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SmartPhone cameras can easily become effective business tools, and this article will show you how…

“Boy, is my computer S L O WWW.” “Some of my programs don’t run at all.” “The internet just crawls.” Have you experienced these problems? One person purchased a new computer because the old one was so slow. In a couple of weeks the new computer was slow too. It wasn’t the computer, it was computer viruses. What do to...

“I know Excel like the back of my hand. Access, never used it. But I have 20 gargantuan spreadsheets and it takes 10 minutes to calculate each one, and if I make a mistake, it takes forever to find it. My accountant says I should be using Access Database instead. How can I determine when to use a Spreadsheet VS a Database? Just what are the benefits???”

Mobile phones have given us more freedom; we no longer have to stay close by a fixed landline when waiting for an important call. They've also given many people a sense of greater security; if your car breaks down or someone seems to be following you, you can call for help. But there's another, darker side to the security issue. Whether you have a fancy smart phone that's really a full-fledged hand-held computer or just the cheapie model that your cell phone carriers provides at no extra charge, the cell phone that you take with you everywhere you go could be posing a threat to your privacy. Check this out...

Here is an insanely useful trick for scheduling appointments in Microsoft Outlook. What? You’re not using Outlook to schedule appointments? It’s so easy and it will keep you from either missing appoints or being late for an important date, and this is how we do it…

The other day I received a spreadsheet with critical information on it. It only had 5 rows, from A1:A5, but it had 37 columns, from A1:AM5. The data was great, but how do you deal with that? That’s the equivalent of 5 pages wide, scotched taped end to end! The data would make much more sense if it was displayed Vertically instead of Horizontally, and this is how we do it…

Do you often find yourself typing the same phrase over and over again? For example, let's say you work for the Southern Chesterfield Regional High School District Board of Education. Just entering the name of your employer can become quite time-consuming.

But you don't have to manually type the entire name of your organization each time you use it in a Microsoft Word document. Instead, you can add it to Word's list of AutoText entries, and you'll never have to type the entire name again, and this is how we do it:

A lot of beginning and intermediate Access users know how to create forms, queries, and reports. However, when it comes to figuring out how to create a professional-looking main menu (a.k.a., the Switchboard) for your database, you might be a little frustrated. But it’s not really that hard, you can do it, and this is how we do it…

Access 2000 makes it easy to set up a user-friendly Switchboard for your existing project. Here's how:

Virtual PBX phone system allow small business organizations get the advantage of all the communication capabilities of an expensive phone system without buying an expensive phone system. How does that work???