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Get Virtual Assistance- For Free!

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:16:41 +0000

Don’t you sometimes get baffled with being continuously bombarded with too much info all at once? Does such pressure leave you disorganized? Do you sometimes fail to properly organize thoughts? If so, assistance and tools (thanks to technology) are here to help you. And you can benefit from them for free!

Modern technology at least is here to help us with such needs. Did you know that you could organize your thoughts and have them noted down for you even if you are not near your computer? Need to send an important e-mail, but you’re busy driving on the road? With the use of online tools such as Jott, you can safely and securely call a toll-free telephone number and speak for up to 30 seconds hands-free. Your voice message is then transcribed to text using a combination of software and human transcribers. The message can be sent back to yourself, turned into a reminder, sent to a contact or group, or sent to a third-party link. Transcribed messages can be sent to recipients via email, text message, or both.

Maybe you liked something you saw? Maybe it gave you some special ideas for a project or a task? Perhaps you have too many notes but have problems fixing them in an orderly fashion? Evernote can help. Evernotecan help you remember things by typing a text note, clipping a web page, snapping a photo or grabbing a screenshot, then safely storing it on a secure database. Everything you’ve captured or noted can be easily searched, organized and labeled.

These two services also can go hand in hand. You can list Evernoteas one of your Jott contacts. When you send a Jott message to Evernote, it’s automatically transcribed and added to your Evernote account. You can then go back and conveniently search for it later.

(By the way, I’m not a sales agent for Jott or Evernote).

Stuck Print Jobs on Windows

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:34:45 +0000

Sometimes your various print jobs might get stuck in the printer’s queue. If you’ve tried deleting the job in the printer’s job list (right-click and select delete). Below are the steps I follow:

If you are on Vista, Windows XP or Windows 7, go through the following steps to restart the printer spooled files.

Go to Control Panel
Select System and Maintenance (skip this step for Windows 7)
Select Administrative Tools
Double-click on Services
In the list of services, scroll down until you find one called “Print Spooler”
Right-click on “Print Spooler” and select “Restart”
The “deleted” jobs will disappear and any queued jobs in your print queue will print

These are other print spool solutions from Windows as well.

Computer Tip: Go back in time

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:47:23 +0000

If you’ve installed some software or your PC is acting up you can use System Restore to bring your computer back in time to a day that it was working.

Follow these steps:

Select Start | Programs
Accessories | System Tools | System Restore
Click Restore my computer to an earlier time
Follow the instruction in the next window.

Computer Tip: Bypass your PC password

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:42:46 +0000

Oops, you forgot your personal computer password (and you didn’t use the save password wizard).
Follow these steps to bypass this password.

Reboot your PC and press until you see the Windows start-up options.
Use the arrow keys to highlight Safe Mode, and press .
Select Administrator (a hidden account without a password).
Open the Control Panel | User Accounts and select your account
Click Change the password, and follow the instructions to reset it.

Computer Tip: Copying your error message

admin — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:56:02 +0000

When you get an error message, sometimes it may be too long to copy on paper to send to your tech support. A solution would be to press to copy the message the to past the error alert into your email message.

If the picture is too big, press (Ctl) (Print Screen) at the same time to capture an image of the error message box. Then you you can paste the screen into Windows Paint imaging utility and press into the picture. Save the picture as a JPEG and you can attach the picture to your e-mail and send to your tech support person.