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Considering Netbooks for Your Business?

Date: 20 Jul 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

  Market research organization Techaisle recently released a study forecasting that SMBs worldwide will purchase 1.1 million Netbooks in 2009, jumping to 3.5 million units in 2010. Between 22 and 30 percent of SMBs said that they are considering Netbook purchases as they upgrading core desktops and notebooks. Designed primarily for wireless communication and access to the Internet, Netbooks

Are you regularly defragmenting your disks?

Date: 20 Jul 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

When most people want to purchase a new computer or upgrade their current one, they focus on finding a CPU with the quickest speed, the most computing cores, or the most RAM they can afford. However, they may be overlooking the most likely reason for computing slowdowns: fragmentation in the disks. Disk drives claim the dubious distinction of being the slowest component on today’s computers, an

Why a PDF is Best for Sharing Files

Date: 23 Jun 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

PDF stands for Portable Document Format, a file format that originated in print publishing as a tool for proofing print jobs before sending them to the printer. Today, it has become the standard for sharing print-ready documents via the Internet. The format was developed by Adobe and was originally available only to owners of the company’s Acrobat software. During the mid-90s, Adobe began distr

Getting Started with CRM

Date: 19 Jun 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

In today’s tough economic environment, converting your most promising prospects into customers and your current customers into loyal patrons is more important than ever. Whether your business is big or small, you need your marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to work together in sync-and this can only truly be done with a Customer Relationship Management program and system in place. Wh

Protect Yourself from Adware and Malware

Date: 13 Jun 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

While the internet is a vast resource for all sorts of information, data, and other useful thingamajigs, there are aspects of it that aren’t so desirable. Viruses, for instance. They wreak havoc in your system, destroying files, crashing the operating system – generally making life much more difficult. But if you thought that viruses were the only nasty thing out there that you need protection

Free Online Solutions Make Your Life Easier

Date: 13 Jun 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

Do you frequently struggle with creating PDF documents, sending large files through email, and converting various file types from one to another? If so, you may have found that some mainstream solutions are complicated and time consuming. But there are some online solutions that can help you with these common tasks without requiring you to learn complicated applications and workflows, or even inst

Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support for Windows XP

Date: 08 Jun 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

  Last April 14, Microsoft officially announced the end of mainstream support for Windows XP, seven years after XP originally shipped. Non-security patches, fixes, and updates are no longer available free from Microsoft, and phone support for security and non-security related issues and change requests are no longer provided. Any future bugs found in the platform will not be fixed without a

Boosting productivity by ‘not working’

Date: 01 Jun 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

Apparently, the well known adage “All work and no play make Johnny a dull boy” isn’t just some excuse to be laid back and take a break from the drudgery of work (hah, drudgery), but is really a fact based on science. At least as far as the fellows from the University of Melbourne in Australia are concerned. A recent study conducted by the University’s Department of Management and Marketin

4 Benefits of VoIP for Your Small Business

Date: 31 May 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), technology that lets you make and receive phone calls over the Internet, may have started out as a novelty, but it’s quickly becoming mainstream – and many small businesses are finding that it can save them a lot of cash. Benefits Features. VoIP has the same features as conventional phone service: multiple lines, conference calling, and voice mail, to na

Why two screens are better than one?

Date: 31 May 2009 | Posted BY: ulisticadmin

3 Reasons 2 Screens are Better than 1 Increasing your employees’ online workspace by expanding it across two or more monitors can significantly improve productivity with minimal cost investment. In the past, multiple monitors have been the domain of programmers. Visit Google headquarters, for example, and you’ll see awe-inspiring configurations of screens: two, four, even six monitors, stacke