Tag Archives: business software
Microsoft Launches An Anti-virus Program – Will You Trust It?
Microsoft has now launched their non-beta version of its Security Essentials software which is said to be very promising. It’s available to everyone – free of cost. Free anti-virus programs usually don’t have the best reputation when it comes to quality of their protection, but is Microsoft Security Essentials any different? Is it reliable?
Yolandi Janse [...]
What accounting package do you use?
When I started my digital marketing company, World Wide Creative, a few years back I was a stereotypical entrepreneur. By ‘stereotypical’ read ‘stupid in stereo’ … basically I did twice as much work as required, purely because I was instilled with the same dumbass, dogged determination that most SA business people are born with.
Besides doing [...]
The 5 Best Twitter Clients To Use
Do you only use Twitter at www.twitter.com? Here are 5 programs that can make it better. These 5 Twitter clients are based on Twitter’s analytics service Twitstat. Naturally, most users post from the Twitter website itself.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi [...]
How we use Dropbox to be more efficient at work
There are plenty of file-sharing and online backup programs on the net, but for us none have come close to being as useful to our business as Dropbox. Here’s how it works:
1) Go to the Get Dropbox website and download the small desktop app (free, and available for Windows, Mac and Linux)
2) During the installation [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Paul de Villiers from The Bluebox
It takes a fair amount of business bravado to launch a software product in the same playing field as SAP, Microsoft Great Plains and JD Edwards. Even more so if you’re based in the sleepy South African town of Pietermaritzburg. This morning we’re chatting to Paul de Villiers from The BlueBox, an ERP/Business Systems Software [...]
Work From Home: Create The Virtual Office
Over the past 8 months, my wife Yolande has been working on a business idea* and has set about creating a work space at home. We have 3 kids, so these things tend to take a little time. Setting up a home office is not as easy as you may imagine. A critical element, as [...]
Should you upgrade to Windows Vista?
If you run a small business you probably don’t have an IT department to make software decisions for you. As well as answering the phone, making the tea, balancing the books and making sales calls, you have to be an expert on everything relating to technology.
I’ve been toying with the idea of upgrading my laptop [...]
