Use Free Office Productivity Software

Money Saving Technology Tip 16 Use Free Office Productivity Software “Instead of costly productivity tool applications from Microsoft, use equivalent free tools.  Google offers free versions of email, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet applications.  Sun offers a suite of free productivity tools called the OpenOffice Suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application.  Mozilla [...]

Bragging Rights. Who Has Yours?

About a year before Clay Shirky’s recent blog post in which he explores how women are less willing to take risks in self-promotion than men, I had an “Aha Moment.” Resentful. Angry. Frustrated. “I know so much more than he does, and yet he’s on stage teaching people about shiny tools he doesn’t use or [...]

Keep Your Old Computers an Extra Generation

Money Saving Technology Tip 15 Keep Your Old Computers an Extra Generation “You do not NEED ‘State of the Art info-tech’. Use one-generation old computers and software. They are much less expensive; the bugs have been worked out; most of the important stuff runs just fine on it; they are still good for 3 years+/-, by [...]