Small Business Computing Staff

Smallbiztechnology: CRMxl: A $10 CRM Plugin For MS Excel SmallBizTechnology looks at an inexpensive download that turns Microsoft Office Excel into a rudimentary CRM application. For beginners only. “I’ve reviewed a lot of CRM services. Most all of them are hosted, online, and not software. The biggest competitor for these tools is one of two […]

PCWorld: Glide Online ‘Operating System’ Adds 30GB Free Storage The new version of Glide from TransMedia, an all-in-one online app, also adds support for the Safari Web browser. (It already supported other major browsers.) “TransMedia’s Web-based Glide operating system has reached version 4.0, and among the new features of the system is compatibility with Apple’s […]

Entrepreneur: How To Make Your Website Mobile-friendly Consultant Mikal E. Belicove provides a primer on how to optimize a website for mobile users. “Juniper Research estimates that the number of mobile web users will grow from 1.2 billion this year to more than 2.4 billion in 2014. While many of these users will be able […]

Small Business Trends: Easy Video For SMBs With Camtasia Studio Review Camtasia is a simple screen recorder tool for creating screencasts – videos that use only screens from websites or other applications and screen actions such as mouse movements, coupled with audio. “Video is hot. It is talked about by most small business marketing gurus […]

Wired: iPad App – Simplenote Note-taking App Gets Better Improvements such as the ability to tag notes with keywords, share them with others in various ways and keep track of different versions of the same note make Simplenote a very powerful, but still simple, application, Wired reviewer Charlie Sorrel says. “Simplenote, our favorite note-taking application […]

PC Magazine: Video Telephony – An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come? Despite the best efforts of phone companies and other technology vendors, video telephony has not caught on in any major way, but new improvements in digital online technology and increases in bandwidth will change all that. “For decades, technology companies have tried to […]

PCWorld: Let The Tablet Wars Begin: HP vs. iPad Among the reasons for choosing HP – it has two tablet operating systems (Windows 7, WebOS from Palm) that both may be superior in some ways to Apple’s iOS, and it’s already a supplier to many small businesses so may offer better discounts. “Those lamenting the […]

Wired: Review – Apparent Doxie Portable Sheet-Fed Scanner It’s small, very lightweight, easy to set up and cheap ($129), but the Apparent Doxie is slower than some of the competition and only scans one side of a page at a time, the reviewer notes. “Doxie was very easy to set up: You just need to […]

Wall Street Journal: Business Jumps On The iPad Bandwagon While many businesses said flat out they wouldn’t support the iPhone when it first came out, some of them rushed to adopt Apple’s tablet computer. The WSJ profiles iPad companies and explains what they see in the consumer devices. “When Apple Inc.’s first iPhone came out […]

PCWorld: The Fastest Mac Ever Upgrading to a 2.93GHz Core i7 processor and 256GB SSD (solid state – i.e. fast and shock resistent) hard drive added $800 to the $1999 base price, but the result smoked the competition. “Ladies and gentlemen, the fastest Mac we’ve ever seen is currently sitting in the Macworld Lab. It’s […]

Entrepreneur: To Sharepoint Or Not To Sharepoint It’s too difficult to learn and use, says the SharePoint hater. It’s an indispensable tool for keeping mobile consultants working closely together, says the lover. “Can’t live With It – Craig Asher, principal, Vital Financial, a small venture capital firm in Bethesda, Md. Craig Asher didn’t always look […]

PCmag@World (Small Business): New Features Especially For SMBs In Updated Campaigner The new features include integrated image editing, auto fill of addresses from contacts lists and an e-mail preview function. “Campaigner, an email marketing service provider, announced a set of new features within the Campaigner service to enhance email marketing for small businesses. These new […]