Category: Tools

IDrive for Mac is a secure and reliable application

A few weeks ago when my Windows crushed I was looking for an automated backup software for my files and folders. Today I discovered IDrive.

IDrive for Mac is a user-friendly, secure and reliable application that performs automated online backup of your files and folders. The application safeguards your critical data in case of a system crash. The graphical interface is coupled with powerful scheduling and logging features.

Keeping Track with Google Notebook

As you surf pages or work with Docs & Spreadsheets or other Google applications, you’ll inevitably want to take notes to record thoughts that occur to you. You can send quick notes to a coworker using Google Talk, or you can e-mail notes to someone else or to yourself using Gmail.

But Google Notebook is in fact the perfect note taking application for working with Google’s own business applications or simply for remembering Web sites, making notes about content, or recording thoughts you might comment on later in your blog. You probably already take notes while you’re online by typing in a Microsoft Word or other window.

A great scheduling and business management system

A great scheduling and business management system for Dance Studios, Health Clubs, Martial Arts, Personal Trainers, Pilates Studios, Retail, Salons, Spas, and Yoga Studios is MINDBODY. MINDBODY serves more than 2,900 clients in 42 countries, and it continues to grow.

MindBody

At MINDBODY, we embrace the principles of honesty, fair play, mutual respect and diversity. We seek “Win-Win” partnerships with clients, vendors, and business partners.

Remote access solution for Pcs

In the next few days I’ll be gone to see some of my friends. But my business is also important. I searched for a remote access solution to my PC and I come across remotepc.com.

Any web designer knows the importance of time. Why to buy another laptop when you can connect to your home PC even from an Internet coffee?

RemotePC is a program that enables me to access my home computer from a local computer. All I need is an Internet connection. The best feature is that I can check my emails, documents and everything else. Of course my home PC has to be powered on. :)

Remote Access

Things goes like this: the “viewer” application must be installed on the local computer, while the remote computer should be enabled with the ‘host’ application. I can also connect to your remote computer using a web browser.

My websites vs. search engines

Search Engines have evolved into a new consumer, communications and marketing channel. Google, Yahoo and MSN serve 213 million searches a day.

In fact, 9 out of 10 internet surfers use a Search Engine to start their internet journey. Therefore, if your website doesn’t have visibility in the engines, you are missing significant volumes of traffic.

Natural vs. Paid for Listings

There are essentially two listings within a Search Engine Results Page (SERP): the Natural listings (on the left) and the Paid for listing (on top and on the right).

Natural listings are the results the engine believes to be the most relevant sites to your search. The natural listings consistently receive over 70% of consumer clicks. Paid for listings are the ads served by Advertisers, who have bid on the term searched for by the consumer.

I don’t understand the active directory

As we start looking at Group Policy deployment to Active Directory objects, we can’t avoid a particular question: what, exactly, is an Active Directory? An excellent question. In the simplest of terms, Active Directory is just another piece of Microsoft software built upon the networking technologies that preceded it and is certainly nothing unique in that regard.

Active Directory

Microsoft, along with software companies everywhere big and small, has taken existing technologies and/or the ideas from existing software and made it theirs by taking what in their view is the next evolutionary step. In the case of Active Directory, Microsoft already had a working (if somewhat grumbled about) domain model built into their Server products. When Microsoft moved to the NT 4 operating system, they added the capability to link domains together with trust relationships.

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Search engine Optimization, or SEO as it’s commonly known as, is an online marketing strategy that involves designing, writing and coding your entire website with the intention of enabling search engines to index your site easily and efficiently.  The sole aim and objective is for it to rank higher for keywords relevant to your business. Optimizing a website is critical to gaining visibility on the organic or natural (left hand side) search results (SERP’s) of search engines.

Google Apps and their importance

In addition to AdSense, Google Apps, and other more ‘‘business oriented’’ products, Google offers a variety of other services that do everything from helping you to shop more efficiently online (Google Checkout), to letting you manage your photographs (Picasa). While many of the items presented in the following list may be more useful to you for recreational purposes, you might just find that they have applications in the workplace as well.

Google Application

All of the utilities listed in this appendix are free (with the exception of Google Checkout). Many of Google’s services are still in the beta or ‘‘rough draft’’ stage when they are released to the public. But that doesn’t mean they’re not already powerful tools. Remember that you can always contact Google and let them know if you’ve encountered a bug in the beta version of a software program. Go to http://www.goog le.com/intl/en/options/ for a full listing of Google’s other product offerings.

Search Engine Optimisation Case Study

Search Engine Optimization Case Study: my blog.

Problem

  • My blog launched in 2008
  • While the agency that built the site assured them it was SEO friendly, they were languishing on page 3 on Google for the most important keyword: ‘web design blog’

Things to check before calling your dedicated support professional

Usually, we think about troubleshooting problems after things have failed. A little planning in the beginning really helps. Most backup applications have the ability to create their own specific logs. You need to know how logging works within your application and be prepared to enable logging.

The people usually enable all logging during the initial installation so we have the appropriate logs if our initial attempts at backups and restores are not successful. After things are looking good, you should reduce or shut down logging. In some instances there can be a performance impact from logging, and in all instances the logs will consume disk space.