Who among us enjoys standing in line at the DMV every year to renew vehicle license plates? All that time to get a sticker and registration, oh, and write a check—the most important part.
Speaking for my own state, Ohio, it is now so easy to renew plates online that I cannot imagine anyone with a [...]
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Free 411 – Directory Service via your Cell Phone
Business road warriors frequently place calls to numbers they do not have in their cell phone contacts. Verizon 411 (aka ‘directory service’) calls are very handy, but also very expensive. Waste money no more! Try 1-800-GOOG-411 to get the same results entirely for free.
It’s very simple. Create an entry for Google (or whatever you wish [...]
Firefox + Sxipper = say ‘goodbye’ to passwords
I mentioned in a previous post that RoboForm is a ‘must have’ product-especially if you check into and out of countless password protected web sites daily.
So when I stumbled upon the FREE look-alike ‘Sxipper’ recently I had to give it a try. The interface is not quite as flexible as RoboForm, but Sxipper definitely gets [...]
Reclaim your desk – mount the monitor
If you really want to maximize efficiency in the office environment, there are a few no-brainer steps you need to take. Besides a cordless keyboard and mouse, and double-monitors (the obvious choice being flat-screen monitors), the next improvement is to mount your monitors above the desk surface.
Most all newer flat-screen monitors come with industry-standard bracket [...]
Voicemail as emailed text – what a great solution
This is the next best thing to a memory! Each voicemail is transcribed and sent to your email account and your cell phone.
Not only does it take seconds to scan to the most important parts, it gives you a written archive for those things you would like to retain, act upon, forward to a colleague [...]
How to parse non-delimited text data using Excel macro
Continuing the Excel macro theme… many employees receive company data from mainframe systems–perhaps even a screen copy or web paste.
Often the data is not delimited or structured in any way, so it does not want to go into Excel columns. They must first spend significant time ’shaping the data’ into columns and rows prior to [...]
