Where do you get your inspiration when writing articles for your newsletter, your blog or for publication on websites? Here are a few of my favourite content creation strategies you can use when you run out of ideas. Have you ever read an article and though to yourself “my clients/blog readers would love to know…
Did You Know? Since 1998, Microsoft Windows has included the ability to create compressed ZIP files (under the name “Compressed Folders”), open and extract files from ZIP files too. Applications like WinZip are now only necessary if you need to do things like create self-extracting ZIP files or password protect them. Even in these cases, there…
Over the past few years, the issue of accessibility on the web has been heating up. Companies all around the world are being sued because their website is not accessible to everyone. In 2009, the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is the main international standards organization for the web, published the second version of…
Every once in a while, I receive warning messages from people who really mean well. These messages usually relate to viruses, or deception schemes. Sometimes the warnings may actually have been legitimate many years ago but no longer apply. The fact of the matter is that many of them are nothing but urban legends and…
Does Photoshop tend to turn the blue in your photos into purple? When viewing photos outside of Photoshop, they actually seem to have the right colours. The first time I opened a picture in Photoshop, I was disappointed. After all, I had spent a lot of money and one would expect the colours to come out…
Mastermind is a concept initially described by Napoleon Hill in his book “Think and Grow Rich” back in 1937. The idea is to bring together two or more people with a common mindset and create a Mastermind which is the whole group. If you like formulas, here is one that describes a Mastermind group: 1…