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Working Smarter With Microsoft Office

Are you using Microsoft Office integration to put an end to busy work?  Read more

Working Smarter With Microsoft Office

Are you using Microsoft Office integration to put an end to busy work?  Read more

The Processed Word

Answers to the most frequently asked questions about word processing.  Read more

Web Development on the Cheap

A technology analyst explains that getting your company on the World Wide Web doesn't have to be difficult or costly.  Read more

New Design Program Offers Ready-Made Brochures, Letterheads

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Credit Card Cuts and the Rise of Local Currency

Card providers slash limits. The WSJ has some disturbing examples of how cr...  Read more

Product Roundup: Focusing on Growth

It is a lot easier to focus on business growth when you first make quality, low maintenance decisions regarding hardware, software, and facilities.  Read more

Memo to Microsoft: Widen Your Margins

This was pointed out to me by my friend, Chad Washburn, at the Naples Botanical Gardens in Florida. Microsoft Word's default margins are set at 1....  Read more

Doc or Docx? Which Office Format to Use

For those using older versions of Microsoft Word, or other non-Microsoft word processing software, the new .docx format can be a real pain. It has caused dis...  Read more

Keeping in Touch With Smartphones

Our new travel columnists review two new smartphones.  Read more

Putting a Price on Software "Savings"

Software companies make extravagant claims about how their products benefit your bottom line. Here's how to make sense of it all.  Read more

Choosing a Content-Management System

A CMS can be the backbone for your online presence, helping your company store, organize, and share content via the Web.  Read more

3 Remote Tech-Support Services

Create your own virtual IT department.  Read more

How to Red-Line a Contract

How to keep a level head and a steady hand when editing a business contract.  Read more

More Show, Less Tell

A company president finds a new presentation software package provides too much text and not enough action.  Read more

The 4 Best Business Scanners

If your company is storing more data in the cloud these days, a desktop scanner that reproduces documents in high resolution could come in handy. We tested f...  View slideshow

BlackBerry Applications for Business

By adding new applications, such as GPS and location-based services, businesses can now distribute BlackBerrys to staff and locate and dispatch workers, mana...  Read more

In Memoriam

They sold us surfboards and sports cars, Linux, chicken, Miracle-Gro, and vacations among the Eskimo. A fond look back at the remarkable entrepreneurs who di...  Read more

Wired Kingdom

A "techno-taxidermist" explains how she has gained an advantage in her business with technology.  Read more

10 Tech Innovations to Help Your Business

The word “innovation” is meaningless unless it actually helps your business. As a contributing technology writer for the magazine, I come across brillian...  View slideshow

Free Tech Programs on the Web that Work

Rather than cough up cash for pay software, many small businesses are taking advantage of hundreds of free downloadable or online applications now available....  Read more

Should Your Company Switch to Online Banking?

Many small businesses are still using paper checks sent through the mail to settle their accounts. But online banking can save time and effort, and improve c...  Read more

Getting the Most from Banking Online

Many small businesses are still using paper checks sent through the mail to settle their accounts. But online banking can save time and effort, and improve c...  Read more

Building Applications with AJAX

Programming using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is behind some of the most popular applications online -- and it can help make your site stand out too.  Read more

Virtual Classrooms, Actual Education

For a straightforward concept, e-learning has a lot of aliases: distance learning, online education, computer-based training, and "the virtual classroom,"...  Read more

Virtual Classrooms, Actual Education

For a straightforward concept, e-learning has a lot of aliases: distance learning, online education, computer-based training, and "the virtual classroom,"...  Read more

Beware of Fake Emails From The BBB

The Internet bottomfeeders are at it, again! Apparantly, there's an email c...  Read more

How to Wipe Your Hard Drive before Junking Your PC

A step-by-step process to help make sure those critical files aren't available to anyone else.  Read more

How to Wipe Your Hard Drive before Junking Your PC

A step-by-step process to help make sure those critical files aren't available to anyone else.  Read more

How Well Do You Know Your Customers?

An entrepreneur realizes that she hasn't paid enough attention to her best customers.  Read more

Software Help Around the Clock

Third-party service that troubleshoots more than 1,000 software programs, 24 hours a day.  Read more

Royalty-Free Design Templates for Macs

Dec. 4, 2006 -- StockLayouts, a Beaverton, Ore.-based graphic-design and production company, has released an online library of royalty-fr...  Read more

Great No-Cost Software

Paying is passé. Use these 10 free software programs instead  Read more

The Paperless Office

Two new ways to send a fax  Read more

Layoff Stories and Enterprise iPhone Apps

Scenes from a layoff. For struggling firms like Ram Tool, a small family-owned manufacturing company that the New York Times profiles Read more

Hot Fixes For Those Iced Out Of Office 2003

Microsoft has issued a slate of hot fixes for Office 2003 users finding themselves unable to access their own files. The story was first reported ...  Read more

Designing Success

It's not just the iPod and Target toilet brushes. Even small companies with prosaic products are finding that design can be the difference between success an...  Read more

MS Office 2007: Worth the Investment?

Microsoft's latest office productivity suite has great new tools and menus so you can create better and faster documents. But will the design changes zap you...  Read more

5 Great Software Packages for Bootstrappers

Free is a lovely word; unfortunately, it's often followed by a disappointing product. We have found 5 great free apps that will help ...  View slideshow

Notebook View: How Do I Love Thee

When I learned about the Microsoft Office program called OneNote, I thought my dream had come true. OneNote allows you to keep dozens of documents in one ...  Read more