Best Webmaster Resources A solid web presence is mandatory for every business.Here are our favorite resources: Articles & Submission Services Website PageRank is influenced by quality inbound links. Posting articles on othe...

Favorite Tips and Tricks Screen Capture : To capture the contents of your entire screen, press the PrintScreen key To capture the contents of the current window, press ALT+PrintScreen You can then right click/paste the captu...

Screen Display Tweaks for Tired Eyes Shackled to computers, as many of us are, we endure hours when bright backlit images drill through our eyes. No wonder that, at days end when we unplug from the electro-trance and gaze dully at object...

Managing with Authority and Democracy People who manage the work of others can be rated along a continuum, one endpoint of which is "authoritarian", the other end is "democrat". Authoritarians, as you would expect, manage by telling other...

Beware the Chicken Little Consultant Unfortunately there can be conflicts of interest on the part of your expert which can be subtle yet extremely powerful.Ask yourself one question: Would your consultant benefit by prolonging your issue...

Forget to Remember Am I the only one, or does it seem harder and harder to remember things? Long ago I made a barely-conscious decision to purge useless information from my brain. This was probably to make room for newe...

How to Learn Laptop or Paper I asked my son Matt if he wanted to take a laptop into class for the purpose of taking notes.One might expect a high-tech college kid to jump at what might be construed as an offer of a new techno-toy...

The Demise of Letterhead In the good ol days (over 5 years ago), the first task of any new business was to print business cards and letterhead.Suddenly preprinted letterhead became not only a cost, but a work-flow impediment....

The Importance of File Names Unless you place your faith in internal search engine software or document databases to track your work, consider a relatively low-tech enhancement to your work methods. I promise it will pay big divi...

Language The Structure of Thought I have the unique experience of having been romantically involved with (or married to) three teachers of the deaf. Not all at the same time, mind you, like some sign language convention gone primal, b...

Self Serving Letters and Emails Much of business involves inducing people to do what we want them to do. Whether it is to sign a proposal, return a call, set up an appointment, provide information or pay a bill, we are constantly nu...

Wipe Away Half Assed Communications Sad to say, but many business communications I receive are simply crap.Verbal: Company representative answers questions by guessing and "shooting from the hip". Her misinformation is acted upon by oth...

Steps Toward Better Business Ultimately, no matter how high-tech your business tools, development and implementation of new initiatives will depend upon effective, productive communication between real live people.Why do some bus...

A Sense of European Community Relatively speaking, the United States is a civilization baby. Only 230 years old at this writing, the U.S. is still in knee-pants compared with European cities, for example, many of which date back a...

Finding Roadblocks In The Critical Path Most projects are composed of multiple steps, and often these steps are performed by more than one person. In the art/science of scheduling for project management, these steps are called activities.Wh...

Organizing Your Small Business A fundamental challenge of small business can be summarized as: too many tasks, too few people.Unlike large enterprises which can have whole teams devoted to limited tasks - think "Task force for the ...

Receiving And Giving A Memorable Experience You stand on the shore deciding whether or not to take the plunge.You are hot but the water at your feet seems forbiddingly cold. Going further your ankles are submerged. The cold still holds you back...

Test Your Mettle At Construction Research Lab The Construction Research Laboratory is an amazing, one-of-a-kind place located in a gritty, industrial area of Miami.Since 1975, companies like mine (Builders Architectural) have built and tested por...

Brain Overload The Threat Of Cranial Overblosis It could be the evil confluence of two graph lines. One line represents "room left in brain". The other represents "data input". Result: Overblosis of the cranial cavity, otherwise known as Brain Over...

Sister Of Cranial Overblosis I received a great response to the recent Brain Overload piece from none other than my sister, Reba Meshulam. She is uniquely qualified to comment because 1)apparently her brain is about to explode, a...

My Adventures With The GPL Being relatively ignorant in 1994 when I embarked upon software development, I did not grasp the significance of a comment was made to me by one of my coders.We were working on Poingo PDF Emailer, an ...

Son Of My Adventures With The GPL Dear Readers, Last episode ended as Poingo-man stood on the precipice of a very important choice: to give up the secret code and fall in with the forces of the Open Source (motto: "May the Source be w...

Observing The Protocols Many among us sail through our lives blissfully ignorant of the reason our web addresses start with the secret code "http//:" Increasingly we think it is superfluous because when we omit entering it i...

Tim BernersLee A Tribute It s hard to be impressed anymore. But when I learned of the phenomenal achievements of Tim Berners-Lee, I became not only impressed, but awestruck.Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World...

Unexpected Wisdom The Drunk on North Avenue. I grew up on North Avenue, a 4-lane street cutting East-West across the middle of Chicago. My folks owned a clothing store there and our family lived upstairs. It was 1961 a...

Changing The Hearts Of Terrorists It is becoming increasingly clear that the next major world conflict will arise from a clash between fundamentalist Islamists and those they deem to be infidels. Islamist thought content is so foreign...

Email Domination , Fatal Weaknesses And A Solution Consider the following: � In 2003, the annual flow of e-mails worldwide was 667,585 terabytes. (UC Berkeleys School of Management, How Much Information)Email volume in the United States is ...

How To Write An Article For The Web Most web-marketing experts tout the power of articles for their ability to create inbound links and enhanced website credibility. But what they don t tell you is... how the heck do you write an articl...

Think Like Google with AdSense A conversation with my son Matt confirmed my suspicion. The Google AdSense ads I recently installed on this website are actually giving me an insight into what the Google search engine spider cherry-p...

Email Central To Your Work The use of email in business has mushroomed so quickly and become so ubiquitous that it has become hard to remember working without it.Email has become the hands-down method of choice for business com...

Emails Say the Darndest Things The advent of email has created a new environment for human interaction which is simultaneously more and less personal, but much less private. Above all, it is unforgiving. Once you click the "send" b...

Jealousy And Territoriality There are times in every company when people "butt heads" with each other whether subtly or overtly. These conflicts, if persistent, can become detrimental to the business and should be addressed.If y...

How To Shmooze Definition: talk idly or casually in a friendly way Value: priceless. Gearheads like me have trouble understanding that great ideas and hard work aren enough... you gotta shmooze too. Every day we de...

Create FTP And HTTP Download Links For those of us who routinely move large files around the Internet like chess pieces, sending large files as email attachments can be a dead end game.It is not uncommon for large email attachments to ...

Create A Resource Website For Your Company As small business grows, it accumulates forms, lists, procedures and other resources which become the backbone of the companys functioning. Over time, these important documents become scattered and so...

Set Browser Home Page To Company Resource Site Every time you open your browser, it automatically opens to a particular web page. This is called the home page. You can change this page so that you see what you want to see when your browser opens.I...

How To Make And Submit A Google Sitemap Many web-marketers believe that creating and submitting a sitemap to Google is a fast-track way to having your site indexed.A sitemap is a specially formatted list which tells Google the names, locati...

Learn HTML Through Theft And Mutilation Anyone serious about having a website needs to know something about HTML, the computer code of websites.HTML is a simple language - although some native speakers would argue that so is Swahili - it is...

Templatize Your Website With SSI -Server Side Includes-Step by Step:- Most websites maintain the same headers, footers and margin navigations on each page. This is good design. The common look tells your visitor she is in a unified e...

Using FTP To Send Large Files It was inevitable that our work files would mushroom to sizes far beyond restrictions imposed by most email services. The reason can be summarized in one word: graphics.Whether you want to send photos...

Create Your Own Download Links One of the great features of working with the web is the ability to download a file by clicking on a link. As most earthlings know, a link is most frequently visible as blue underlined text displayed ...

Shortcuts And HotKeys Anyone who has been confronted with a screenful of overlapping windows can appreciate the need to execute the tasks from the keyboard rather than from the mouse. Keyboard Hotkey Shortcuts: Our vote fo...

The Wonders Of Windows Explorer I frequently notice that, despite the fact that almost everyone I know uses a computer regularly - many all day long - their skills vary widely. It seems that people become proficient in the handful o...

Work Like Lightning With Lightning Navigator Have you ever... Spent tedious minutes clicking through layers of folders to arrive at the file you are looking for? Had your screen so filled with windows that you couldn find the icon you need to l...

Odd Thoughts Our world can be filled with wonderment, if we only took the time to notice things around us. Unfortunately one mans wondrous can be another mans stupid. Here we go: SHMORGASBOARD Is there a food out...

Really Mad EAT IT Have you ever wanted to whip out the ol Ouzi and teach a few dick-wipes a well deserved lesson? I know I have. In business, as in the rest of life, sometimes folks do things which display such abysmal...

When Good People Go Bonkers We all go nuts sometimes. Even someone as sublimely well balanced as myself goes off the deep end once in a while.When this happens, the bizarre behavior of the suddenly wacko can bring damage to them...

Megapixels Of Doom There is a growing disconnect between the file sizes of pictures routinely snapped by most digital cameras, and the desire of many amateur photographers to share their pics as email attachments or onl...

Clipboard and Screen Capture Many lack a clear understanding of the clipboard function built into Windows(tm)operating systems.Basically,the clipboard is a temporary storage area where you can save and retrieve data.The most wel...

Trust and Business In our whiz-bang society a word like trust may seem as fuddy-duddy as grandma's doily. But look again. Trust is an expectation based upon a fundamental human need: safety.When I say I trust you, I am ...