So, there’s a huge hoo ha over what will happen on April 1st, 2009 because PC’s infected with this worm will ‘do something’ on April Fools’ day. Many people are panicking, some say it’s nothing so which is it? First, relax a little. Computer viruses are released every single day with differing threat levels. This [...]

When I was working for an office automation company, I was attached to the photo copier department. As you can imagine, in that department, we did a lot of training and demos and ran through a ton of paper quickly. One of the things the company instilled in me was to recycle that used paper. [...]

So IE 8 launched last week without much fanfare. As time goes on, Microsoft will undoubtedly begin to push the new version through Windows Updates. Looks like it’s time to review our site again to see how it will look on the many different versions of IE – again.
But what if you don’t want to [...]

Auto Canned Response
Since Gmail Labs introduced Canned Response, I’ve heard a lot of praises for the ability to cut down copying/pasting time. I personally have no need for that because my assistants do all the email checking/responding/customer service for me AND I prefer using Direct Access, a macro like program where you can pre-program common [...]

I remember so well the time I had to use a stack of 3.5 floppy disks at work so I can share a bunch of files with my colleagues and even then the file was split up over several disks. I so wish I had one of these 8GB USB babies then. Now, I can [...]

I’m always fascinated with Twitter tools. Some have been just blah and some could prove to be genuinely useful. I found Twendz last week and been watching a few topics through it. It’s fast becoming one of my favorite social network conversation mining tools.
Twitter trends are nothing new. Twitter itself has introduced trending topics in [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to the panel at South by Southwest about selling brands and companies on the idea of engaging via social media. To me, it’s difficult to believe that companies still need to be convinced that this is a viable medium, yet there is a true language barrier between advertisers [...]

If you’ve ever been on Amazon.com you may probably have recognized the numerous personalized recommendations. Amazon knows what you saved in your cart and makes recommendations based on that. It knows what you’ve purchased and viewed in the past and attempts to show you similar products. I admit, I often click on those recommendations, check [...]

File sharing has never been a problem for me. Whip out the FTP program and upload to one of my sites, send the people I want to share the file with a URL. But then Drop.io happened. I tried it and oh my now FTP seems like such an archaic way to share large files. [...]