How To Backup A Web Site or Blog
A web site is no different than any computer system. It can fail. Sometimes when your web host upgrades the server, things could go wrong. At other times, relationship with your web host could turn...
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Backing Up? Make Sure You Get All The Files
When using a offline backup system like Mozy or Carbonite, you are often given the option to choose which folder you’d like to backup. Most of the time, the folder “My Documents” is selected by...
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Make A New Business Ally: Try The Geeks
Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry...
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Learning On The Go
I’ve been a PDA user since 1999. Oh my yes, it has been that long. Many devices have come and gone since and now I own a Smartphone. No, not the iPhone yet – mostly because I really like my current...
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Shut It Down To Save Energy & Money
There’s a lot to like about saving energy these days. Good for the earth, definitely good for our wallets and makes us feel good so you should shut that computer down when not in use. I personally have...
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Should You Get A Netbook
These tiny little laptop computers with 7 – 8 inch screens seem to be all the rage. Especially among women. I’ve heard many moms talk about how easy it would be to carry a tiny notebook like that in a...
View ArticleWho Says Techies Can’t Be Fit?
I’m a huge Popular Science fan. While putting around their site today I came across this idea: Make dumbbells from CD’s. I thought at first it was hilarious! But after watching the video you know this...
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10 Last Minute Gift Ideas For Dad’s Office
Moms are lot easier to shop for than dads. At least that’s true for me. My dad was a career civil servant but he did try to start his own business once. It was always difficult to shop for him because...
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First Thing To Try When Fixing Peripherals
Two weeks ago, the mouse on one of my computers quit working. It is a USB mouse and I used a KVM switch – it’s a little gadget that allows me to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse with two or more...
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Ever Wondered If You Can Be A WordPress Designer?
Then join me this Wednesday night, when Kelly McCausey – also another trusted WordPress designer – and I discuss all about being a WordPress Designer at the Hot Seminar Series. If the tech stuff is not...
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Spark An Idea: Centralizing Emails Saved My Sanity
Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry...
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Lost Your Doc And Only Have The PDF?
Usually, I’m more protective over the originals than the PDF version because you can make a PDF version any time but not the DOC. Despite my best efforts, I have lost the original DOC before and it’s...
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What’s Your Business’ Disaster and Recovery Plan?
A friend just asked me a question today, how much at risk am I during hurricane season given the fact that I am so close to the coast. Fact is, my home and my business is very much at risk. Every year...
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Watch Out For Those Home Office Power Suckers
Preparing your home is one way to make sure you don’t lose energy out of little cracks here and there. But you should also know there are tons of little power suckers in your home office (and beyond)....
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How To Share Your Keyboard, Monitor & Mouse With Multiple Computers
Have you seen the prices of new computers? Some of them are really low, it’s quite tempting to have them around as backups or retire your older one as a ’server’. The one problem is, most of the...
View ArticleTaking Your Home Office Outside Your Home
This is a guest blog post by Joe Pawlikowsk. When asked what aspect of working at home they enjoy most, many will say the freedom. The freedom to start work at any time. The freedom to work at one’s...
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So Where DO You Go For Business Tech Info Or Help?
Last week, I asked the question, how much time do you spend trying to solve a technical problem. This week, I’ll follow up with a few places and people whom you can go do to find that help after you’ve...
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My 10 Must Have Firefox Add-Ons
Picking up the talk about browsers again, I’ve been looking at my list of Firefox Add-Ons. Some of these I’ve been using for a long, long time and cannot ever do without. I’m sharing my list here so...
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Can You Really Go Paperless?
Some weeks ago, when we all posted pictures of our workspaces, I was part of a brief private discussion about workspace clutter. Someone said, if you go paperless, it is easy to reduce the clutter. I...
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Bye Bye Inkjet, Hello Savings
It is a well known fact when you buy a printer, you don’t truly pay for its cost up front. You will pay for it later when you buy the ink cartridges. This week, a friend and entrepreneur expressed how...
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