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How use Valentine’s Day Ecards to Spread the Love and Do Good

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Doh! Did you forget to buy cards and send them?
It’s too late to send cards now, so it may be time to look into Valentine’s Day ecards.
Ecards have waned in popularity, but they’re still an efficient, eco-friendly way to let that special someone know that you’re thinking of him/her/them. And many ecard services now allow you to email, text, or Facebook message a greeting.

Here are some of the more popular services:

Hallmark – $5/month
JibJab […]

By |February 14th, 2017|Cloud Services|Comments Off on How use Valentine’s Day Ecards to Spread the Love and Do Good

iCloud Drive: Should You Trust Apple to Take Care of Your Storage?

You’re all Apple – Mac, iPhone, iPad – and you want to be able to access your documents on multiple devices. You may already know that you can use iCloud Drive to do that.

iCloud Drive is like Dropbox and Google Drive, with a dedicated folder on your Mac that syncs to the cloud. Until Apple’s Mac OS Sierra release, your only option to share files with your other devices was to save the files in […]

By |November 7th, 2016|Cloud Services|Comments Off on iCloud Drive: Should You Trust Apple to Take Care of Your Storage?

Who Else is Shopping Online and Loving the Pricing and Convenience?

Are you shopping online for almost everything?
It probably depends somewhat on your age. Most of us are not yet shopping online for furniture, home repair & home decorations, and jewelry but we are for books, music, movies, and electronics. Many of us are increasingly shopping online for clothes. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be buying your groceries (and everything else) online. If you have a family, you’re probably not […]

By |July 18th, 2016|Cloud Services|Comments Off on Who Else is Shopping Online and Loving the Pricing and Convenience?

Here is an Easy Way to Sync Information between Your Cloud Services

You may have heard of “The Cloud”. It’s a term that basically just means the Internet.
I am a big fan of cloud services. It’s magic to me, the way that the photos that I take with my cell phone appear on my PC when I get home, without having to connect any cables, and to have my work from my desktop PC instantly available to me on my laptop.
Your email, for example, is a cloud […]

By |July 6th, 2016|Cloud Services|Comments Off on Here is an Easy Way to Sync Information between Your Cloud Services

What Everyone Ought to Know About Office Alternatives

Microsoft Office has been a workhorse for years.
Many of us first became accustomed to it in our corporate work. If you’re still working in a corporate setting or if you’re creating detailed documents, spreadsheets, or presentations on a PC, there’s still nothing that beats Office for standard and more advanced content creation.
Office is not cheap.
A single license of Office Home and Student costs $120, but we’re often working on multiple devices these days. If you […]

How to Stay on Target with Your Goals

What is productivity?
Productivity means performing on target according to your goals and deadlines. Let’s say your goal is to create a social media presence and have twenty followers. You’ll need to set a deadline to achieve that goal, break it down into achievable tasks, and assign a due date for each task.

If you’re working unproductively, you won’t meet your goals by the deadline. This results in missed opportunities, loss of income, and perhaps a drop […]

By |May 23rd, 2016|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Task Management|Comments Off on How to Stay on Target with Your Goals

3 Ways to Keep Your Digital Life Organized

Have you ever found yourself wasting time and getting frustrated because you can’t find something on your computer?
And what if you don’t have your computer with you? Can you pull up that photo on your mobile device that you’d like to show off?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you were so efficient and organized that you don’t even have to think about how to find something?
You may not be able to get to the level […]

By |May 11th, 2016|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, File Management, Storage Management|Comments Off on 3 Ways to Keep Your Digital Life Organized

How to Use Evernote to Keep Email Organized

Email can be difficult to deal with in an efficient and organized way.
Keeping emails organized into folders can help you to find the right email conversation, as can using your email search tools. But email correspondence is just one part of the story. If you’re trying to put together the history of working with a client, for example, you’ll have to search separately for related client files and notes. It’s not difficult to do, but […]

By |May 3rd, 2016|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Email Management, Evernote|Comments Off on How to Use Evernote to Keep Email Organized

Three reasons to use Evernote for Team Collaboration

Evernote is a great organization system because you can organize your notes, documents, photos, and emails all in one place.

As an Evernote user, you have the option of sharing notes and notebooks with others. But for true collaboration with team members that gives you a shared work space, admin controls, and more, you need the Evernote for Business plan.

Your team members can add research notes, to-dos, points for follow-up, web clippings, etc. Members can initiate […]

By |April 27th, 2016|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Evernote|Comments Off on Three reasons to use Evernote for Team Collaboration

How to Recharge Your Brain Like an Evernote Employee

If you ever drive through Redwood City CA on Highway 101, you may notice the Evernote headquarters right beside the freeway.

Redwood City is better known as an enterprise technology hub, home of Oracle headquarters and its spin-offs. (You’ll see the Oracle headquarters down the road with its distinctive buildings. But, unless you work with enterprise databases, you probably won’t get that flash of recognition that you experience when you see that elephant logo.)

Evernote has only […]

By |April 26th, 2016|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Evernote|Comments Off on How to Recharge Your Brain Like an Evernote Employee