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Posted by Brian McCullough I remember when wifi and laptops first proliferated in college classrooms. Right away I noticed: no one was paying attention. Oh, don’t get me wrong, there was plenty going on… plenty of IM discussions amongst the students in the audience. The same sort of problem has made its way to corporate […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough For those of you that are hip to RSS and RSS feeds (all the people that have subscribed to this feed are clearly hip) you should be aware that almost every major job board now allows you to sign up for job search RSS feeds. Input the criteria you’re looking for […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough The stupid popup you see above was annoying me all yesterday. Look, my desktop is messy… literally covered in icons. That’s the way I like it, that’s the way I work. Where does Windows get off nagging me to clean my room, so to speak? So, I did a little Googling, […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. Hopefully, you weren’t also affected by the FPL power outages. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Richard Rinyai of TheProfessionalAssistant.net. Do you have confidential documents that you need to send to your network printer? Do you not want to run back and forth between your desk and the printer to make sure that no one can see what you […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Another personal post here. I’m giving a bit of thought to making that metaphysical/religious conversion over to a Mac for one of my main computers. My problem is this: I exist in a business that is absolutely tied 100% to the Microsoft Office world. So my question, dear readers, is as […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Did you know that this week is officially “Just Say No To PowerPoint” week? I didn’t know either, but there are plenty of references to it on the internet. I couldn’t find who, exactly, is behind this movement, but I’m willing to lend my support. I’m not sure PowerPoint is any […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Also from WebWorkerDaily today: If you exist in a work environment where you have to manage multiple shipments every day (if you know the FedEx and UPS AND DHL delivery guys by name) then I’ve got a website that will completely rock your world. TrackMyShipments.com will do exactly that: track multiple […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Oh, I know, I know. You can set an “out of office” autoreply on your email. Everyone can do that! Sheesh. Everyone but you, right? C’mon, it’s just you and me talking here. Every time you encounter one of those “I’m away from my office…” emails, you’re a little jealous. It’s […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Chalk this up as another inevitability of our age. Ever since social networks have been around, they’ve sort of been like the music your parents wouldn’t like because the music was too loud. You could post pictures from your keg party because you knew no one of any authority or importance […]

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