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How come my pictures look like a monkey took them? The following article will help you quickly learn how to take great pictures by paying attention to composition…

When the internet goes down for us or our customers, we ALWAYS request a “Root Cause - Corrective Action” report detailing what went wrong, how it was fixed, and what measures were taken to insure that it doesn’t happen again. We have been requesting them for years, and until recently, the only company that would oblige us was Nuvox (now WindStream). Now, a couple of other internet providers are coming around to our way of thinking. Guess what the top causes of downtime are?

With all the negative press about facebook, folks are wondering just what to do, or not do, to protect yourself from online preditors. This Consumer Report article list Seven "Thou Shalt Nots", and here they are...

FaceBook is great for staying in touch with friends and family. Many folks are having success keeping in contact with business acquaintances as well. But how can we communicate openly with our friends whilst maintaining a level of privacy?

In the past, FaceBook HAD excellent privacy tools. However, FaceBook recently changed critical policies and made other changes that exposes more of your information. How? What to do...

The biggest battle for outside sales and consultants is staying organized. When chaos becomes the rule of the day, you can quickly become inefficient, and frustrated, resulting in lost sales or billable hours. Keeping chaos at bay is not always an easy task. Murphy’s Law will take your feet out from under you at every corner. So how can you stay organized? There are many ways — and you might be surprised that it’s not all about checklists and to-do lists. It’s about working intelligently and efficiently.

Let’s take a look at some methods that will help you get through the day without chaos making you its lapdog.

I am so tired of hearing this: “The current state of the economy has forced many small businesses to rethink everything from company structure to daily overhead costs. Every small business must now ask themselves- what services are absolutely necessary for survival.” Boo hoo hoo.

They left out a the most important part:

Many purchased BlackBerrys because they thought that they were secure. Guess again. Hackers are finding many creative ways to spy on you through your BlackBerry.

Tyler Shields, a member of Veracode Research Lab, spends a lot of time picking apart BlackBerry devices, and what he found is very disappointing from a security standpoint…

FoxFire now commands 30% of the Desktop Browser market and there are gibillions of add-ons. After trying many different add-ons I have found that some can consume vast amounts of either processor power and RAM memory, leading to an experience which is not fun.  However, over time I have found several add-ons that are not only helpful, but are light on computer resources.

Check them out and tell me what you think:

Bob and Fred, two very young former sales reps, were passing the time ripping a difficult customer via private emails to each other. They said some terrible things and used language that would make a prison yard dog blush. Ya that bad!. Suddenly, Fred noticed their customer’s email address on the CC line. Freudianly, they included their customer in every nasty email. Oooops! What happened next...

Every thy to concatenate text and dates only to end up with a reall mess? This is how we do it...