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Death by PowerPoint

PowerPoint iconHow many times have you sat through a seminar or conference presentation that was totally boring? Chances are, PowerPoint had a lot to do with the cause of your frustration. Whether you're presenting to an audience of 100 or at a one-on-one prospect meeting, you can use PowerPoint to help get your "point" across. This technology works quite well, even in smaller venues, but can be quite deadly if used the wrong way. Read more...

Making Your Email Private and Secure

IPadlock artn the vast number of technology advancements over the last 10 to 20 years, which one has done more for almost-immediate communications than email? Yet, tens of millions of messages are sent every day without much concern about the security and availability associated with very private information. Read more...

Tweets Be Gone

Using Twitter is a good idea, even for accountants. There are a few tools that will enhance your use of this shorthand messaging system. For example, there are times when you want to delete old tweets. This is accomplished by logging in to your Twitter account and deleting one at a time. When deleting one or two, this is easy. When you want to change the focus of a twitter and instead of tweeting about debits, you want to tweet about credits, there could be hundreds or even thousands of old tweets that need to be erased.

 

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Top Tech Questions for Penny Pinchers: Part 2

penny artThe last time we looked at five questions that penny pinchers ask before spending their hard earned cash on technology that probably won't do everything they're hyped to do. Here are five more.

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Boogie Is Not Just a Dance

There continues to be talk and lots of wishes for a paperless office. There are many software programs, such as: OneNote, Sticky Notes, and EverNote. These all work well when you have the computer on. Sharing these notes takes a little more effort. Leaving notes on the refrigerator requires clips to hold paper scraps or write-on boards or cork bulletin boards with stick pins. Read more...

Top Tech Question for Penny Pinchers: Part 1

Stuff that doesn’t work – that’s what most technology is. Printers that sPenny pinchertop printing. Applications that don’t do what they promised. Computers that freeze up. Thank God Microsoft doesn’t build airplanes or we’d have 747’s dropping out of the sky like flies. Unfortunately, when a relied-on piece of technology, either software or hardware, goes bad it can cripple a small business and cost you a lot of unnecessary money. A good penny pincher will ask himself some hard questions before buying any new technology. Here are few….

 

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Apps is a Noun - Location

satellite artYou can run, you can hide. However, if you are willing, you andanyone else can discover where you are at any time. You can see this capability in action on any episode of the multicity hits like CSI and NCIS.Just to be clear, to be located requires your GPS device to be on and within range of a cellular or wireless signal. When you want to really hide, turn off the device or leave home without it. You can also give your device to someone else, so when the CSI investigator locates the device, it will not be you that has been located.

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App is a Noun - Search

The current storehouse of iPhone Apps is climbing past 225,000. Mix in the Android and Microsoft Windows platforms and the Apps numbers will grow exponentially for a very long time. My previous article identified categories of applications that are being used and will be used by the accounting community. In this article, the application focus is SEARCH.  There may be a few cave dwellers somewhere that have not used search to discover a word definition, a restaurant, or some federal or state law statutory requirements. Readers of The Progressive Accountant know that search is an integrated feature of the publication. TPA provides search to locate an article by title, by a specific category, or by a specific writer. Read more...

A Look at Scanning Essentials

Howard BrownMulti-function devices that can scan in color are great. But a tip to firms that use them: do yourself a favor and turn off the color when you scan. That's the advice of Howard Brown, chief technology officer of Doc-it, a document management software company, as he covered a number of tips regarding the topic of best practices in scanning documents.

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Best Practices for Putting Spam in its Place

For those of us using email ten to fifteen years ago when the concept was still relatively new, no one envisioned that Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or Spam as it is more commonly referred to would be something most Internet users would grow to hate. In the early days of email, it was fun to forward around stuff that had questionable value and we didn’t think anything of doing this. Almost anything that we received which we thought was neat/fun/cool, we would forward to all our friends for the laugh value. Read more...

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