Lorelle, over at Lorelle on Wordpress, is doing a bangup job so far in her Month of Wordpress Plugins. I've been happy to see some of my favorite plugins featured already. I'm even finding some new types of plugins that I'm wondering how I've made it without them. This ...

I just want to say welcome to everyone coming from SlackerManager. I actually have to give him a bit of credit for this being started. It's very common for him to come into my office with some new idea for a fun project or money-making idea. He's very entrepreneurial ...

Google Tutor gave some valuable information out about creating better links in relation to the Google search engine. The gist of it is that when you make a link with text like "click here" the search engines are not indexing the link effectively. No matter how intelligent Google may seem ...

I don't remember how I first found out about Yugma, but this is a great piece of software for online meetings. Similar to Basecamp, you can have a limited FREE account, or varying levels of pay-for accounts. All accounts come with desktop sharing, audio teleconferencing, annotations & whiteboarding, ...

One thing I've found annoying about the way Windows handles the display of open applications is the inflexibility in the Taskbar. With XP they gave the ability to group Taskbar items from the same application together, but still no way for me to organize the lineup how I really ...

For a long time -- so long I can't remember when I started -- My Yahoo! has been my homepage. Back when Yahoo! was king they were the (possibly) the first to do a customizable portal page. Since I started using it the content I have on the ...

This is old news by some measure, but it is a timeless piece of trickery with Excel. Make a calendar in Excel: =IF(MONTH(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1)) <>MONTH(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1)- (WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1))-1)+ {0;1;2;3;4;5}*7+{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}-1),"",DATE(YEAR(NOW()), MONTH(NOW()),1)-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(NOW()), MONTH(NOW()),1))-1)+{0;1;2;3;4;5}*7+{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}-1) To use it: Copy the formula text to the clipboard Activate an Excel sheet and select a 7-col by 6-row range Press F2 Press Ctrl+V to paste the formula into the active cell Press ...

There are tons of reviews of Basecamp already out there, so I won't beleaguer the points those reviews go over -- at least I'll try not to. I did a presentation at a semi-annual board meeting for an organization I'm a part of this weekend about Basecamp, and how we will ...

Are you a master at SQL? Or are you just getting familiar with the language? Regardless of what database system you use, nothing is better than a set of quality GUI based applications to help you work. MySQL has released a set of GUI tools that looks very complete. ...

Email addresses have brought something new to the world of communication; wherever you go in the world (as long as you have internet access) people can reach you in the same manner and location as they always do. This goes both for travel and moving. That's the general ...