I am raising my prices. Recession’s are supposed to happen to recede is a natural ebb and flow of any system. We become leaner, and we reduce. Bruce Lee said: “Perfection leads to simplicity, it is the daily decrease not the increase.”
In a recession we cut back and remove things that are not necessary and [...]

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It seems so simple, yet Apple still has not addressed exporting contacts from it’s address book. I thought by the 5th update of OSX they would respond to a simple task, but alas no response.
If you consider you can’t copy and paste with the iPhone this should not be surprising.
I found a great application [...]

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Do you have a web page you need to to check back in on?
I had something shipped via UPS and I don’t want to find the email, click on the link and then see if the package is on time or has been delivered. With web clips I can take a snap shot of [...]

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds allow your readers to feed your blog posts to a reader like Google Reader. With a simple plugin you can enable RSS feeds on your Wordpress blog with Feedburner FeedSmith.
Feedburner.com explains this process:
For the best results using FeedBurner with your self-hosted WordPress site, we recommend the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin [...]

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Many of us would like to teach a class online and we can easily come up with 3-4 reasons why we can’t do it right now.  I found one really good reason to do it.  Check out this site I discovered called learnhub.
Finally a social learning site.
What class will you teach first?

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Whenever a problem comes up we need to get creative, because every problem is an opportunity. Sometimes seeing the opportunity can be very difficult and we need to open our minds to possibilities. I read a wonderful blog post titled “8+ Ways To Train Yourself To Be Creative”, on John’s Blog. John [...]

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How do you evaluate your backup system? How do you know if it will work when you need it?
I reccomend this checklist:
1. Is your backup automated?
If you need to take action to ensure your backup runs, chances are it won’t happen
2. Is the backup off site?
I live in San Francisco and earthquakes happen. Think up [...]

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How safe is your data?
Have you evaluated you data backup system lately?
I found a cool site to see how your backup system measures up here.

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I was watching a movie on my projector with my external speakers plugged in to my Macbook and as the movie ended I pulled the speaker cable out of my headphone jack to plug it back into my Air port express.
I’ve done this before with no problem.
This time the phone jack had a [...]

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