Computer Basics: Securing Your Website

If you maintain a website for yourself or your business, you're responsible for keeping it safe and running. That includes keeping it secure from hackers and other intrusions. If your site gets hacked, it could becomes useless or worse. Customers may not be able to find you and think you're out of business. You can be penalized by search engines, losing valuable traffic. You may even put site visitors at risk if the hacker installs malware on your site.

Here are five essential practices to follow to help keep your site running safely:

PK Tip: Finding Articles Related to an Entire Keyword Group

Taken literally, keyword groups contain keywords, not articles. However, you can easily locate all articles which are associated with any keywords which are members of an entire keyword group.

Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Reading More Efficiently

With access to a virtually infinite amount of reading material online, in addition to the paper-based reading most of us still have to dig through, we spend more and more time reading. You can easily feel overwhelmed by keeping up with your professional reading, plus staying informed about news and current events.

Here are 5 tips for maximizing the efficiency of your reading time.

PK Tip: Using Keywords and Titles for Effective Search

In Personal Knowbase, you can use an article's keywords, title, and date fields as tools to more easily and quickly search your data file with the Find command (from the Edit menu). Here are some suggestions:

Productivity Tips: 5 Journaling Tips

Whatever your reason for keeping a journal — for self-discovery, for recording a diary, for tracking your goals, or for writing practice — here are some tips for starting your entries and keeping your writing flowing.

Cleaning Up Old Personal Knowbase Data Files (Part 2)

If your old Personal Knowbase data files are getting cluttered and you feel like you're no longer familiar with what they're storing, it might be time for a little file maintenance.

In Part 1, we talked about the cleaning up your file's keywords. Here are more ideas for working with your articles and the files themselves.

Cleaning Up Old Personal Knowbase Data Files (Part 1)

Does your old Personal Knowbase data file require a little maintenance or cleanup?

Personal Knowbase is stable and uses little hard drive space. You're unlikely to have problems if you just let old unused articles and keywords accumulate. But obsolete articles can clutter up and slow down search and query results. And, if you're a little obsessive about being organized, like me, they can irritate.

PK Tip: Searching within Articles That Have Hypertext Links

The last tip talked about how to search in a range of only articles with attachments in Personal Knowbase. But what if you want to run a Find in a search range of only articles with hypertext links in them? That's a little trickier:

Productivity Tips: More Time Management Tips

We all have a lot to do and limited time. We previously offered 5 helpful time management tips. Here are 5 additional tips for using your time more efficiently:

PK Tip: Searching in Articles That Have Attachments

In Personal Knowbase, you can easily run a query that looks only at articles with attachments, since the Build Query command includes an Attachments button for excluding articles without them.

But what if you want to search for a text string using a search range of only articles with attachments? Since the Find operation doesn't have a built-in option for a Search Range limited to articles with attachments, it's a 2-step process: