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Camera Buying Guide
Thinking of buying a video camera for your business? Holiday sales offer a
tempting array of choices. Get help choosing the right one for your business
with our video camera buying guide. Cloud Computing for Small Business
What is "the cloud"? Chances are you're already using it whether you realize it
or not. Find out how cloud computing can be useful for your
small business.
Choosing a VoIP Provider
Switching your telephone to VoIP can save your business money and give you
greater flexibility and capabilities in your business telephone system. This
article will help you understand the different options available when you're
trying to choose a VoIP provider.
Understanding Business Phone Systems
Trying to choose a new telephone system for your business? This overview
will help you understand the jargon and types of phone
systems you'll likely encounter as you shop.
Technology Our Lives Depend On
Think technology is cold and impersonal? Think again. Here's a look at
how GE technology and the people who build it make our
lives better.
Best Retail Apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android
Whether you own a small retail chain or sell items out of your brother’s
apartment, there’s an app for that. Developers are beginning to produce mobile
tools to help retailers operate their businesses. These apps help with
everything from clocking in to checking out a customer to creating sales
reports. Here's a list of the best retail business apps for the iPhone, iPad and
Android phones.
Avoid Spam by Controlling How You Use Your Email Address
Unsolicited email, or "spam," is one of the worst productivity killers business
owners and employees face. Filtering the junk email out with software helps, but
it's an imperfect solution. This guide explains how you
can avoid spam altogether.
Netbook Review:
Acer Aspire One
Is a netbook really good enough for running your business on the go? Business
Know-How's technology writer is taking three netbooks through the paces.
Find out how the Acer
Aspire One fared in this review.
Is Your Point of Sale Software Vulnerable?
Fully managed point of sale software can do wonders for your business
operations, but you may want to rethink running your entire storefront from just
one single computer. Here's why >>
Small Business Data Backup and
Storage Solution
Performing routine computer backups is not real high on the list of priorities
for most small business owners, but if you use computers enough, you're
eventually going to have a crash that results in lost data.
Here's a backup solution that makes it easy and
painless to backup and safely store your important data.
5 Free Tools That Make You Look More
Professional
Anything that you can do for free that will keep your business looking
professional to your customers and not affect your bottom line is a good thing.
Here are four services that all businesses need from
time to time, and five tools you can use for free.
Run Your Entire Business
with Free Portable Applications
These days, not only can you easily run your business from home - you can run it
from just about anywhere - with the help of these
free portable applications.
Upload and Narrate PowerPoint Presentations for Free
Adding audio to a PowerPoint presentation to turn it into a presentation that
runs on your web site is normally not an easy task. Now, however, there's a new
solution from MyBrainshark that makes it as simple as placing a phone call.
Read our review of MyBrainshark's many useful features
here.
Cloud Computing:
Computing Without the Software
As a small business owner, you may or may not have heard the concept
of cloud computing. Find out
what it is and what it can do for your small business.
Getting Started with Online Video
Think you'd like to post videos for your business on YouTube or even your web
site, but don't know how? Here's an easy and inexpensive way to
get started with online video.
Desktop,
Laptop, or Netbook: What’s the Best Solution for Your Needs?
Choices abound for your small businesses today’s market like never
before when deciding on where and how you spend your money on
technology, infrastructure, security, and physical location. Here
are some key points you should consider when making your choice in
the type of computer to buy for
your business.
Capture Business Contact Info Quickly with CardScan
What do you do with all those business cards you pick up at conferences,
seminars and meetings? You know, the ones you stuffed carefully into your wallet
or in your top desk drawer so you wouldn't lose them?
Here's the answer to organizing your business cards that doesn't involve binders
or rotary files cluttering up your desk.
5 Steps for Avoiding a Technology
Upgrade Disaster
There are amusing and horrific stories of the trials and tribulations associated
with the transfer of technology, and the implementation of new systems and
architecture. There are lessons that we can learn from those who have blazed the
trails before us, and those who have been burned by the blaze.
Get your fingers ready to count the
five fundamental considerations for implementing new technology.
How to Unshrink a Printout
Have you recently had difficulties printing some web pages? Instead of a
readable web page, are you suddenly finding that some pages are printing out at a fraction of the size they ought
to print - making them just about useless? If so, you're most likely using
Internet Explorer 7 as your browser. Here's a way to
solve the problem >>
Understanding VOIP
We hear about VOIP everyday, but most of us know very little about it.
Read about what VOIP is and get a simple
understanding of how it works.
Top 10 Technology Questions You
Should Ask
You don't have a lot of technology resources inside your company. In fact, just
getting your office printer to work all the time seems like a monumental
challenge. So before investing in the latest-and-greatest-whiz-bang-gotta-have gadget that promises to turn your entire business into a financial powerhouse,
here's a few things to keep in mind.
Are You a Technology Misfit?
One of the odd things about business is that decision makers are usually not
decision implementers. The result is frequently staff resentment, and
a true Technology Misfit in the organization. Here are ways
you can fix the problem before your staff loses all respect for you >>
How to Create Strong Passwords
As a small business owner, you can't afford to have your identity or business
information stolen. Use these tips to create
passwords that hackers (and nosey coworkers) can't easily break.
Buying Computers
To attract customers, retailers and manufacturers often sell new
computers as a bundle that includes the CPU, monitor and sometimes a printer.
Although such bundles sound like a lot for your money, they may not be the best
choice. Read more about
choosing computers >>
Why Does Email Bounce?
Every so often you get an email saying that the email YOU sent could not be
delivered. The reasons are often cryptic and confusing.
Here are some of the reasons, explained in plain English, that your email can't
always get through.
Deciphering Email Confirmation
Requests
Ever sent an email to someone and in reply gotten an official looking message
asking you to confirm your identity? Thought it may appear suspicious, it's
probably your colleague's attempt at reducing spam.
Read more >>
Trojan Horse, Worm or Virus?
Seems like there's no shortage of confusing terminology in the computer
biz. With the advent of computer viruses over recent years, we've spawned even
more terminology that often seems only to make things less clear.
Learn the difference between a trojan horse, worm, and
virus here.
Does Your Virus Software Really Work?
You know you've got a virus because your computer is acting wacky, but
your antivirus software says that you don't. So now how are you going to get the virus off of
your system? Details >>
10 Questions to Ask Before Buying Software
Software for your business can be expensive not just to buy but also to
maintain. To avoid making mistakes now that you'll pay for months or
even years later, ask your software vendor these ten questions.
Read more >>
Top 7 IT Project Problems and Solutions
The average IT project runs 200 percent late, 200 percent over budget and only
contain two-thirds of their original functionality. Find out why, and how you
can stop it from happening to your IT project.
Read more >>
Back Up Your Data Before It's Too Late
Doing backups is kind of like eating healthier... everyone agrees we should, and
yet very few of us actually do. Much like the heart attack victim who no longer
visits McDonald's, the most religious users of backup procedures are those
who've been bitten hard by a failure in their past.
Read
more >>
Why Is My Email Blocked?
If your mail isn't getting through to some people, it could be that your email
address, or even your entire ISP, is blocked. Find out why
and to learn what you can do about it.
Can I Really Catch an Email Virus Just by Looking?
In the past, asking if you could catch an Email Virus just by reading your Email
would get laughs from the techie geeks in the crowd. "Of course not!" they would
giggle. But things have changed. Find out how you can
protect yourself.
Keep Your Computer Safe on the Internet
Lately it seems like not a day goes by that we don't hear about some new kind of
threat aimed at wreaking havoc across computers connected to the internet.
Here are three things you can, and should, do to stay
safe.
Has Your Email Address Been Stolen?
You're minding your own business, and one day you get email from someone you've
never heard of, and they're asking you to stop sending them email. Or worse,
they're angry. Or worse yet, they accuse you of sending them a virus! What's
going on? Find out here >>
Shareware Review: Link Boss
Is your start menu overflowing? Can't find a thing in your bookmarks? StarGate
Link Boss, a shareware program for managing links of all types, might be the
solution. Read this review to learn more.
Shareware Review: Registry First Aid
Tired of Windows crashing? Sick of having software lock up on you or taking
forever to load? The problem could be all of those software installations and
un-installations that went awry! Here's a review of a
shareware program that can fix that problem.
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