Latest Enterprise How-To
- 30 January 2013
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How-Tos: Set up Windows 8 as a home server
If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only really need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you should always back up everything on a regular basis.)
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How-Tos: How the Social Campus Enables Tomorrow's Workers Today
Collaboration is the key to getting anything done. Social technologies are all about enabling that collaboration. Combine social with mobile and sprinkle in technologies like VPNs and SSO, and the idea of 'social' moves to a whole new level, as two higher education CIOs attest.
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How-Tos: 6 CIOs Share Their Strategic Visions for 2013
If your IT organization doesn't have a clear core strategy, it's easy to get caught up in--and spend too much on--technology trends. Learn about six CIOs' strategies for 2013 and see how they compare to your plans for the rest of the year.
- 28 January 2013
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How-Tos: How to install Apache on Linux
An easy step-by-step guide to setting up an Apache Web server on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu
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How-Tos: How to watch BlackBerry 10 launch live
Join us for live coverage of RIM's BlackBerry 10 operating system launch on 30 January.
- 23 January 2013
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How-Tos: How to Avoid Online Reputation Management Nightmares
Don't let a few bad reviews or one negative article ruin your reputation with online customers. These three case studies feature companies that faced online reputation challenges, with a look at the results they achieved and the lessons they learned along the way.
- 17 January 2013
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How-Tos: Automatically send new Hassle-Free PC posts to your Pocket account
Want Hassle-Free PC in your inbox? Of course you do! One option is to subscribe to PC World's Power Tips newsletter, which includes, among other things, this very column.
- 10 January 2013
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How-Tos: How to Get Started With Google Analytics
Analytics help you find out what brings visitors to your small business website. With that information, you can better design your site to give visitors what they are looking for--and turn them into customers. Here's a primer on linking your site to Google Analytics and getting the most out of the data it gives you.
- 05 January 2013
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How-Tos: How to edit PDFs in Word 2013
Word 2013 brings a fair number of new features to the word-processing table, but one of the most welcome (and business-friendly) by far is the capability to edit PDFs.
- 02 January 2013
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How-Tos: Power through schedules with 21 Google Calendar tricks
Maybe you charge through your plans with Patton-like precision, planning everything down to the minute. Or, like Marilyn Monroe, perhaps you've "been on a calendar, but never on time." It really doesn't matter which approach you take--Google Calendar can fit your style.
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How-Tos: iTunes playlists, tags, and track durations
In the last Ask the iTunes Guy column of the year, I look at playlist views, a quick way to make playlists from folders of songs, adding tags to your tracks, and how to see the duration of selected tracks in iTunes 11.
- 24 December 2012
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How-Tos: iTunes 11: Miniplayer and Up Next tips
Two more tips about iTunes 11 from the readers of Mac OS X Hints:
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How-Tos: Give the gift of tech support
As I clack out these words, Christmas is just a day away, and many of you are (or soon will be) nestled comfortably in the embracing bosom of your family and friends. May I suggest that rather than tossing another pair of wooly socks or reindeer-themed undergarments at these folks you instead share some of the technology skills you've acquired over the years?
- 06 December 2012
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How-Tos: Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight
In-memory analytics, like virtualization and the cloud, is an old idea that's been given new life. In this case, the combination of big data, inexpensive commodity storage and parallel processing make it possible to analyze terabytes of data without slowing systems to a crawl.
- 05 December 2012
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How-Tos: Coworking Offers Employees More Than Office Space
Coworking promises to improve productivity while improving work-life balance. Whether you're an enterprise with remote employees who want a professional work environment or a start-up firm too small for your own office, you can benefit from coworking.
- 30 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to Set Up a Pinterest Business Page
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter and Google+, social bookmarking site Pinterest has unveiled pages exclusively for businesses.
- 29 November 2012
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How-Tos: Back up Gmail to a local drive
Charles Johnson has a "nagging worry" about all those important messages stored in Gmail. He asked if there's a way to back them up locally to his hard drive.
- 28 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to tame messy Gmail replies
Much as I love Gmail, I don't love how messy it can be. Messy interface, messy layout, and, sometimes, messy emails.
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How-Tos: How to Set Up a Pinterest Business Page
You have no doubt watched the rise of Pinterest, the latest social media phenom. But have you switched to the new Pinterest Business Pages? Here's how to do it, plus details on its other exclusive features.
- 21 November 2012
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How-Tos: One Mac, two versions of OS X
Reader Will Dawes would like to have a foot in two worlds. He writes:
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