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e-newsletter - How to.

Published in August 29th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Technology
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I have been asked a few times how I do my e-newsletters. Many pople send a newsletter as a PDF attachment or as plain text and use Outlook or other email software. Unfortunately when they do that, many of the recipients don’t receive the e-mail because they get caught up in the spam filters.
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Google Via Texting

Published in August 17th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Internet, Technology
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If you don’t have a iPhone or some other web enabled phone you can still do Google searches via SMS texting. It is pretty simple. Put “google” (466453) as the address and the search keywords in the text area. Google will text you back the results. Sometimes you have to “reply” with more info but [...]

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Useful Website Tools

Published in July 11th, 2008
Posted by Michael in Internet, Technology
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If you are familiar with website technology you will know that a web page can look different on different browsers. It is nonetheless important to make sure that your beautifully designed page looks good on all the major systems. I recently had a problem when some people told me that part of my text went [...]

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Daylight Savings Time Changes

Published in February 28th, 2007
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Technology
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Just a reminder that the clocks will go forward on March 11, 2007.
The US Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed last year, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by around four weeks. As a result, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later [...]

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