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I recently found an online service with powerful editing tools for tweaking photos. It’s called Picnik and it’s truly awesome. It’s free to use and registration is not required, not even to access its fairly active user forum. It also works with any files you have in jpg format. So whenever I...
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I got quite a few positive comments about my last post which talked about ways to find temporarily misplaced files. My suspicions were correct that you’re pretty much like me and from time to time you have trouble locating something that you’re quite sure is somewhere on your computer. Today I’ve got...
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Last month I wrote about Evernote, a free service that helps you organize and search your photos, audios, videos, notes, and web site bookmarks. I hope you’ve tried it out and that it’s been saving you a lot of time and energy. But what about all the files and folders full of letters, contracts, ad...
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While Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet today, using it is not always the best way to find what you’re looking for. There’s a lot of outdated, misleading, and simply erroneous information that shows up on the search engine results. Did you know that Google indexes...
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If you’re like most of us, you write yourself notes to remind you of things. Things to do. Things to buy. Things to tell other people. Things you see on the Internet. You write these messages on sticky notes and scratch paper. Maybe you type some of them...
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There was an interesting discussion last week on the email list about how to provide toll-free inbound calling when working with clients in other countries. I thought I’d take a few minutes today to explain a little about some of the suggestions that were offered. (Note: You’ll need to evaluate these services on your...
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That’s the motto of Dial2Do, a free voice-to-text service that lets you make a phone call to record reminders and send email and text messages. Since I often think of things I need to do or tell someone while I’m away from my desk or out of the office, this has become...
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If you’re running your coaching business from your home (or thinking about starting a home-based practice), you might have some security and privacy concerns. I urge you to consider your specific situation before deciding whether or not to use your home address or personal land line or cell phone number to conduct your...
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Hi, everyone! First of all, I’d like to thank Adela for inviting me to become a regular contributor to this blog. I had offered to do a guest post and she encouraged me to consider doing a sort of test gig for three months. After only a slight bit of arm twisting,...
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