Moving Advice from the Pros
More than 35 million Americans move every year and surprisingly, just 1/3 of those moves are local. While moving is a very common occurrence, it’s still considered a stressful and overwhelming experience for many individuals. When you consider that fact that moving requires you to pick up your whole life and start over in a...
Torturous Tech: How To Fix Your Broken Contact List
Mobile phone contact lists haven’t changed much since smart phones were introduced to the market. It’s a shame. The average person’s contact list today is clunky, antiquated, and completely broken. From duplicate entries to caller ID worse than what you’d find on a landline, contact lists have not changed while their smartphone hosts have completely...
Wise Words from Wise Women: Celebrating Moms in Finance
For many of us, there is no figure in our lives more important than mom. Mothers are full of love and wisdom and without them, we’d surely be ill-prepared for life. This Mother’s Day, we are celebrating mothers who’ve done things a bit differently. Though today, there are many more women in finance than ever...
Getting Started: Yoga Tips For the Beginner
Yoga students just starting out may be excited at the prospect of incorporating this new practice into their lives. They have their stretchy Lululemon pants, their eco-friendly yoga mat, and they’ve signed up for classes at the local studio. No matter how much they prepare, though, they may find themselves running into obstacles or confusion...
How to Know When Your Relationship Needs Professional Help
Every couple has their ups and downs – in fact – smooth sailing all day every day is virtually unheard of. When two people truly care about each other and communicate their thoughts and feelings, there are bound to be disagreements. Unfortunately, the divorce rate is still alarmingly high and some studies even put the...
40 Practical Financial Tips From The Experts
Sir John Templeton famously said: “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.’” There is a great deal of advice that exists on the Internet about managing wealth effectively, but some quotes, like this one, ring truer than others. It seems everyone these days has suggestions for how you should best...
Chatting, Tweeting, and Keeping Connected in a Virtual Workplace
The modern organization has changed, but the need to remain connected to your organization has only grown. Your employee handbook says you have an open door policy, but in an increasingly virtual workplace, employees are not seeking to enter a physical office. As such, most open door policies are more metaphorical. Employees want to reach...
Computer Terms Glossary: Advice for Computer Shoppers
I'm often asked to give an opinion on what computer a friend or family member should buy. With this post I'd like to give a brief explanation of the terms used to describe and sell computers. What do the numbers mean? Which numbers are important, and what do I need to know about...
Malwarebytes Review. We eat malware for breakfast.
My number one recommended malware tool? Well, it does change from time to time, but for a while now I've been a huge advocate of malwarebytes. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect.
Speed up your firefox, for real.
I test drove this, and it works well, I've had no problems with the operation of firefox since. So don't just take my word for it, configure firefox yourself.
Computer tip #4
Firefox is by far the most superior of all browsers on the web (opinion). If you are still surfing with Internet Explorer, or have got sucked into Google Chrome, or if you run a PC and decided to use Safari (because you wish you had a mac) you are using an inferior browser.
Computer Tip #2
So it looks like Tip #1 was really a two for one, so I’ll have to be careful to give only one piece of advice with this one. Gotta keep the people coming back right? Tip #2, ccleaner ccleaner is one my all-time favorite PC tools. It was originally called crap-cleaner but when it got...