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Hard Drive Failure: Are You Prepared?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The New Year greeted my by having my main internal hard drive fail on New Year’s Eve. I spent a lot of New Year’s Day installing Windows on a new hard drive, installing programs, etc, but it all went smoothly.
Are YOU prepared for your hard drive to crash?
Any time your computer is broken is [...]

Cool Tool: CutePDF Writer - Free PDF Creator

Friday, June 8th, 2007

If you need to create PDF files, you should check out the free CutePDF Writer
Click Here to download it
It installs as a new printer driver, and anything you can print to paper, you can “print” to a PDF file. When you click File=>Print, you just select it from the Printer drop-down list and it [...]

Cool Tool: Automate Repetitive Typing

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Anything that saves time or energy is cool with me.
Here’s how to save your fingers from having to re-type the same blocks of text over and over. It’s called “ShortKeys”, and you can download the free “Lite” version by clicking here.
Here’s what it does: If you end a lot customer support emails with:
I hope that [...]

New Free WordTracker Tool To Find Most-Searched Headlines

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Are you familiar with WordTracker? It tracks how often words are searched for, which is very valuable information if you’re trying to get be found in the search engines for the most important related keywords to your industry.
They now offer Free Keyword Suggestion Tool in addition to their paid services which does quite a lot. [...]

Free Software Alternatives

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

A friend bought a new laptop and called me today because it didn’t come bundled with the usual software tools (Microsoft Word, Excel, etc). So I told her about the free alternatives like Open Office, in case she didn’t want to plunk down the big bucks for the commercial versions.
If you need software, this list [...]

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