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 tote. Easy tom whip out and get some quick work done. And, with beautiful designer [...]

Intuit has given us 5 copies of Quickbooks Pro 2009 to give away to Sparkplugging readers! That’s a $199 value, baby! One copy will be given to a lucky Tools & Tech reader, and four others will be given away elsewhere on the Sparkplugging network.
Read Brandie Kajino’s QuickBooks 2009 review here.
So, now you [...]

This week’s Spark an Idea Thursday post deals with Staying Motivated this summer.
I’ve found one of the best tools to get motivated is looking ahead. Think of what kind of sales you’d like to do at the year’s end and what kind of bottom line you’d like to close out the year with. Summer time [...]

Once a week, I spend some time going through Facebook and ‘connecting’. Very often, I see some of my ‘Friends’ getting tagged in certain photos.
Many of them are photos where I know

these guys are pals and probably don’t mind but I’m also seeing pictures taken at conferences, seminars, meetups etc. I usually give people the [...]

I just found such a cool tool – Wordle. It’s just a simple tool to help you make word clouds. Stumbled upon it while I was trying to figure out what to put on a report cover I had written. I normally have a graphic designer do such things for me but I wanted something [...]

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 no problems shutting down the computer but have a problem about when to shut it [...]

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 carrier, Alltel and not a fan of AT&T. Anyhow, ever since my first PDA, [...]

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 the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

I’ve been looking into publishing my reports on the Kindle for a while. It seems like a easy, straightforward process, but just haven’t got around to it. Today I went back to continue my journey again. Since my last visit, and you may have heard, Kindle has launched the DX which is a larger version [...]

A small business owner I know recently said,
“I know how to tell my affiliates how to redirect their links but many of them have blogs on WordPress.com or Blogspot.com which does not allow them to create redirect pages or modify the .htaccess. So how do the redirect and track their links?”
That is such a fabulous [...]