As a telecommuting, I know that head office IT support tried hard, but doesn't always offer good solutions. I knew when I was working for big pharma that if I really scowed something I'd lose at least a week of work (two days to get the laptop to Toronto, at least a day to fix,…

I tried WebPosition Gold about a year ago when I thought I would do SEO/SEM. I had a funny feeling that something didn't seem right about it. Sure the tool was easy and I could quickly give a potential client a view of how they were doing, but something kinda bugged me about it. This…

I've been following this series and I highly recommend it to anyone who is considering setting up a home wireless network, has a home wireless network, or is a frequent user of public hotspots. This article is a conclusion (I think), but the previous articles are great intros into the ins and outs of both…

Although Microsoft released then pulled v6.2 of MSN Messenger (expected early this week) Yahoo is jumping on the update bandwagon. Personally I see the race to add more and more features into IM clients a kind of cold war arms race where each vendor (Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL) are trying to reach a point with…

There is a new update available for this promising new collaboration and IM tool. The folks at Shinkuro have added a very interesting feature, the ability to share buddy/friend lists. Based off the principle of social networking you can request to see a friend's contacts, then add them to your set of friends. I can…