More than ever, small businesses are using technology to help them operate more efficiently and cost-effectively in an increasingly competitive environment.  One type of technology that business owners are taking advantage of at increasing rates is Mobile Applications.  As a matter of fact, according to a recent article in USA Today, apps are now considered… Read the full post

As a small business owner, you’ve probably heard about IT, but you may not really know what it is.  Most likely, you are already doing IT without realizing that you are doing it.   You might even know that you should have more of IT, but don’t know where to get it. What is IT you ask?  

If you are a “techie” yourself, you know all the best places to find other people with technical talent to help you with your projects.  But if you’re like most people, the language of the “Web Development and Software World” probably sounds like nonsense to you. When it comes to writing a classified ad, you… Read the full post

Review of the most popular tools and how you can benefit from them For sure you know what URL shortening is – especially if you use Twitter. And as you know, URLs may be shortened and yet still link directly to the required page. For example, the URL  /2012/09/size-matters-un-grow-your-url can be shortened to https://bit.ly/url, https://tinyurl.com/url or https://goo.gl/url. Looks in… Read the full post

Anyone who has had their ear to the ground of the mobile app world lately will have noticed a rather amazing new trend unfolding for everyday mobile device users: DIY mobile app building. The development is so profound in fact that the most fitting analogy is to reference the Web site building frenzy that occurred… Read the full post

Have you ever wondered how much information there is about your business on the web? Were you just curious or were you concerned? It’s great to have information on the web; it suits your marketing needs perfectly and it’s cheap. However, having more information on the web than your users need may compromise your security.… Read the full post

The popular photo-sharing application, Instagram, came on the scene just two years ago and has managed to create quite a stir in the social network photo-sharing world. So popular was this Android app becoming, that it apparently ruffled more than the feathers of the social network photo-sharing giant Facebook. Facebook has gone as far as… Read the full post

If you would like to monitor a number or string from some arbitrary web page anywhere in the world, Dan Fruehauf’s article, HTTP Extraction With Paid Monitor, shows you how.Dan’s article not only explains how, but also contains sample code to show how.  The sample code is written in M3 (the Paid Monitor Monitor Manager) and uses… Read the full post