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In the last 2 years we learned that “shovel ready” doesn’t mean squat. But “earth moving” is a different matter, and there are several projects that affect the Summerville economy where earth is moving, tractors are rolling, pipe is going in the ground, you can hear it and you can see it for yourself. Here are 10 project you should know about:

Websites work. No matter what your business or profession, a website can generate business, promote goodwill among customers and prospects, and deliver strong marketing messages - whether your business is small, large or in-between, well-established or brand-new.

People use the Web in greater and greater numbers, more and more every day. Even if you are a completely local small business, service, contractor or consultant, odds are people have used search engines to look for your web site - and if you don't have a web site... well, you get the picture….

Can your Webcam be Used to Spy on You? A big story making the headlines this past week involves a school district in Pennsylvania that spies on its students, at home, by using the webcams in their school-issued laptop computers. A student has filed a lawsuit over it and according to reports, the FBI is investigating to determine whether federal laws against wiretapping or unauthorized computer access were broken. But there is more….

Don’t get me wrong, I like my Windows Mobile Phone. However, there are some really kool things about the iPhone that makes we wish the two giants could get together to make one super-phone, and here is my wish list….

One of the big objections to running Debian Server is the possible future need to run .NET and ASP applications. However, Mono makes this all possible:

While keeping up with the daily paper flow in one's In-Box is a challenge for most businesses, the same situation is repeating itself in email In-Boxes. It is not unusual, during our time management training seminars and consultations, to hear that hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of email messages have collected in someone's inbox.

Each time you fail to make an immediate decision on what to do with a note, it becomes clutter, just as the stacks of paper that accumulate in our offices do. But What To Do???

This may seem beyond simplistic - until the day you can’t remember how to do it. If you need to create a multiple-line entry in a cell, you can’t just press [Enter] to insert a line break, since that will propel you into the next cell. Instead, you have to press [Alt][Enter].

Whilst life itself is cram packed with stuff you have to do, there are things in Word that people do that they don't have to, and here are some things to try (or not try)...

Let Access control the horizontal and the vertical. When you create an Access form with a wizard,
the controls might be set too close together. Likewise, as you add or move form controls, they
may not be spaced equally from one another. While you could move each one individually until it
looks right, you can save time by having Access adjust the spacing for you, and this is how we do
it:

In 1988, a local remanufacturer of automobile automatic transmissions, WTI (Williams Technologies (now Caterpillar)), invited Toyota to come to their facilities in Summerville, SC to present the idea of using remanufactured transmissions instead of new transmissions as warranty replacements. The use of Remanufactured transmissions instead of new would reduce Toyota’s replacement cost by 50% and would create a lucrative opportunity for WTI and the local economy. However…