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 their printer only cost $20 and it would be cheaper for them to simply buy [...]

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 agree. However, it seems like not everyone in my life wants to cooperate with me.
Here’s what I mean. I [...]

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 you could maybe find something useful too.

BBCodeXtra – this helps me format lists, URLs and text on [...]

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 decided you have spent enough time on it.
Moi of course! I’m going for some shameless [...]

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 own individual pace. The freedom to take a walk to the coffee shop and not feel [...]

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 computers with low prices do not come with a monitor or keyboard or mouse for that matter. [...]

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). If you’d like to slash your electric bill, try some of these.

Unplug that cell phone charger when [...]

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 when others are thinking of summer holidays, I think of emergency and disaster [...]

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 devastating especially when it’s a pretty large book or report. If you have the PDF then you may [...]

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 [...]