Typing is becoming a part of a person’s literacy indicator today. If you cannot touch-type, all of your computer-based tasks will be more difficult not to mention slower.
www.sense-lang.org is a very good free on-line typing tutor. It has a decent set of standalone typing tutorials. It also has a classroom learning mode [...]
Tara Brabazon offers a striking look at information obesity. An analogy she uses with great insight and accuracy to demonstrate the state of academic information intake. I think the same applies to business and even the public information consumption.
Source: Middlsex University Play (MDX Play): Tara Brabazon final – MDX [...]
Social Media Globetrotter has an excellent article on the now emerging concept of Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management). This is clearly becoming a new powerful paradigm for CRM by applying social networking concepts.
More at the Source The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM.
When sending a message to more than 3 people especially if they do not know each other, please put everyone in the BCC field instead of TO or CC. This way no one will see the other recipients’ emails.
Also if you receive a message that includes compelling well-crafted information asking you to [...]
Source: Gmail Blog
via Tip: 5 things you may not know you can do with attachments in Gmail.
According to the Financial Times:
“Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows [...]
This is a good article on using reCAPTCHA. It has a video introduction to reCAPTCHA for non technicals as well. Very good value.
via Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA.
What fingerprints does your browser leave behind as you surf the web?
Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their web browser. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story.
When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information [...]
An old friend of mine was contemplating hosting his own website and asked me about my recommendations in terms of technology. I asked about his requirements and use cases. his response was:“The start up will be educational and tutorials for anyone. Later it will grow to sell software programs, technologies and ideas“ If [...]
An Excellent web development site Webmonkey is full of tutorials for various web programming languages. See their PHP Tutorial for Beginners. When you’re ready, check out how to use PHP to talk to a database inWebMonkey’s PHP and MySQL tutorial. PHP’s online documentation and function reference is the best on the web. Each entry (like this [...]