Published in October 14th, 2009
Looks like the problem with my USB ports and Windows 7 also affects my ability to update my iPhone. The other night I attached the iPhone and was notified there was a firmware upgrade available. Unthinkingly I clicked “yes”. A few minutes into the upgrade the process froze and left my iPhone unusable! Not a [...]
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Published in October 11th, 2009
Over the weekend I upgraded my computer from Vista (64 bit version) to Windows 7 (64 bit) and I thought some of you might find my experience interesting.
After putting in the DVD of Windows 7 Ultimate, the installer told me that a number of my existing applications, including iTunes, would have to be [...]
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Published in September 30th, 2009
It has been driving me crazy how to remove a style that I had applied to a paragraph. Originally I had set it up to be an “emphasis” style but when I pressed “normal” nothing happened for some reason. It remained emphasized! Very annoying. After quite a bit of research I figured out one way [...]
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Published in September 28th, 2009
This is not really a marketing topic but I know some of you are using some of the new mini-HD camcorders like the Flip and the Creative Vado in your business so I thought I would share my experiences. I have a Creative Vado HD minicam and the quality is really quite good. Unfortunately most [...]
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Published in September 21st, 2009
I have one of the original Flip Video camcorders. For the most part it does pretty good but recently when I turned it on, it went “bing” and froze at the logo screen. Nothing I did helped. I took the batteries out, put them back in, deleted files (it would connect to the PC fine).
I [...]
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Published in August 4th, 2009
A couple of years ago I bought a color laser printer. I used it fairly often and after 6 months the out of toner warning came on and I dutifully changed the toner.
About 5 months ago I discovered an override button which allows the printer to keep printing while you obtain a new cartridge. [...]
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Published in July 29th, 2009
My kids hardly use eMail any more. It true. I was surprised when I learned this the other day. It is not that they don’t use the computer to communicate – far from it. They use Facebook and Twitter extensively. Both Facebook and Twitter allow you communicate both publicly and privately. They can involve [...]
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Published in July 20th, 2009
Since January I have been using a web based conferencing tool called Cool Conference Live and I have been very pleased with it. What is more, it costs less than $50 a year to use.You can try it out for free but your participants will see ads. Much better is to spend the $50 which [...]
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Published in April 23rd, 2009
There is a lot of hype around Twitter for business but how useful is it really? The answer of course is – “it depends”. It depends on what you want to accomplish and how much effort you are prepared to put into it. Twitter is a tool and like any tool it is impotent until [...]
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Published in March 22nd, 2009
For us small business owners (and probably others too) the upcoming Google Voice looks to be a revolution in the functionality of phones. It is going to be interesting to see how the established phone companies respond particularly since my understanding is that the service is free.
Read this link to learn more about Google Voice. [...]
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