More Enterprise How-To
- 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:
- 15 November 2012
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How-Tos: Three-Minute Coach: Protect Your Online Reputation
A career coach provides tips on making the best impression in online settings, such as an 80-20 rule for mixing professional and personal tweets
- 14 November 2012
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How-Tos: Salesforce.com's Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together
As Salesforce.com's SaaS offerings become more sophisticated, configuration and deployment gets more complex. In response, enterprises are increasingly turning to partners for implementation help.
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How-Tos: Restore your data from the cloud
Online backups are a useful component of a well-balanced backup strategy. Whether you rely primarily on cloud storage for backups (see "Backup Basics") or use the cloud to supplement local backups such as bootable duplicates (see "Bulletproof Backups"), it's crucial to understand how you will go about restoring your data after disaster strikes.
- 05 November 2012
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How-Tos: How to share family contacts
Reader Walt Bischoff and his spouse--like all good couples--would like to share more of their lives with one another. He writes:
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How-Tos: Peek behind abbreviated Web links with Unshorten.it
Shortened links are everywhere these days, especially on Twitter, where long Web addresses are at odds with the 140-character message limit.
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How-Tos: 6 Kickstarter nightmares, and how to prevent them
For tens of thousands of entrepreneurs frustrated by Washington's arcane legal rules for raising business capital, Kickstarter has been nothing short of a red-tape weed whacker. The crowd-funding website lets individual investors pledge money directly to inventors and artists, handily upending the complex and often impossible process of raising financing one person at a time.
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How-Tos: How to print anything from anywhere: Your ultimate guide to mobile printing
Printing anything from anywhere is no longer fantasy. In fact, it's often a necessity if using a smartphone, tablet, or laptop is an essential part of your daily workflow.
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