac Mail

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1. Create your html email signature using an HTML editor (or get Rae to create one for you!)
2. Open Mail
3. From the Mail menu select Preferences (⌘-,)
4. Click on Composing and ensure Message Format: is Rich Text
5. Click on Signatures, then click on the + sign to create a new signature (this process works best if you have only one signature, so delete any old signatures not in use)
6. Close Mail
7. Open Safari
8. From the File menu select Open File (⌘-O)
9. Open the HTML file you created or imported in Step 1
10. From the File menu select Save As (⌘-S)
11. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the user Library folder on your hard drive
12. In the Library folder, scroll down to the Mail folder, then scroll down to the Signatures folder.
13. In the Signatures folder you should see two files: one will be a .webarchive file and the other a .plist file
14. Click on the .webarchive file to overwrite the existing file, ensure the file format is Web Archive the click on Save
15. Open Mail
16. Check your Preferences (⌘-,) again to ensure the signature is connected to your mail account
17. Check your signature is working by sending yourself a test email (if you've got a second email account, eg, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc, send yourself a test to that email as well!)

customising keyboard shortcuts in Word

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Word comes with a whole heap of keyboard shortcuts, but it also allows you to customise them for your own use.

Word 2003 for PC:

1. From the Tools menu select Customize...
2. Click on the Keyboard button on the Command tab
3. Select the Category and Command from the lists
4. This will display the existing keyboard shortcut (if any)
5. Click in the Press new shortcut key: field
6. Key your preferred shortcut
7. If your shortcut is already assigned to another command, it will be displayed
8. Select which template you want to save your changes (I recommend saving them to Normal.dot so the shortcut is available for all documents)
9. Click on Assign

Word 2004 for Mac:

1. From the Tools menu select Customize, then Customize Keyboard
2. Select the Category and Command from the lists
3. This will display the existing keyboard shortcut (if any)
4. Click in the Press new shortcut key: field
5. Key your preferred shortcut
6. If your shortcut is already assigned to another command, it will be displayed
7. Select which template you want to save your changes (I recommend saving them toNormal.dot so the shortcut is available for all documents)
8. Click on Assign

mac keyboard shortcuts

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For a list of common keyboard shortcuts for mac (OS 10.5 and earlier) click here.

Or you can check out Dan Rodney's (instructor, designer, all round nice guy!) website here. I particularly like Dan because he's a mac AND a pc guy!

Also, most applications will have its own list of shortcuts. You can find these either in Preferences under the Application menu (eg, for Word, click on Word, then Preferences) or sometimes under Edit | Keyboard Shortcuts.

You can also customise your keyboard shortcuts.

Mail Fetcher

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For a full overview of Mail Fetcher, click here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288

To set up Mail Fetcher:

1. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page, and open the Accounts tab.


2. In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add a mail account you own


3. Enter the full email address of the account you'd like to access, then click Next Step.


4. Enter your Username and Password details


5. The default POP Server settings should be fine


6. Tick the 'Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server' box


7. Tick the 'Label incoming messages' box and create a label (or use the email address as a label, although this may be a little long!)


8. Click Add Account


9. In the next window, select 'Yes, I want to be able to send mail as mail@yourdomain.com.au', then click on Next Step


10. Update your Name: details if required, then click Next Step


11. In the next window, select 'Send through yourdomain.com.au SMTP servers'


12. Enter your password and click 'Add Account'


13. Check your POP email account for a vertification email, then click on the link within that email

Now in gmail, when you click on Compose Mail, you can select either your gmail account or your POP account from the dropdown box in the From: field

load a custom email signature

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Your designer has sent you a custom email signature as an HTML file. You will need to save this file to your computer according to which Operating System you are using:

If you are using Windows Vista:
drive:\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures

If you are using Windows XP:
drive:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

Once you have saved the file, use the following instructions to insert the signature automatically.

outlook 2007

To insert a signature automatically:

1. In a new message, on the Message tab, in the Include group, click Signature, and then click Signatures.
   
   Note You can also access the signature options that are available on the Message tab after you click Reply, Reply to All, or Forward in an open message.
   
   
2. On the E-mail Signature tab, in the Select signature to edit list, select the signature that you want.
3. Under Choose default signature, in the New messages list, select the signature that you want.
4. If you want to include a signature in message replies and in forwarded messages, in the Replies/forwards list, select the signature. If not, select none.
5. Click OK.
6. To add the default signature to a currently open message, on the Message tab, in the Include group, click Signatures, and then select the signature.
   

other email programs

For Entourage 2008 click here

For Mac Mail click here