Articles, essays, reviews, and editorials about using computers gathered from user group leaders and members all around the world. You are encouraged to submit articles and reviews from your organization.
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Free Clip Art from Jumsoft... Yet more great clip art icons for your presentations and publishing projects. Freshly drawn, this clip is well worth a look
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Surviving the Economic Downturn The financial news of the past few weeks has left many a business owner panicked -- but David Giannett says you can actually use the economic downturn to create a better organization.
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60 Seconds: Crime gets a free ride from ICANN Over 800 spams in a single day -- I discover that nearly 200 of them advertise the SAME product, yet send the unweary victim to a different domain. One spammer has thousands of domains... but wait -- they change about every five days! Organized crime on the web is getting a free ride from ICANN by "Domain Tasting" ... here's how it works
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Freeway MUG Deal... Freeway producers offer a good opportunity for user groups to own Freeway, and give members a 25% discount...
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Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
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Pope Benedict XVI gets The Saint John's Bible in today's world of instant publishing, blogs, wikis, and all manner of desktop publishing wizards, and on-demand printing -- isn't it nice to learn that for the first time in 500 years, there is a bible written, illustrated and bound completely, 100%, by hand! ...
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Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
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Make your Money Dance Now there's a financial management for the Mac with a familiar checkbook-register interface and banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking and much more.
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60 Seconds: What if Star Wars? this morning's news brief footnote recognizing the twenty-fifth anniversary of President Reagan's "Star Wars" speech grabbed my attention. I was reminded of all the controversy stirred by that speech back in March of 1983. So I decided to dig it up and imagine where we would be today...
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You Control Leopard A lot of users flocked to this utility when it first came out. Now it's updated -- delivering various fixes to provide compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and its new features -- even creating custom menus!
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Developing a Business Plan Developing a Business Plan means Developing a Successful Business. But this can also apply to any organization, even your nonprofit user group or educational organization! Here are some basic ideas for making your plan better...
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Relationship Resolution Even the smartest, most hardworking entrepreneurs depend on other people for their success. Ty Freyvogel, founder of MakingSenseOfYourBusiness.com, suggests you make 2008 the year you start showing them you know that. Follow along with Ty as he presents his Ten Ways to Strengthen Critical Business Relationships
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Overhaul Your Project Management System If you can't prioritize the projects you already have, and make good decisions on selecting new ones, your organization will be in serious trouble. Rudolf Melik explains how to transform your project management "three ring circus" into a sane, smart, successful system.
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Five Business Tactics for 2008 So you say you want a resolution? Quint Studer, author of the bestseller Results That Last, offers five simple tips for turning it all around... fast. These leadership tactics can make for a pivotal business year -- business moves that not only improve your bottom line but actually have staying power! Five Business Tactics for 2008
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Benefits of Follow-Through Marketing Janice Jenkins writes about follow-through marketing experiences and why this can mean so much to your firm or organization -- she says: For all the business people reading this: Do what you promised to do!
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How to Market Without Marketing Contributing writer, Janice Jenkins shares her tips and tricks for busy people who don't have time for a marketing course. How to Market Without Marketing
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Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder User Group personality Maria O. Arguello shares her experiences with the new Flip Video -- next-generation video processing produces the highest quality mobile-compatible video while using minimal memory
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Digital Camera News George Engel warns about two faulty Kodak cameras, and stresses researching your purchases before you buy. George Engel sez: Research now, so you won't get hooked later...
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You Are the News! Tired of feeling unrepresented by the media machine? The solution is citizen journalism, which allows writers and viewers alike to decide for themselves what is timely, relevant, and newsworthy. Paul Sullivan, editor in chief of Orato.com, offers his insights... Five Reasons Why Citizen Journalism is a concept whose time has come
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Common Questions about Citizen Journalism Some Common Questions about Citizen Journalism and the Web Site That Gives It a Voice Paul Sullivan, editor of Orato.com takes a moment to tell us a little bit about this multi-faceted Web site and the future of citizen journalism.
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Ten Ways to "Get It Done" Richard Lepsinger presents ten keys to starting an "execution revolution" so you can "Get It Done" Every Day ... Goals and mission statements don't mean a thing if people can't back up the words with action.
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New Tutorial Videos These videos demonstrate exactly how easy to use and powerful these applications are. Learn how to digitize your LP collection using Sound Studio 3, as well as how to use Lineform's clean, uncluttered interface to create the most sophisticated vector illustrations!
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ClickN'READ Phonics ClickN'READ Phonics is an award-winning, patent-pending online reading program featuring a series of 100 fully-animated, interactive, and entertaining lessons that teach children, as well as adults, how to read
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Photo collage made easy You really didn't know it could be this easy! AKVIS version 5.0 of its photo collage plug-in AKVIS Chameleon is totally cool -- and a true breakthrough in photo collage creation. Works in Photoshop and Elements as well as any other Photoshop compatible software
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Tips for Making Software Available for Download The size of a file has a crucial effect on the amount of time a user needs to download it. Software sales, when counting on downloads to increase in quantity, are influenced by this factor. Adriana Iordan reveals vital information
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Security to cost you more in 08 Nobody thinks security, online crime, phishing and identity theft is a big deal. "It won't affect me" you say -- it will. A new survey Shows Security Budgets On The Rise -- 70% of IT pros plan increase spending on network security with next fiscal year. Guess who picks up the tab?
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Data rich and decision poor Almost every business is inundated with data that piles up higher and deeper on a daily basis. And when you're trying to solve a problem, sifting through it all can be frustrating at best and paralyzing at worst. Rudolf Melik offers a fresh perspective.
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Federal Shield Law Sen. Cornyn urges journalists to help in passing a strong federal shield law to help Professional Journalists -- important in light of the recent Democrat attacks on media journalists!
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Democrats Block Ban on Tax - Democrats have blocked the Internet Tax Freedom Act amendment which would have put a permanent ban on internet taxation -- a reversal of their support of Net Neutrality and Free Speech.
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Mac Companion The latest issue of macCompanion Magazine is free, PDF, download is around 105 pages with articles, games, software. Something Mac users should read
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Killer virtual tours Starting from digital images, the software's powerful central automatic stitching engine enables a diverse range of users to create high-quality panoramas and virtual tours
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Art Text If you do a lot of graphics, check out Art Text for creating textual graphics, high-quality headings, logos, web banners and buttons.
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Google's Good Writing Content Filter Joel Walsh writes: The web pages actually at the top of Google have only one thing clearly in common: good writing. Don't let the usual SEO sacred cows and bugbears, such as PageRank, frames, and JavaScript, distract you from the importance of good content.
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Video Marketing Tips The use of videos on the Internet brings numerous advantages. Marketing expert Adriana Iordan shares advantages, tips and tricks for video marketing tools and techniques.
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Small Business Marketing And Advertising Too often, small business advertising and marketing campaigns prioritize branding at the expense of direct response--i.e., actually getting leads and/or sales right now. That is almost always a foolish and even dangerous proposition.
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Tips on Writing a Good FAQ Adriana Iordan shares insight and tips on Writing a Good FAQ, those organized "collections" of valuable information you want your readers to learn
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Toon Boom Digital Pro Toon Boom - easy-to-use interface - the complete animation software for professionals, offering advanced content creation, animation and compositing capabilities within a single application.
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Guidelines for Writing Software Copyright Adriana Iordan, Web Marketing Manager at Avangate B.V. Avangate shares important details about copyright law and copyrighting your software - the right of a certain individual or business entity to make copies of a particular work
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Getting One-Way Inbound Links With search engines putting a damper on direct reciprocal links, the hunt for the elusive one-way inbound link is on. Content syndication expert Joel Walsh shares five major strategies for getting valuable one-way inbound links
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Designing an interactive PDF newsletter Publishing expert Rob Cubbon shares tips and tricks on how to use Adobe InDesign to make an interactive screen resolution PDF
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AdWords Campaigns? There can be no good commerce without proper marketing. Adriana Iordan shares tips and techniques for proper marketing to boost sales reaching a specific range of potential customers.
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Customers & Gaboon Vipers Trials and tribulations of an Apple Serviceman leads George Engel to share this humorous excerpt from his book "the Naked Serviceman" -- about support customers you don't want to hear from.
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AKVIS Noise Buster AKVIS Noise Buster -- Noise Suppression for Digital and Scanned Images - digital camera or scanner introduces digital noise - noise removal software removes noise while keeping fine details of a picture.
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It's All Geek To Me Maria O. Arguello from the Main Line Macintosh Users Group reviews the new show from David Pogue, NY Times technology columnist ... "brilliant, informative, and entertaining -- understandable, funny and non-intimidating"! Read Maria's review
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TinyBooks is back TinyBooks is a simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system for the Macintosh. It can now easily convert all TinyBooks documents created with previous versions of TinyBooks to the latest format.
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Most Influential In Mac Community Recognize any names? MacTech Magazine has announced the 2007 MacTech 25: The Mac technical community's most influential people. I'll bet you know a few of these
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Beach Blankets and Business You'd love to spend a week lounging on the beach with your family. Problem is, you're an entrepreneur with no time for such frivolities. Right? Wrong! Ty Freyvogel says you can balance your work and your personal lives this summer--and here's how.
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Drop the PowerPoint Crutch Presenters from salespeople to CEOs have embraced PowerPoint, but they're using it incorrectly and undermining their own messages. Paul LeRoux, author of Visual Selling, offers six tips for regaining control and delivering presentations that truly persuade.
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Capturing the Clicks After over a decade, we've gotten pretty Internet savvy. But one concept that still eludes many professionals is effective online advertising. A new book by experts at The Advertising Research Foundation teaches you how to chase the clicks that really pay off.
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