Are you aware that The Small Business Jobs Act (SBJA) of 2010 may allow you to expense up to $500,000 of section 179 property during the 2010 and 2011 tax year? The year end is a great time for you to review your IT to see whether or not you have the right equipment in [...]
It’s that time of year that we start our end of year review and cleanup our files and contracts to get “our house in order” for the New Year. If you’re not sure where to start, check out our article “Cleaning out the Closet – Getting rid of data you don’t need, keeping what you [...]
Email can sometimes contain sensitive and personal information. So wouldn’t it be great if we can password protect some of those sensitive emails? You can password protect those sensitive emails so that if a friend or guest is using your computer they wont be able to see those emails. Luckily, Outlook has that option. Here [...]
Your Blackberry device has a software to backup and restore your BlackBerry’s data; you can pick the backup location to make a copy of your E-mail, calendar and other data on your BlackBerry. Software can be downloaded from the Internet to your desktop or laptop. The URL for the download is http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/desktop/ **Before You Download** [...]
I don’t know about you, but our servers, desktops and laptops have accumulated a lot of stuff – programs, E-mail, documents, pictures, data files, downloads etc. Once in a while, we just have to clean house and get it in order. At the same time, I am nervous about getting rid of something, because like [...]
1) When leaving laptop unplugged make sure you have the power settings set to max battery or Portable/laptop profile under windows control panel’s power options. Go to Start –> Control Panel Click on Power Options click here to view power option screen Change the duration of turn, off monitor , system standby and System hibernates based on [...]
Our customers are usually pretty careful when using their systems – they run backups to protect their data and call us if something doesn’t look right. But every so often I get this call: Susan (Client): “Something happened to our system – I think the server is down.” Me: “What Happened? “ Susan: “I don’t [...]
Part III -Continuing our story of how we made SharePoint work for us. We created a “Sales” site tab on our SharePoint Site that has a folder for things that we need to help us sell – customer financing, opportunities, quote templates, sales training, quoting tools etc. Each “component” of the sales process has its [...]
Now with phones that store unlimited amounts of data, memorizing numbers has become a thing of the past. Since all our contacts are stored in our phones, many of us run into trouble when we lose or brake these phones…and there go all our numbers! Here are a few ways to protect yourself from losing [...]
Continuing our story of how we made Sharepoint work for us. Our Sales Process and how Sharepoint helped us. Our sales process is pretty simple: 1. We talk with our clients about how to become more profitable or efficient using things they already have or how to implement an idea that they have (e.g. all that [...]
