Techie Tips

Video Review of Free Downloads at Simply Stated Business

May 20, 2013

Who doesn’t love Free Stuff? I know I love it. I am building the free downloads here at Simply Stated Business. And I started doing the same at my health care blog, Simply Stated Health Care. The short video below gives you a quick recap on what’s available at Simply Stated Business. By far, the [...]

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Is Your Hard Drive a Hoarder’s Paradise?

August 20, 2012

Isn’t it amazing how quickly your hard drive resembles the home of the worst hoarder? Photo downloads PDFs from all over the place Music files Computer manufacturers build larger and larger capacity – definitely a hoarder’s paradise. You probably clean up your email inbox periodically Do you ever think about your hard drive? While this [...]

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How to Add Social Media Share Buttons to PDFs

July 25, 2012

  A popular post and free download at this site is 5 Steps to add a RT Button to Your PDF. Although not a new concept, some of us have not taken the time to figure out how to add social media share buttons to our PDFs. When I went looking for instructions, this is what [...]

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SnagIt How-To for Capturing Drop Down Menu

July 23, 2012

I created this short video for SnagIt users who want to know how to capture an image of a drop down menu. I discovered this neat little trick while creating a tutorial. I figured if I didn’t know if before now, someone out there is in the same boat. Capturing Drop Down Menu on SnagIt [...]

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QR Codes: Fading Fad or Budding Brilliance?

June 18, 2012

  It’s amazing what goes on when you’re not paying attention. A 3-part series on QR Codes consistently grabs traffic How Do QR Codes Work and What Do You Need ranks the highest My ignorance of those bar-code thingies inspired the series. Apparently, I was not alone. I haven’t given the codes much thought since then. I [...]

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Peeking Inside the Techie Folder

May 30, 2012

  If you’re a techie by trade or just gifted, I envy you. For me, techie stuff is like math – I can do it, but I have to work at it. That’s why I always appreciate discovering a good set of instructions. The best ~ Provide step-by-step instructions Share screen shots Keep it simple (my [...]

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VisualThesaurus For the Word Geek In All of Us

April 25, 2012

Word geeks of the world – unite. There’s a toy for the those of us who love words Or those who do not share that view, but need wordsmithing help It’s found at VisualThesaurus.com. Created by Thinkmap, it’s an online thesaurus and dictionary that uses an interactive word map. It’s a paid subscription. $2.95 per month –or– [...]

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A Plugin By Any Other Name is Not the Same

November 9, 2011

You read about the latest, great plugin and rush to add it to your site. But, did you add the right one? Sounds simple, right? After all, you have the plugin name What you find is the name might as well be John Smith (or Cathy Miller) for all the like-named plugins. There are few [...]

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Cloud Computing: 3 Questions to Ask Before Taking Off

October 12, 2011

It’s interesting the detours you take when researching What I Want to Learn. One of the items on my list was learning more about the various note-taking software. I started with Evernote, a free cloud computing program. Cloud computing connects data we input on our end And stores it on another end – the “cloud” Basically, [...]

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Your Klout Score: Do You Care?

September 26, 2011

A few quick questions for you – Do you know what your Klout score is? Do you care what your Klout score is? Do you even know what Klout is? The first time I received a tweet that someone gave me a +K, I wondered — So, is that a good thing? I’ll let you [...]

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