Using Microsoft Paint to Personalize JPG Files
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Jan's Tips,
Card-Making
If you enjoy making your own cards and like to use your own pictures or images from another source, you can personalize (add text) to them using Microsoft Paint. With just a little practice, and these step-by-step instructions, you can learn to personalize any *.jpg (picture/image) file. Turn any picture into a party invitation or add "subtitles" to family photos!
Computer Disaster Recovery, or Don't Let a Computer Crash Ruin Your Day
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Jan's Tips,
Home-Based Business
The computer has become about as essential as the telephone, or maybe more so, especially if you have a home-based business, you are a telecommuter, or you are going to college or graduate school. Whatever the reason, if you depend on the computer for any regular part of your day (even if just to play one more game of Free Cell), then a computer crash could definitely bring your life to a screeching halt. You can prepare for a computer disaster by regularly performing a few simple disaster recovery processes...and you don't have to be a computer geek to know how.
Jan's Portal Information
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Jan's Portal
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Start Baking Bread!
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Jan's Dough,
Bread Making
Jan's Dough provides recipes and illustrated tutorials for how to bake sourdough bread, as well offering other sourdough-based recipes, tips for baking, and more recipes for everything from homemade applesauce to Cheeseburger Pie!
How To Check Names Spellings in a Research Paper
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Grammar and Writing,
Jan's Tips
You are writing a research paper and one of the works that you need to cite was written by J. Wysozychzy. Here's a tip that will help you to verify that the name is always spelled correctly, every time it appears in your paper.