One of the questions that I get asked often is how to invite clients and prospects to an event.  Most people are familiar with evite.com.  Evite.com is more of a personal invitation system for things like parties, showers, etc.  I point people to EventBrite.com for handling the invitation and guest list functions for a business […]

I have completed the setup of my new development laptop.  It took roughly 16 hours and countless DVD swaps to get all of the development software that I use installed.  (Quick list: Visual Studio.net, SQL Server 2008, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Office 2007 Enterprise, every web browser known to man and a long list of […]

I recently found a great deal on DealNews.com for 30% off laptops in the HP online store.  I ended up getting a fantastic HDX 18t with an 18″ screen, Bluray player, 4 Gigs of RAM and more.  The 30% off coupon shaved $681 dollars off the total price of the laptop, so instead of spending […]

Everybody freaked out when cameras were added to cell phones.  Nobody wanted to see you holding your phone in the locker room, that’s for sure.  Well, it is about to get even more interesting.  Pocket video camcorders that record in high definition are available for less than $200 at your local Costco.  Prepare yourself.  These […]

Many of you use Microsoft Outlook to manage your email, contacts and calendar. If you haven’t heard about Xobni (inbox spelled in reverse) then you will appreciate this post. Xobni is a powerful Outlook plugin that lets you manage your email history much more effectively.  When you click on an email, Xobni grabs the email […]

We all worry about losing our data.  The crazy thing is that we don’t take the 30 minutes that it would take to put in place a good backup solution for the data on our laptops or workstations.  I do web development, webinar presentations, and a million other things that take a lot of time […]

I buy a lot of cables.  I buy a TON of cables.  HDMI cables for home theater, USB cables and USB cable extenders, speaker cable, firewire cables, and the list goes on and on.  Try walking into a Best Buy or similar brick and morter retailer and you will pay TWO to THREE TIMES more […]

I have a great Dropbox tip that I learned the hard way.  I tried to make a simple move of a few shared folders from one level to another…  my mistake was that I did it on my LOCAL machine as opposed to going through the WEB interface.  These folders were the top level share folders.  So when […]

Here are 10 top tips for this week: 1 ) Check out Shawn’s post about Wordles.  Interesting! 2 ) Be sure to claim your profile on Google. You will need a Gmail account. 3 ) Be sure to back up your RoboForm2Go files on your U3 USB Key with their free online sync service, RoboForm […]