Ask anyone who invests in tech stocks for a description of what they’re like and the answer you’ll most likely receive is that they’re volatile, meaning to vary often or widely. One of Yahoo’s oldest web sites, Yahoo! Finance (YHOO), is a good place to check on how tech stocks are doing. You can also perform quick stock searches by...

As you probably know, there are tons of free photo library and editing applications out there. That said, here is another one to take a look at: Photoscape. From what I can see, there is nothing really innovative about this application, however it offers a strong set of features, including:Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance,...

Are you constantly being bombarded by email messages which are interupting your work? Rather than going through the ‘drastic’ measure of closing your email client, try the Email Prioritizer plugin for Outlook 2007. This plugin temporary pauses email from being delivered so you can work uninterrupted for a period of time. To me, this is a better...

This tip may only apply to a few of our readers, but I thought I would pass this along because it is a great way to have either a SharePoint development platform or deploy a SharePoint environment in small/home installations. Typically, the way you roll out a SharePoint environment is via a Windows Server, as this is included with the product. While this is the...

If you have your own domain email account (i.e. me@mydomain.com, me@mycompany.com) and are continually getting pummeled with spam despite your best efforts, a service you really need to look at is Postini. Postini is a Google owned service which provides hosted spam protection for ridiculously low pricing (at the time of this writing $12 per email per year)....

They say the economy isn’t so good these days. Certainly, things have slowed down. Things are changing and people are adjusting. What may not have occurred to many, though, is that technology could very well weather it out better than any other economic sector. Geeks, if they make the right moves, can GROW during this period. How? I thought what I would do...

When it comes to instructing people on how to do something, I operate on a three-strike rule. If I have to tell anyone how to do anything more than three times in a row, I write documentation for that person. Writing documentation for others is not as easy as it appears. I have my own formula of sorts when writing instructional documents. It took me a while to...

“Old media” in the context of this article refers to print publications that have little to no connection to the online world (i.e. the internet) whatsoever. Many of you out there have got the camera bug, so to speak, and would appreciate some ways to make a few extra bucks from the photos you take. In this article we’ll discuss how to get...

Many of you out there have the means to write at length and feel you could write a book for profit. But sometimes the two toughest questions to answer are “What do I write about?” and “What do I write about that people would actually buy?” The answers to both these questions are easily answered. Once you have the answers you’ll find...

In this last video of our “3 Day Money” series, I talk about affiliate marketing. You can make a lot of money on the Internet selling products that other people created. In this video, I give you a primer on how to do it. [hidepost=1] [flv:http://3daymoney.s3.amazonaws.com/Day3_Affiliate.flv 576 360] [/hidepost] [hidepost=2] Click Here to Download a...