I’m old enough to remember when Microsoft was not the only player in the word-processing / spreadsheet / presentation market. I’ll admit that there are alternatives out there like OpenOffice.org but when you look at shear numbers, it’s Microsoft. The old time competition from Lotus and Borland and Harvard, is just a footnote in [...]

There has been a lot of news and internet traffic on the topic of traditional “office suite” software installed on your PC vs on-line web applications. Put another way - Microsoft Office vs Google Apps. How about having your cake and eating it too !
If you subscribe to the 80/20 rule where 80% of [...]

I decided this year I would finally send out holiday greeting cards. I used those photo print cards you can do at most department store and pharmacy chains. They came out “OK” - the color matching on most of these types of systems are marginal at best so the colors don’t always do the original [...]