Downloading videos from YouTube*, Google Videos, Myspace, Facebook and other popular video sites requires the use of downloader programs, browser addons or online video tools. Some downloaded video file formats may not play in your preferred video player. This article is intended to help you through...

As described by Microsoft: When you try to perform a backup in the Central Admin page, the backup disk space requirements are not calculated correctly. Even though you have sufficient disk space, you may receive the following error message: The URL ‘url to uploaded doc’ is invalid. It ma...

If you exchange gifts during the holidays, I'll bet you received at least one gift that was totally wrong for you.  I'm talking about the gift that made you scratch your head and say to yourself "What the heck am I going to do with this?"  Perhaps aunt Maggie purchased that red-feathered fedora (s...

A common question I receive from people interested in my real estate, mortgage and insurance customer newsletters is whether they can send them using their own email software rather than the hosted service I offer. (With a hosted service, you upload your email list to a website, which looks after th...

Microsoft has recently announced Digital Content Direct, a free service that allows you to have the latest Microsoft product information embedded in your website. Digital Content Direct has been created for partners who like to highlight or promote Microsoft products on their website. This free serv...

I'll be the first to admit that I purchase way too many things on Amazon. However, when you have a Prime account, like I do (where you get free 2-day shipping on almost everything you buy), it makes it hard......

Kim likes to tease me on the radio show each week for my former role in "financial pornography." That's the term she uses to describe the mainstream financial press, which includes my former employer, The Dallas Morning News Business section. While I don't consider my former colleagues pur...