I signed up for Amazon Prime on a whim. A friend had mentioned it to me years ago but I never followed through on it until just recently. I order a fair amount from Amazon.com but have usually been able to wait the several days delivery that accompanies free shipping. I tried the “free” Amazon [...]

POP or Post Office Protocol is how most of us check and send our email. The problem with the POP standard occurs when we use more than one computer. You can easily set both computers to sync all of your incoming mail by setting the preferences to leave mail on the server for a certain [...]

Here’s one of my favorite tricks for getting software. I needed a copy of Adobe Acrobat. Problem is a new version runs $299. On a whim, I went over to ebay.com to see what was available. And we get – Here’s an older version of Adobe Acrobat Standard starting at $9.99 with shipping of $6.99. [...]

One of my attorney friends likes to often state, “The only money you’ll ever see is money up front.” When clients suggest that they pay his retainer in monthly installments, he responds, “You can make monthly payments to your credit card company. They have already got convenient monthly billing to your mailing address set up.” [...]

You would think this one would be obvious but I get so many questions from others where my immediate thought is to google their question to find an answer yet the person asking the question never considers that option. Here are some recent examples: 1 – What’s the current judgment interest rate in Ohio? 2 [...]

Heading Towards a Paperless Office with Paperport 11, Omnipage 15, and Xerox Documate 252 I revived a post from the past when I was first getting into the paperless office movement. You may want to check out my more recent post on the Scansnap scanner October 19, 2006 Ahh, it is the dream of almost [...]