Does your Internet Explorer browser ever crash, get hung up or just take a really long time to load?  Do you find yourself closing and reopening stalled web pages?  Are you hitting your refresh button just to try to speed the internet along? Chances are you will be able to quickly fix most, if not [...]

It a lot of cases I find myself researching businesses online.  As a salesman I used online tools to find prospective businesses and contacts to call on.  As a manager I ran reports for market intelligence by industry, size, locations, etc. for my sales teams. Business owners may also want to check on the key [...]

Your company’s domain name, or it’s address on the internet, is an important part of your brand, image, and message.  It is akin to a piece of property or some other form of capital that you want to protect.  That is why it is important to know the vital details about your domain name, including [...]

Welcome back to my series on Must-Have applications for the Android Phone OS platform. This edition will cover useful utilities for using your phone as more than a phone. If you haven’t had a chance you can read Part 1 here. Wi-Fi Analyzer This app lets you analyze Wi-Fi networks around you to find open [...]

If you’ve tried to access Google or Wikipedia this morning you’ve noticed that the pages are blacked out. Many of the highest traffic sites have coordinated an effort to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act commonly referred to as (SOPA). The proposed law would limit access to sites that host copyright protected content illegally such [...]

I find myself searching for this answer all the time – How to turn on or off the pop-up email previews in outlook?  There is nothing worse than hosting a go to meeting and having a flashing preview of all your email for all to see and you can’t go shut it off because you [...]

Do you remember the good old days of Microsoft Word 97?  If you were like me you knew every trick of the trade when it came to things like headers, footers, margins, page breaks and the like. Now in the newest release of Word I feel lost and confused.  The simplest formatting error sends me [...]

Ever wonder what distribution lists you are on?  Are you getting all the right notifications in your email from all the right groups?  I will show you in this blog how you can see exactly what distribution lists in your network you are a member of to double check that all the right company correspondence [...]

Ever wish for something a little more than those little red or green squiggles when it comes to tweaking your grammar in documents? Many years ago I stumbled upon a great free app called WordWeb as I was looking for a thesaurus program. After installing it I was impressed with how many useful things it [...]

Did you know that it’s possible to turn your Mac computer into a wifi hotspot without any 3rd party software? It’s super easy and you can even password protect. Here’s how! Open System Preferences from the Apple drop down menu at the top left of the screen Click on the “Sharing” pane From the drop [...]