by Kris Traughber In today’s world, you use databases almost every day and you may not even know it. When you login to Netflix to look for a movie to add to your queue, you are using a database. When you go to the Zappos website to buy that awesome new pair of shoes that you really don’t need, you …
Dropbox: How to Simplify Your Computing Life
by Kris Traughber Imagine this. You’re on a business trip. You’ve got your laptop with you but you forgot some important files at home on your desktop computer. Then, to top it off, you can’t login to your sales application because you’re getting some weird error message. So you call your corporate help desk (or your personal tech guy) and …
How to navigate and highlight text with your keyboard
by Kris Traughber When it comes to anything besides simple typing, most people depend on their mouse to do just about everything on their computer. However, you can speed up your productivity while typing with a few keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts allow you to move between and highlight words and letters without taking your hands off the keyboard. This is …
Email Etiquette
Email etiquette is something overlooked quite often. I know because I correspond through email regularly and more often than I care to admit. Because of the nature of the medium, it can often be hard to discern the temperament, intent, and tone of a conversation. While good email etiquette cannot guarantee misunderstandings won’t happen, it can go a long way …
Using the TO:, CC:, and BCC: fields in Emails
This article originally started as one of the points in the email etiquette article I wrote. But I quickly realized this one point has a number of issues to address on its own. For that reason, I decided to give it it’s own deserved article. First, to clear up the conversation, it is necesasry to define what each of the …