Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Guest post written by my buddy Aldo Mays Man, I hate having to deal with automated phone systems when I call a business. I just don’t understand for the life of me why anyone would call somewhere and just EXPECT to get on the phone with a robot – the Post Office is the worst [...]

With Steve Job’s passing and the release of a new biography about him, issues of technology law are all over the press and the internet these days. Most work at home folk will simply be reselling products and services from others who presumably have done their own legal due diligence.  This post is about those [...]

I’m very fortunate… for my birthday recently I received a tablet computer as a present from my family! At present, the most popular tablet computer is one by Apple, but sooner or later there’s going to come an “Apple Killer” in both the phone and tablet computer markets. Who are the likely competitors? At the [...]

Mashable has an article on How Small Businesses are using Mobile Interestingly, these small business people see mobile technology allowing them to work at home. This means, perhaps, that the lines between small business, work at home business, and remote working will continue to blur. If you’re like most of those questioned, smartphones and online [...]

Here’s how to transform a Nook Color into an Android Tablet for free. It’s here While the 7 inch screen Nook isn’t as fast as a more expensive tablet, many who have tried this trick (though not all) liked the results. Warning: Invalidates the warranty.

If your business is sitting at home in your pajamas writing HubPages (more power to you if it is), yesterday’s Skype outage was at worst an inconvenience. If, however, your business involves active contact with customers and colleagues over the Skype platform, you could have lost real money… Lost product sales Lost billable hours Unhappy customers Incomplete [...]

Everybody knows what “Black Friday” is… the Friday after Thanksgiving (in the US) where retailers can go “in the Black” (profit) for the year in just one day of massive selling. “Black Tuesday” is not always so profitable. It’s the 2nd Tuesday of each month when Windows automatically updates all their “fixes”… and, sad to [...]

Increasingly the key to working at home for many people is the availability of broadband access. Cisco has produced their 3rd annual report on the topic and the US is far from number one. In fact, we’re not even in the Top 10 (we’re #15). The results are based on a variety of factors: Quality was [...]

Announced at TechCrunch: PayPal has been hyping this feature for a while now: the user takes photos of the front and back of any check written out to them, and the money is automatically deposited. There’s no need to make a trip to a local branch of your bank. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/paypal-lets-you-cash-checks-with-your-phone-2010-9 This is similar to [...]

I don’t know about you, you I LOVE my iPhone… my wife love’s hers too. I guess that’s pretty common because they sell wildly as do their related products. I ran across this site the other day and had one of those “slap your head” moments – why didn’t I think of this? Why not [...]