Remember when I used to be so good about the Byte of the *Week*? Well, to make up for the days I’ve been late, I thought I’d send one early: Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com It’s a new search engine that focuses on computation power. So I typed in “to be or not to be” and the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Business Tools
Résumé Templates and more
A friend asked me yesterday about résumé templates online. After 10 minutes of searching I remembered by old friend Microsoft templates: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx They have templates for just about anything – graduation invitations, expense reports, résumé and more. Just do a search on the template you need. Click on the name of the template in the … Continue reading
Free Online PDF Converter
Just a super quick byte this week. http://premium.pdfonline.com/BCLOnline/PrintOut.aspx – this is my new favorite site for converting Microsoft items into PDF. So far I’ve only tested Word Docs. You upload and they convert, you download and save. Have a great weekend! Continue reading
Domain name for blog and email
I wrote a blog recently on how to build a cheap web site – really based on using a blog as your web site. I’ve looked further into this option and into using the domain name for your blog. You can do this one of two ways: First, you could register the domain name with … Continue reading
Budget Web Site
If I had a business and wanted a cheap and easy web site – this is what I’d do… I’d buy a domain name through Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). A domain name is about $9/year and Go Daddy offers lots of features. I’d start a blog on WordPress (www.wordpress.com). You don’t need to know html. You … Continue reading
State Newslines
A couple of years ago I talked about Google Alerts. (https://byteoftheweek.wordpress.com/2005/06/15/another-look-at-google/) In short, you tell Google to track certain terms and they send you an email when they add web sites that contain those terms to their database. I love it for tracking rural broadband issues. (I track that kind of thing: http://www.blandinonbroadband.com/.) I wished … Continue reading
Setting Up an Online Shop
I had an email this week from someone who was considering an online shop. They wondered if they could do it themselves. So I wrote up two routes to take. I thought some of the Byte readers might be interested too. Open a Yahoo Store You don’t have to know html. You set up your … Continue reading
Squidoo
Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com) is a web site that lets you build one-page web sites quickly and easily. The idea is that everyone is an expert on something – and Squidoo is the place to showcase that expertise. Squidoo will put ads on your page – but they will give you commission on the clicks on your … Continue reading
PDFs & Flash Paper
Last week someone asked me for a free tool to turn Word documents into PDFs. Here are the tools I suggested to her: pdf995: http://www.pdf995.com/ I used to use this all of the time. Each time you use it you get an ad, but I figured that was fair enough. You download this software and … Continue reading
Posting PPT Online
Last summer I looked high and low for an affordable tool to easily and attractively post PowerPoint slides online. Well, this week I finally found a tool I liked PointCast (www.poinecast.com). (Cost was $100.) I used it recently to upload a presentation on email newsletters: http://www.treacyinfo.com/EmailMarketing/start.html It was very easy to use. Once I downloaded … Continue reading
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