So you have an older machine which died. You know you’re not going to have the machine fixed, but there is data you need to save from the now defunct beast. Provided the drive itself is not dead you shouldn’t have a problem getting your old information off. You might need a bit of very inexpensive hardware but it will be a useful addition to any computer tool belt. Read the rest of this entry »

In the continuing series on small ways to make your content pop and turn the design of your site into an asset rather than an issue. Today’s little post is going to pose a couple of small things for you to consider, and general rules that you should try to consider when you move things around.

Location, Location, Location:

If you are part of the English speaking world chances are that your eyes naturally flow from left to right and top to bottom when you look at a website, unless you have been reading a ton of Hebrew, or Japanese most people’s eyes travel across a page like this. So where you have the content on the site dictates whether people will act on it first or not at all. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we will be taking a look at productivity applications, as a continuation of the Tech in Tough Times Series. Microsoft office is the world standard in business, that is a fact. If your solution to document preparation doesn’t work with office, as seamlessly as possible then you are going to have a rough road ahead. In that spirit I’m going to introduce you to two free solutions that fit different parts of the need for word processing,presentation design and spreadsheet management, in short the most basic productivity applications. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the first in a series of articles focusing on trying to get by with a little less.

In a time flush with horror stories of job loss and debt it would be ridiculous to think that if something breaks or is a bit old we would just mindlessly push off to buy another one. Computers are expensive, software products shouldn’t be disposable, neither should technology. Its with all of this in mind that we start a new series of articles here at the podcast aiming on getting by with less funding. Please feel free to submit your questions or comments either on this article or by clicking the email button on the page and asking a question.

If you are running a PC you NEED antivirus, but the yearly licensing for most AV programs is enough to make me stutter, fifty dollars a year? I understand that there are costs involved in owning any computer and that no machine should ever be without an AV solution. So what to Do? Enter two quick and simple software packages that do the job. Read the rest of this entry »