Ooma – My Experience

I Got an Ooma Like many people, I am trying to lower the cost of my cable and Internet service. Since I moved, I decided this was the time. I needed a replacement for my phone (cell won’t do for business calls) and so I went with Ooma. Installation I had trouble with installation. Not […]

Dictamus – New iPad Dictation App

Dictamus – iPad App Allows You to Send Your Dictation Out Automatically   I wish I had known about the Dictamus (Dictate+ Connect) app prior to the seminar I taught this past week on iPad apps.  I would have been quite happy to share it. Currently, Dictamus is only available for iPad, but I am […]

Office 365 Tech Support Makes Me Want to Bang My Head on my Desk

I Hate Office 365 Tech Support   Understand, I don’t use the word hate lightly. There is very little I hate. I don’t like calamari, for example. But I don’t hate it. So maybe I should say I dislike Office 365 tech support. But I really really dislike it. Why? Because it is useless. They […]

Update on Office 365

What is it Like to Have Office 365? I have been remiss. I promised to write a detailed post on Office 365, and I haven’t done so. Fortunately someone reminded me lately by asking. As I mentioned previously, I switched to Office 365 Small Business Premium in mid May. Previously, I used only cloud based […]

Cloud or Hard Drive Backups?

Which Should You Do? Cloud or Hard Drive Backups? Flying home from a conference yesterday, I had a man and his wife sitting next to me.  I was reading a book on  my iPad to pass the time.  When the wife went to the bathroom, the man started asking me questions about my iPad.  Not […]

Moved to Office 365 Small Business Premium

Office 365 – Everything in the Cloud I have been using Office 365 for my email since it was called BPOS, so for about 2 years now.  This month I decided to go from my $4 per month hosted email solution to the full Small Business Plan. The Business plan is $12.50 per month, or […]

Upload or Link an Image to Google Search

Use Your Own Image to Search Google One of the cool things about Google is that you can search not only for words, but for images.  Now Google has added another neat tool, upload or link to an image and Google will search for images that are similar or even the same. For example, recently […]

Guest Post: Let’s Look at Nooks!

Guest Post – By my Sister! My sister, Loren Smyth, is a stay-at-home mom.  Therefore, my sister is (a) busier than me, (b) has a more important job than I do and is (c) able to see technology from a different point of view than I. Therefore, I am very pleased to bring my sister’s […]