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kID Sure: Keeping Your Kids’ Identities Safe

Did you know that by the time kids are old enough to use their identity, many of them have already had their identity stolen and used? How unfair is that? Your high school graduate tries to apply for a college loan, or to get their first car, and alr[Continue Reading]

Adobe Lightroom 3 – 50% Off This Week!

Because I know a lot of my readers are also photographers I’m going to share an extra special deal… Amazon.com’s software deal of the week is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. You can get it now for 50% off! That’s right, normally [Continue Reading]

Using FileZilla FTP to Access Your Site

As the hosting provider for many of my design clients, and many other site owners, I’m asked a lot about accessing a site’s files. While some hosts offer cpanel access, our Rackspace hosting does not, and the only way to view/edit files h[Continue Reading]

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup Review

I’m a huge advocate of backing up your data, whether it’s your WordPress database, your photos, or your clients files. I’ve used everything from external harddrives which I manage myself, to things link Jungle Disk, Carbonite, Dropb[Continue Reading]

I’m a huge fan of free software, and usually for screenshots I use something called ScreenHunter 5. But, since getting a new laptop with Windows 7, I’m finding myself using the included Snipping Tool a lot more! You’ll find the Snip[Continue Reading]

Whether you’re a full or part-time blogger, it makes sense to load up your smartphone with your favorite mobile blogging app; this way, you get to blog no matter where you are. The thing with writing is that it’s instinctive, and bloggers know th[Continue Reading]

For about five years I have been using Open Office instead of Microsoft Office, just because it was free and really did meet my needs as a small business owner. However, I’ve missed the ease of sharing documents with clients in a seamless way. [Continue Reading]

Cloud Computing for Bloggers

Guest Post by Kevin Tea Most bloggers by the very fact that they publish their blogs on the Internet have at least a rudimentary knowledge of computing and technology. For some this knowledge doesn’t get much further than the ability to write a[Continue Reading]

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