Every now and then we all have the need to send a fax. Whether it is for important [fill in the blank] forms with your signature or you simply need to send a ‘paper copy’ of something instantly, fax is still a standard for transferring documents. If you don’t have a fax machine and do not want to run out to your local Kinko’s, check out...

In the news recently, there was mention of a City in Montana requiring not only information on your social media accounts, but your user name and passwords as well. It goes without saying, this is huge concern to applicants’ privacy. On a related note, phishers and scammers are taking advantage of job applicants as well by setting up phony companies to...

Said honestly, when I first read this article, I thought it was a joke. I’m not kidding. I said to myself, "There is no way any organization would ask for your personal logins and passwords to the social media sites you use just to apply for a job." The article asks if the City of Bozeman, MT (which the linked article is about) has the right to...

This article is not about the things we buy online but rather the traditional stores we use to buy our electronic stuff. With electronics items, you can either go to a store that’s specifically deals in electronics, an office supply store, or a department store. In the United States, these are the choices we have (this is not a complete list but covers...

So you want to be a programmer. But you don’t want to spend tens of thousands of dollars in training. You want something you can learn that’s cheap, always in demand and can be learned easily. Sound like you? Then you want to be a Microsoft Access consultant. MS Access consultants are always needed for companies both large and small. And the best...

The junk I’m referring to in this article is physical junk, as in the stuff that lands in your postal mailbox and the telemarketing calls you receive. 1. Make your phone number unlisted. Easy solution but certainly not instant gratification. It may take as long as a year before the calls slow down. Telemarketing companies obviously have copies of the phone...

It’s most likely true you study the electronics products you intend to purchase before you buy them. You read web site reviews, watch a demonstration video of it if available, and maybe even print out a sheet with some notes before heading to the store. You expect, as you should, the employee you encounter who will sell you the item to know the product...

I personally base whether the PC market is saturated or not by asking a very simple question: Is the computer as common in the average home as a television set? That’s a tough one to answer. More on that later. Saturation point in reference to PC sales is the instance where PC manufacturers cannot sell computers because everybody has one. I would hazard to...

If you need (or like) to keep your receipts for either tax or reimbursement purposes, you have to be organized. For obvious reasons, having them available digitally is probably easiest since they don’t consume (physical) storage space and are readily available. Of course, scanning these in can be quite a task… or you can just use Shoeboxed. Shoeboxed...

Going "niche" market means to be specialized to one particular product. And if the product you sell has enough of a following, it sells itself just by brand alone. Selling a new PC is tough because you simply cannot compete with Dell. They will always be able to sell for less than you can. And if not Dell, some other big name PC maker will always have...