Adsense colours

The Google Adsense program gives you the opportunity to not only display content relevant ads, but also to integrate the ads into your existing website colour scheme.

As the image above illustrates you can change the layout of the Google Adsense ads on your pages, simply by using “point and click”.
You can change the appearance of the Adsense ad border, Adsense ad background, Adsense ad title, Adsense ad text and Adsense ad URL.

Your changes are updated directly online, giving you a preview of the new Adsense layout. Once you are satisfied with your changes, all you have to do is replace the code on your websites, and you are ready to serve beautiful Google Adsense ads that matches your website perfectly.

It is also possible for you to designseveral different colour schemes online, and save them for future reference. If you are wondering if the Adsense ad layout has an influence on your CTR (Click Thru Rate), then the answer is yes! – Adsense Tips gives you the answer.

Note: The Above picture is seeing courtesy with the Google

Capture a DOS Print

One of the things I have been driven nuts by is all the DOS programs my clients still must use. As I move more of them to XP I find the issue of sharing a networked printer with a DOS program a bigger deal. We came across the solution the other day.

On the client machine first make sure you have the printer shared you want to use. Next tell the client machine to add a new printer. Make sure you tell it the printer is local and hooked to a local LPT. There should be no actual physcial printer here.

When doing this I find a generic text printer works excellent for this. Most DOS programs only do text anyway. But you can use older printers as well.

Once this pretend local printer is installed go back into the printers and go to properties for this pretend printer. Go to the Ports tab, select the Pool Ports check box and now check the port that points to your networked printer.

Now what will happen is when you tell your DOS program to print to the fictious local printer port it will instead be routed to the network printer you have selected.

I have used this tip on 4 different programs in DOS and all have worked perfect.

Backup Outlook Express email

One of the most important things to create backup copies of, is your email messages. Here’s a short guide on how to do this if you use the Outlook Express mail client.

Copy the following folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{long sequence of numbers and letters}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

to a backup location (blank CD, Zip disk, backup HD, etc.).

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To import the email back into OE:

1) Open Outlook Express
2) Click File – Import – Messages
3) Highlight Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and click Next
4) Choose Import mail from an OE6 store directory, and click OK
5) Browse to the location (folder) where you backed up your email and click OK.

That’s it. You’ve now imported all your old emails.

This is especially useful for clean installs of your operating system, or moving emails to a different machine.