The Co-operative Bank’s Focus on Ethics

Here is an interesting twist — a Bank whose marketing value proposition is “ethics.” The bank is called The Co-operative Bank.They have features including a card that offers 0% on purchases and balance transfers for six months. Another option is a card that earns money for your chosen organization as you make charges to your […]

Use Taskbin.com For Group Tasks Without Deadlines

This new Web 2.0 app shows promise. Taskbin is a collaboration tool that allows you to share and manage to-do lists among groups. You can flag tasks in order of urgency to prioritize and write notes for yourself or share them with group members.
Unlike other project management tools, TaskBin doesn’t force you to enter deadlines. […]

SilverStripe Open Source CMS Has Google Support

Want an open-source, free CMS? Low-end CMS’s like WordPress are proliferating; high-end CMS’s like Alfresco are also available. What about the middle?
Content Management Systems (CMS) aren’t the most sexiest applications in the world. When you think CMS, you probably think Vignette, Interwoven or a similar enterprise-level product. Those systems are usually bulky and difficult to […]

Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine

Google’s Algorithm now includes more than 200 components to its “secret sauce”:
Mr. Singhal has developed a far more elaborate system for ranking pages, which involves more than 200 types of information, or what Google calls “signals.” PageRank is but one signal. Some signals are on Web pages — like words, links, images and so on. […]

BlackBerry 8703e Tips

Recently got a Blackberry 8703e and it rocks! New to a Blackberry? Here’s one thing you’ll want to change. If your deleted messages don’t sync up with Exchange, do this:
In ‘messages’, select:
Messages Options > Email Reconciliation > Delete On > Change Option > Mailbox & Handheld

Here are some other shortcut keys you’ll want to know:
Phone

To […]

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

Google recently added new shortcuts to Gmail:
m - Mute
Archives the conversation, and all future messages skip the Inbox unless sent or cc’d directly to you. Learn more.
u - Return to conversation list
Refreshes your page and returns you to the inbox, or list of conversations.
y then o - Archive and next
Archive your conversation and move to […]

Pasta, Meatballs and Credit Card Theft

People are always asking me if it is safe to use your credit card on the Internet. Finally a stat that shows where the REAL security threat resides:
The most common place for credit card information to be stolen is at a restaurant, according to Visa.
The credit card company, which constantly monitors cardholder transactions and data […]

Agility to Adapt

Technology evolves quickly. Within six or nine months of a project delivery, the market may produce entirely new platforms radically altering your build-vs.-buy decisions. Delivering solutions in 30 to 90 day cycles enables regular reassessment of business assumptions.

Projects spanning nine months or more tend to be inflexible. Most project managers are not interested in reworking […]

IBackup for Online Storage

IBackup is an application that can perform interactive and scheduled backups of your critical files to an online backup account. I particularly like it in […]

ScrubIT

It’s about time. Want to protect your family against harmful web sites? Now comes this FREE tool to do just that — blocking unwanted sites at the DNS level. I recommend trying this service, and if possible, making this change at your home router level so that your children cannot hack this service.
ScrubIT is a […]