Do you have a good—even great—memory? If you briefly meet someone in the hall and they make an appointment to see you this Thursday at 10:45 a.m. in meeting room D3020, will you remember that? You may be guessing, and you’d be right; that this doesn’t work well for me. Enter To Do lists. Back [...]
Google+ is a social networking tool, just as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are also networking tools. The advantage of Google+ is that since Google is business oriented as well as socially oriented, it was designed with businesses and customers in mind…not just socializing college students or job seekers! Always keep the forest in mind, even [...]
I admit: guilty as charged. Over a six or seven month period in 2011, I lost a truckload of data and information. It took me months to recover or recreate some of it. Other parts were never recovered. The culprit? Me. I had not been properly, or frequently enough, backing up my irreplaceable data. First, [...]
Heard about Pinterest, or use it personally and wondering if it could improve traffic to your website, or generate interest in your business? It can! Here are some tips for creating and leveraging Pinterest boards for your business: Pinterest business boards are all about inspiration. Your business name, product photo and message are spread when [...]
Are you a Real Estate Agent with a Real Pro web site? Recently, I was working on a client’s Real Pro web site. I added a couple of pages and set them up through the customized navigation but one of the sub pages was not displaying. I checked and re-checked my work. I assumed the [...]
Look at your daily routine and determine how much time you’re spending on your daily tasks. The use oftime tracking software clarifies this quickly. How much time do your basic tasks take? How much time are you actually spending maintaining your business (your website, your social networks, various outlets that help you bring income indirectly)? [...]
Beginning with Windows Vista, through to Windows 7 and 8, there’s been a really great feature called Speech Recognition. As the name implies, it allows you to give voice commands to your computer; that includes dictating e-mails and text into documents. Before you can talk to your computer, you need to train it. To train [...]
Recent versions of Windows have a ‘flag’ on the Taskbar (right side, toward the clock) for the Action Center. Ideally, the flag will display a pop-up message when something requires you to take action. It doesn’t always work that way, so it’s worth your checking periodically to see if anything needs your attention. It’s not [...]
Whether on phones, laptops, full-sized monitors, or tablets, it’s the screen that often consumes the most power. While you can’t always turn the screen off, you can take steps to lower power consumption, and preserve battery life. Phones usually offer an easy way to control the brightness. If your phone automatically adjusts brightness for you, [...]
Many extensions and add-ons are available for programs such as Web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and so on). These mini-programs extend what you can do with that program, or make what you can do much easier. They may slow down your computer when it starts up, or slow a browser when you open [...]
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