Archive: February 2006

February 28, 2006

Windows Vista: Your Next Windows Operating System

We go through this every few years, so I'm going to make this short and to the point. Microsoft's...

February 25, 2006

Accounting Software: There's Room for More Than Quickbooks

Although Intuit's Quickbooks holds the biggest share of small business accounting there's plenty of room for other vendors reports AMI...

February 25, 2006

Software for IT Management: Priced for Smaller Businesses

Very large businesses have teams of IT staff in place, reams of consultants and boatloads of software tools to manage...

February 24, 2006

Virtual PBX Review

For the Small Business Summit last month, I used Gotvmail's virtual phone system. It worked quite well and emailed me...

February 24, 2006

Black Berry: It's More than Corporate Servers

I was reading an article in Globe and Mail which reminded that although there are a number of companies who...

February 24, 2006

Google Launches web site building tool...but

At http://www.googlepages.com/ you'll find Google's new web site building tool. Only problem, like other tools, Google is limiting use...

February 23, 2006

CMP Media Launches Smallbizresource.com

Yet another small business site has launched! CMP media joins the family of small business focused web sites and...

February 23, 2006

Why I Chose Craig's List Over eBay

A friend ask me to sell his Treo 650 (Palm based) PDA, immediately I thought of 2 places to sell...

February 22, 2006

Esker On Demand: Get a fax server with no hardware

If you commonly need to send a lot of faxes, or even send documents via postal mail, Esker's On Demand...

February 21, 2006

Lenovo Branded PC's Come to the United States

Lenovo is expected to launch its first foray into the US PC market and plans to announce so on Thursday...

February 21, 2006

I lost all my email. But Recovered them.
What to do when you are the best support?

I worked on my computer for an hour or so earlier this morning up to about 7:30am (from 6:00am). At...

February 21, 2006

How Accounting Software Helped A Mother, Marriage and Antique Car Dealer

Leslie Anderson, of Blue Oval Ranch, runs a typical small business with her husband. He sells antique cars and she...

February 21, 2006

Concerned About Google Desktop? Laplink Has a Solution

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Gartner and I would assume others have issued proclamations that Google's desktop search function...

February 21, 2006

NetZero: More User Friendly & Better Features than Skype

I've been using Skype for several months now to make calls out of the country. I use the fee based...

February 21, 2006

Book Review: "Web Site Cookbook"
Producing a Web Site is More than HTML

Building a web site is not about fancy colors and things. It's about communicating to your audience. O'Reilly has...

February 20, 2006

Microsoft Front Page - It Won't Last Forever

In June 2008, expect Microsoft to stop providing full support to Microsoft Front Page. For many of us, all we've...

February 19, 2006

Will A Radio Shack Close Near You?

For many of you, Radio Shack has been, a "nerd's store". For others Radio Shack was where you got...

February 16, 2006

Now It's The Treo 650w's Turn: PC, Phone, Email - all in your hand.

All of last week and beyond I fell in love with the BlackBerry 7130e powered by Verizon Wireless broadband...

February 16, 2006

More Online Software - The Trick is Knowing What to Pick

Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft's new Office Live online software for building a website and online collaboration. Today I'd like...

February 16, 2006

Avanquest's Small Business Pro: Low Cost & Robust Business Management

Like Costco and Wal-Mart Avanquest continues to churn out a wide array of VERY useful and low cost software for...

February 16, 2006

HP's NX 6125 - Fast. Solid. Secure with Finger Print Scanning

It's 1:10am on Thursday morning (an hour past Wednesday) and I've just finished editing the audio of the Small...

February 15, 2006

Microsoft Office Live - Moving Smaller Business Online. Easy. Fast. Economical.

Yesterday, Microsoft took the wraps off of its latest online (hosted solution) offering, Microsoft Office Live. This online resource is...

February 15, 2006

To Pay or Not Pay for Databases - That is the Question

Databases such as File Maker Pro, Microsoft Access, QuickBase, eUnifyDb and others are perfect for workgroups and keeping track of...

February 15, 2006

Microsoft's Security Service - Behind the Scenes

Right now Microsoft's security service, OneCare is in beta and free for all to use and try out. However, you...

February 15, 2006

Buying Safely On eBay - a reporter is ripped off

There are two main reasons people shop on eBay 1) low price 2) breadth of inventory. I've shopped on...

February 14, 2006

Why Blog? Hammock - something you sleep in or a blogger's name?

At the recently concluded Small Business Summit 2006 Rex Hammock of Hammock Publishing and Smallbusiness.com; Dan Hoffman of M5 Networks;...

February 13, 2006

Get A Domain Name For Your Business By Google

First Google brought us Gmail - which gave everyone gigabytes of storage and prompted Yahoo, Hotmail and MSN to increase...

February 13, 2006

Sonic Wall Beefs up its security offerings

With last year's purchase of Lasso Logic, Sonic Wall is now more than only a digital security vendor making firewalls....

February 13, 2006

Lexmark Launches New Printers

Lexmark International, Inc. announced five new monochrome multifunction laser printers, the Lexmark X644e, X646dte, X850e, X852e and X854e The Lexmark...

February 13, 2006

Lexmark Helps You Control Printing Costs

When you hit the print button on your computer program - what happens? Paper goes through the printer, laser cartridge...

February 12, 2006

Push Email from Microsoft

Right now the big players in having email pushed to you, as opposed to you have to pulling it...

February 12, 2006

Book Review: PCs: The Missing Manual

For many small business owners the PC is a VERY important tool in their business but it's also one of...

February 12, 2006

Book Review: RFID Essentials

From O'Reilly - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is rapidly changing the way business is being conducted. From Wal-Mart to...

February 12, 2006

B-I-G EMC Makes storage products for smaller businesses

EMC is a large businesses best storage friend with leading solutions for enterprise customers. With it's acquisition of SMB backup...

February 12, 2006

Fix Messed Up Word Documents

I'm sure you've seen it many times before. Word documents that come from different computers and/or different computers and different...

February 12, 2006

New Email Management Newsletter Service

Arrow Email Newsletter System provides a wide range of features to help your business manage digital communication. There's two versions...

February 12, 2006

Filing Taxes With The 'Net or Software

Filing your tax returns is a major pain. Many people hire an accountant or someone else to do their taxes...

February 12, 2006

Google can Search a Remote Desktop - But Be Careful

I'm glad to see that Google's newest toolbar can remotely search another computer's desktop, however, if you should let Google...

February 9, 2006

Microsoft's Digital Security Service - Do you need Symantec, TrendMicro or McAfee anymore?

Microsoft has detailed pricing and availability for OneCare Live, a security Relevant Products/Services from service that is designed to bring...

February 9, 2006

Microsoft Re-organizes customer service

In a move the company says aims to improve how it responds to users' needs, Microsoft announced a recent restructuring...

February 6, 2006

On Inc.com...data management.

Inc Magazine's technology is wonderful, this week Inc.com covers the issue of managing data in your business. What's the difference...

February 6, 2006

Is Technology an Asset In Your Business?

For many businesses, the word processor is simply a must have glorious typewriter. It¬?s a tool they must use to...

February 6, 2006

Paying for Email Delivery

Yahoo and AOL are reportedly going to allow companies to pay them to give email they send to Yahoo and...

February 6, 2006

Washington Post Slams WordPerfect X3

I haven't tried out WordPerfect's latest offering but like any product some people will like it and some people won't...

February 5, 2006

Black Berry 7130e it's KEYBOARD is AWESOME

I've been trying out the BlackBerry 7130e from Verizon Wireless over the past several days but only in the past...

February 5, 2006

At the Small Business Summit...

The Small Business Summit is only a few days away (February 10, 2006 - Friday) and the excitement is building....

February 3, 2006

My Week With Spam Continues

It's been about a week or more that I have not used any anti-spam filtering software. For several years now...

February 3, 2006

Project Management Glossary

Being able to understand the terms (lingo) used by any profession is important. One profession that you should understand the...

February 3, 2006

Email OverLoad: Get Automated Help

Sometimes you might be "fearful" of using email more in customer support as you don't have the time or resources...

February 3, 2006

Manage Multiple USB Devices: Place Them On the Network

The traditional scenario of a USB device is that you have one or more USB devices connected to one PC...

February 3, 2006

Sony's WAN Notebooks...soon to be reviewed

Right now I'm using a Gateway notebook with a Verizon wireless broadband access card. In my office I can use...

February 1, 2006

Converting from Microsoft Office to Star Office: Tools

If you are thinking of turning your office from Microsoft Office to Star Office you will need to consider converting...

February 1, 2006

The "Default" Option is not always best in security

Whether you are using a firewall (software or appliance), anti-virus product or any other security tool, it's important that you...