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Your biggest advantage as a small business person is your ability to adapt quickly. A limiting factor you have is that you are one person and you can do only so much. In this blog I try to focus on practical tech, not the shiny gadget of the day. I have always believed that tech serves us best by providing more for less. In business productivity of a few …

A new App called EasilyDo is now available for Android that proactively notifies you of the things you have to do. Small Business owners are big multi-taskers and we know they appreciate well-timed gentle reminders. This helps you to keep up with all the activities you need to do during the day and can help your customer service and reduce your personal stress. It has been available on iTunes for …

Can you take advantage of cloud computing? It’s a buzz word and it only makes sense for businesses with particular needs. Cloud computing spans a large number of features and applications. It can range from using a cloud drive to archiving and securely share common files to hosting a website and more.

Almost every business can take advantage of a cloud drive. This relieves you the burden and worry of backing up …

Since you run a small business you may work at home a lot. If you spend time in a chair it’s worthwhile to get a good one. But how do you pick one? I’m 6’1″ and my wife is 5″6″, when I bought a chair for my desk it worked well enough for me. Then I moved to other areas of the house and my wife started spending a lot …

For you iOS fans Checkmark the location-based reminder app is free today normally $4.99 – iOS apps are way too expensive. For you folks that live in the iOS universe, I have empathy for the extra money you put out for the simple things in your tech life.

That said, I have often gone on an errand to return with a head slapping, “I forgot to … while I was there”, and this is …

You may fly for business and that’s rarely fun. When you do these are the rights you have and it’s worth knowing to help you manage your expectations and get you your due. These types of rules change periodically so it’s worth scanning and having them in mind. I find when I know what to expect I’m more patient but if I expect an outmoded notion of reasonable customer service and …

Lifehacker is reporting that Google Voice is not working properly when making calls from computers. I use Google Voice for my business ‘land lines’ and for keeping my meager minutes well below the limit. This is a cautionary tale for business providing a lesson that you should never be a cutting edge user on anything that is critical to your business.

If you want to play with something by all means. Just …

Lifehacker put out a call to nominate the top 5 android phones. My personal nomination for #1 is the phone I use, LG Nexus 4. Its camera is probably the worst of the bunch but it’s acceptable for what I need. The reasons I use it:

Off contract price of $300 – half of any of the others or less
Upgrades with Google’s latest OS faster than any on the market and …

Hotels, expensive and necessary to do some of your business. I have no problem with staying in 2 star hotels. I just need a clean room and a relatively quiet place to get the rest I need. The problem is that if there is any chance your client or the people you visit know where you’re staying then you have to go upscale.

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