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Moving Your Computer or Office? Eliminating the Aggravation

by Jo Golden on July 20, 2010

in Business,Professionals

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If you’re moving your computer workspace, across the country or across the room, things can go wrong. The tips below will go a long way towards eliminating aggravation, lost time, and worst of all—lost data.

1. Back up your data.

2. Lifehacker says: Back up your data. If you need a visual (whether or not you liked Sex in the City) you can watch Carrie lose her mind when she didn’t have a backup on YouTube.

3. Oh yeah, backup your data, maybe with one of these offline backup tools. You can never tell when disaster will strike, so before you make any major change to your computer (including installing new software) it is prudent to have a full backup of your data and (preferably) the system itself. Read the full post →

Tagged as: applications/services, How To, making life easier, security/privacy

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3 Simple Rules of Email List Etiquette

by Tracey Holinka on June 22, 2010

in Business

Here’s a great video from MailChimp on Email List Etiquette.

We love the MailChimp monkey so much that we pay a monthly fee for their services. You can take MailChimp for a spin by signing up for a free version.

Tagged as: applications/services, How To, marketing

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6 Lucky Links for Free and Low Cost Mac Apps

April 16, 2010
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Use these lucky (cuz we did all the work) links from our collection on delicious to find some great low cost and free applications for your Mac®. Do you have another one to recommend? Add a comment and let us know. 1. Uninstalling applications on a Mac is easy compared to a Windows® machine. CleanApp [...]

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Google Chrome—Speed, Security, & Ease of Use

April 6, 2010
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I recently made the switch from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome on both my Mac® & Windows® machines. Although I have been using Google Chrome on my Windows computer, I held out on my Mac because of the lack of Chrome extensions for the Mac. Chrome extensions are like Firefox Add-ons—they add additional functionality and customization to the browser. As more [...]

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Meet, Work & Learn Online

February 17, 2010
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At Chaos To Clarity we hold many meetings online, deliver content through online classes, and generally rely on the Web to collaborate in-between. Whether it comes down to surviving snowmageddon, avoiding horrible traffic in the D.C. area, or working with clients across the country, GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar have become our vehicles of choice.

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Free is Not Always Good for Business

February 3, 2010
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With the decision of the New York Times to move to an online subscription model, I thought it timely to repost a piece I wrote in April 2009 on why free is not always a good business model. In late February 2009 at the Future of Web Apps conference,  Jason Fried of 37signals “stressed to [...]

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6 Lucky Links for Free and Low Cost Mac Applications

January 22, 2010
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Use these lucky (cuz we did all the work) links from our collection on delicious to find some great low cost and free applications for your Mac®. Link Friday is a regular feature. Do you have another one to recommend? Add a comment and let us know. 1. Uninstalling applications on a Mac is easy [...]

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5 Lucky Links for Free and Low Cost PC Applications

January 15, 2010
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Use these lucky (cuz we did all the work) links from our collection on delicious to find some great low cost and free applications for your Windows® PC. Link Friday is a regular feature. Do you have another one to recommend? Add a comment and let us know. 1. UltraMon™ helps you manage multiple monitors. [...]

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