5 Ways To Keep Your Laptop Running – Without Plugging It In On the road, in the airport, at a client’s site, or simply at home on the couch. These are places you can’t – or don’t want to – plug your laptop in. Want to keep your laptop running as long as possible without [...]
How Much Work Are Your Employees Really Getting Done? Interruptions come in many forms. Phone calls, emails, faxes, colleagues, vendors. And once a person is interrupted, it can take as much as 30 minutes to get back on track. According to a recent study from the University of California, employees have an average of only [...]
Poor Patching Is The #1 Security Threat For Business PCs According to Symantec’s 2009 security review, the biggest single threat to computer security is a user’s failure to apply new security patches when they become available. A “patch” is simply a software fix to a known security bug in a software program. Once a vulnerability [...]
Shiny New Gadget of the Month The Hood PC It’s a hat. For your laptop. If you’ve ever tried to work outside on a bright sunny day, you know there is one factor that makes it nearly impossible to see the screen – the glare.
A Quick Way To “Learn Your Lesson” A Cold Lesson A family owned a parrot that had picked up some naughty words and squawked them at the top of its voice. Nothing seemed to shut it up. One day the minister was due to visit the home. The mother, in a panic, stuck the parrot [...]
Are You A Manager Or A Leader? Modern leadership guru, Warren Bennis, said, “Managers are the people who do things right and leaders are the people who do the right thing.” To run a business well, you need both. Employees, finances, sales, marketing, operations and, yes, I.T. all need BOTH a manager AND a leader. [...]
These days, getting up-to-date information from your contacts isn’t easy. On top of managing your e-mail and phone calls, now you have to check Facebook, Twitter, My Space, and Linked-In just to make sure you don’t miss something. It’s enough to make your head spin.
Communication Is Key An elderly farmer went to the attorney’s office and said he wanted to get a divorce. The attorney asked if he had any grounds. “Yeah, I got about 240 acres,” the farmer said. The attorney replied, “But, I mean do you have a case?”
Free Backup Check Reveals The Truth Have you ever lost an hour or two of work on your computer because it crashed? Now imagine if you lost days or weeks of work – or imagine losing your client database, financial records, and all of the work files your company has ever produced or compiled. Imagine [...]
Shiny New Gadget of the Month Asus Videophone Touch It’s the next generation of mobile phone: The mobile video phone. For the busy entrepreneur on the go this device could mean more face-to-face meetings and a more personalized conference call experience without being confined to the office.
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