Helen Bradley

Windows 8 ships without a built-in photo editing application, and its Photos app is rudimentary to say the least. If you want to manage and edit your images in Windows 8, you need to find and download software to help out. We’ll show you how to organize and edit your images in Windows 8. Get […]

Helen Bradley is a respected international journalist writing regularly for small business and computer publications in the USA, Canada, South Africa, UK and Australia. You can learn more about her at her Web site, HelenBradley.com Do you have a comment or question about this article or other small business topics in general? Speak out in […]

When you need to collaborate with other people on documents or worksheets or to make presentations online, you can work on and store those documents in SkyDrive, Microsoft’s online file storage service. Even better, in both Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 make it easy for you to link directly to SkyDrive In this article, I’ll […]

Thanks to tablets and laptops, many small business owners and employees have escaped the office confines to work in just about every venue imaginable: coffee shops, in hotel rooms, at the airport and even in front of the TV. Of course if you’re not at your desktop computer, you need access to both your files […]

This time of the year is when your thoughts turn to gifts for customers and suppliers. If you’re a photographer or have access to great photos of your business, what better way to advertise it than using them in your gifts? You’ll find a legion of websites that let you turn photos into desk calendars […]

At first glance it may seem as if Office 2013 doesn’t offer much that’s new in this stalwart, small business software suite, but there are changes and most of them are good. These changes will make the Office applications easier to use for both beginner and experienced Office users alike. In this article I’ll go […]

Not all of the goodness PowerPoint offers comes in the original box. You can choose from a plethora of free and low-cost add-ins and tools that make PowerPoint even more useful. These software tools can help you, for example, make presentations that combine your PowerPoint slides with videos, still images and audio in a paneled […]

Small businesses can easily add a professional look to Word documents by placing information, such as page numbers, author and title, in the document’s header or footer. It’s a real time saver, too. Once you set up a header or footer, the content appears on every page of your document automatically. Plus, Word updates the […]

Video is a great way for any business, online or bricks-and-mortar, to get its message to both potential and current customers. However, like any Web content, you need to make sure that your small business videos get picked up by the search engines so that people who are searching for a business like yours can […]

When Google Plus first came out, did you think that the last thing you need is another social network to manage? We get it. However there are so many compelling reasons to use Google Plus, that learning how to use it quickly and easily is paramount. Don’t believe it? Give Is Google Plus a Plus […]

Last month in the article The Small Business Video Marketing Advantage, we looked at the value that videos can add to your small business marketing. In this column, we’ll show you an efficient video production process to ensure that you get the results you want — and not the digital equivalent of film piled on […]

Just when you’ve got a handle on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn along comes Google Plus as yet another social media tool demanding your attention. If you think you don’t need yet another social media platform you may be right, but there are plenty of reasons to give Google Plus a look. Google Plus has a […]