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When To Hire a Professional
Not having the knowledge, skills, or time are obvious reasons to hire a professional. For instance, you may not have the knowledge or skills to re-roof your house. It seems obvious to hire a...
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What’s In a Title?
We’re in the Information Age, a knowledge-based society. We can learn about anything at any time and we want to know it all. Or do we? Do we even need to in order to live a happy, productive life? If...
View ArticleChoosing a Name For Your Business
Trying to decide on the name of my business was agonizing. I couldn’t decide whether to name it something descriptive or to use my own name. I wrote out all sorts of combinations. It should be an easy...
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What I Learned About Security This Weekend
It is sad that some people are determined to wreak havoc on the lives of others. Whether their objective is to be destructive or to use your site as a medium to make money, the result is the same –...
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Why I Like Todoist
Lists, lists, lists. Should I use large yellow pads? Small yellow pads? Steno notepads? Should I separate household chores from business tasks? I like to cross off tasks as they are completed. That...
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Why I Love Trello
I have been using Todoist lately for my To Do lists. But I just discovered Trello, which goes beyond lists. Trello is a free, web-based project management application which organizes your projects into...
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Google Reader Simplified My Life
I discovered Google Reader quite some time ago when I was wondering what that funny looking symbol was and how to use it. Wikipedia says: RSS Rich Site Summary (originally RDF Site Summary, often...
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IFTTT – IF This Then That
IFTTT is a service that enables customers to connect channels (i.e. Facebook, Evernote, Weather, Dropbox, etc.) with personally created or publicly shared profiles known as “recipes.” IFTTT enables...
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Google Reader Is Retiring
So by now you’ve undoubtedly heard that Google Reader is retiring July 1, 2013. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it! I had just promoted it in a recent blog. One thing we know about life is that...
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Brute Force Attacks May Be Affecting You
What Is a Brute Force Attack? Brute force attacks use a repetitive method of trial and error to guess a person’s user name and password. Due to the number of possible combinations of letters, numbers...
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A Guide to Setting Up WordPress
If you haven’t set up WordPress before, you will no doubt wonder what to do. If you have set up WordPress before, but haven’t set up very many, this will serve as a guide. Let’s go behind the scenes to...
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What Will Your “Phrase of the Year” Be For 2014?
As 2013 comes to a close, many of us are reflecting upon what we accomplished in 2013. It’s a great time to think about what we did right and what we did wrong (or at least what we could have done...
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What Was the Best Thing You Did For Your Business in 2013?
So you want your business to be more profitable. You want more traffic. You want more sales. You look on the internet and find every method and opinion imaginable. They all tell you that you MUST do...
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What’s New With WordPress?
New versions of WordPress follow a general pattern: odd numbered releases are mostly back-end upgrades, and even numbered releases carry with them feature additions, front-end upgrades, and changes....
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What Would You Like to Achieve in 2014?
The New Year brings with it a time of reflection. What did we do right last year? What did we do wrong (or at least what could we have done better)? People make resolutions to lose weight, to save...
View ArticleOh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr Seuss
Today is Dr Seuss’ birthday. It is also Read Across America Day. I loved reading Dr Seuss books to my boys when they were growing up. They seemed so silly at the time, but if you can get past the...
View ArticleAre You Still Using Windows XP?
One of my favorite versions of Windows is Windows XP…or should I say “was.” On April 8, 2014, Microsoft is ending support for XP, which means there will be no more updates. If hackers find a major...
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Web Applications I Love – Organization & Productivity
Organization and Productivity I only recommend products and services that I have used myself. All of the following are FREE. DropBox – What a great way to share large files with clients! You get 2G of...
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3 Reasons You’re Not As Productive As You’d Like To Be
I love days when I’m productive! Checking things off my to-do list; accomplishing things that I’ve wanted to do for awhile. But there are days when I can’t seem to complete – or even start – a project....
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Password Security: Protect Your Site
It seems that everything requires a password these days. In fact, in this digital age, we’re drowning in passwords! Financial accounts, shopping carts, online memberships, the list goes on. In an...
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