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Choosing the best productivity tool for your business can be overwhelming. Both G Suite and Office 365 let you create documents, spreadsheets and presentations as well as collaborate on them with other members of your team. You can also video conference and get your cloud storage through either.
Are you looking for easy, affordable, and streamlined ordering for all of your business products? That’s the tagline online retail giant Amazon.com uses for its Amazon Business service. It offers businesses of all sizes a simple solution to streamline your buying process. Does it live up to the hype? Our experts investigate.
Microsoft’s Powerpoint slide show presentation software has changed quite a bit over the years. Is it still the go-to choice for presentations?
Regardless of where you live, modern science has not yet found a way to keep the air dust free. That means with time, dust will accumulate inside your computer. The question is – will this dust affect its performance over the long run, and if so, how do you clean your computer? It’s easier than you might think.
You went to your computer and moved the cursor around. Nothing happened. Panic has set in. All your pictures, documents and files are on that computer. Your family pictures from the past 10 years, vacation pictures from last summer, tax files, grad school papers and more are saved to that computer. And now, it’s all lost. If you had purchased an external hard drive and backed up your computer you would still have all of those files. But you didn’t, so now they’re all gone. Hopefully you’ve never found yourself in this situation but, just in case, we’ve done a megaton of research to make our recommendations for the best in various categories so you can pick which will work most effectively for you. Because, now you know just how important it is to backup your data.
Don’t let a bad printer jam you up from making project deadlines or finishing team assignments. You can get a lot of functionality and many features for a relatively low price tag. But with thousands of printers on the market, how do you even begin to choose the best one for your small business?
The basic idea here is to encode your email address so it will not be easily harvested by robots crawling the Internet in search of email addresses. These robots are based on a script that searches for the “mailto:[email protected]” string (this example will probably be harvested, but it won’t do them any good since the email address is not valid).
You might think you can simply transfer the folder files via FTP. While in some instances this is possible, in most the file formatting prevents this method from being successful. Here is an approach that should work in most versions of Horde (webmail). Note that if your folders contain a large amount of email you will probably need to divide them into smaller folders.
If you’ve tried setting up your mail client and are struggling getting it to send your emails, you’re most likely dealing with what’s called an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), or outgoing mail server. The mail client will ask you for your “smtp server” but we continually get messages from readers that they’re left scratching their heads as to what that is. We are continually updating the list of outgoing mail servers below based on user requests. The table includes outgoing mail servers from around the globe. We’ll also show you how you can skip the need for an outgoing server altogether, which is especially useful if you’re on the road.
Microsoft Outlook is the email and calendar/scheduling component of Microsoft 365 – the comprehensive all-in-one cloud suite of Microsoft solutions that includes all of the companies’ stalwart offerings that have matured over the past few decades, from Word and Excel to Powerpoint and Outlook. And the good news is, unlike in the past when you had to purchase each software individually, and then purchase again when they got updated, MS 365 is subscription based so you always have the latest software available for a flat monthly fee. Prices start at $5/user/month. Here we bring you a quick tutorial on how to get up and running with Outlook 365, and then some frequently asked questions from our readers. Of course, you’re also welcome to hit us up in the comments with any other questions you might have!
Scenario – you just got a new external hard drive, with 2TB capacity, and it’s the size of a match box, so you’re feeling quite James Bondy. However, when you plug it into your laptop it doesn’t show the entire capacity. Why not? Our experts answer this question and more in our hard drive partitioning guide.
What’s potentially worse than getting lots of spam in our inbox? Possibly when email systems think you’re the spammer! And as a result, you are hearing from recipients that they are not receiving your emails. This can be a huge problem for small businesses that are sending out everything from invoices to requests for proposals via email. The good news is the solution is typically fairly straightforwards – our experts explain.
