This is a Mac office and in it, I often open Word files from clients who are PC users. No problem. Between a handy little utility file called icWord and keeping a version of Microsoft Office for Mac on my secondary computer, I rarely encounter issues. Till today. A client sent me a zipped file [...]

I love Goog 411. And I’ve lately been feeling like I “get” social networking, even though I struggle to incorporate it into daily life. I mean, if it’s a time crunch requiring a choice between exercising and Twittering or LinkedIn, I have to choose exercise. Now, just as I think I have a handle on [...]

Are you an experienced forum group moderator? I would love for you to mentor me on how you approach this task! I recently jumped into the role of moderator on two groups I belong to. Simply keeping up with all the discussion on the forums takes an amazing amount of time. Having observed some talented [...]

To connect with all your clients, you need reliable phone and internet service. Yes these are called “Technology,” but they are also services you have to pay for evey month, like gas and electricity, so I have grouped discussion of them together as your “utilities.” Let’s take phones first. You may use a landline, your [...]

My bags are packed, the plants are watered, cat litter box “refreshed,” and … I started wondering where to eat once I get to MacWorld. Checking out some random posts about MW on MacRumors.com, I found this: MacWorldEats, which you can download, install in the Notes folder on your iPod (which of course you would [...]

Yes, this old gal is heading to MacWorld for the first time, and am I ever ready to take it all in! Pal Karin (aka the Wild Woman of Wild Woman Design) and I are meeting up in San Francisco to see what’s new and for a thorough meander of the exhibits. Karin has a [...]

As one who builds and manages websites for clients, I am at home with many web technologies. These I respect for their role in enhancing communication. Beyond the internet, where I work, there are simply so many other applications of existing technologies I barely understand. Yesterday I read about an example of one of these [...]

Ok, I’m not that far from home, but am writing this in Mexico (Puerto Peñaco, Sonora). While being a virtual worker and working while mobile and away from the office is something I’ve mentioned before, this is different, for me at least. Puerto Peñasco is experiencing tremendous growth and the number of WIFI spots has [...]

I find I am concerned enough to write about a number of environmental issues (making home/office greener, harvesting rainwater, and finding safe disposal options for fluorescent lightbulbs, for example), but perhaps NOT concerned enough to actually do more than blog about them, run occasional technology recycling contests, and write letters to my elected officials about [...]

I’m slotted as a guest speaker for class of college of students enrolled in a web design course today, and in preparation I found myself listing all the ways the process has changed since I built my first site back in 1994. With all the options in Content Management, using WordPress AS your website, and [...]