Yes you can transfer ownership of a Facebook Fan Page

I was recently asked how someone could transfer ownership of a fan page they created to someone else.  This person no longer wanted a personal profile but they did want to retain the business page and the large group of fans they had painstakingly built up. Thankfully...

Turbo Boost Your Comments – Build a Community

Turbo Boost Your Comments – Build a Community

The folks behind Disqus are brilliant.  They have taken the concept of leaving comments, souped it up, tricked it out and turned it into a lean mean community building machine. This is truly one of the most perfectly designed plugins I have ever used. It is easy to...

Separate First And Last Names Into Two Columns In Excel

Separate First And Last Names Into Two Columns In Excel

Inevitably, when you import information into Excel you will need to separate a cell’s contents into two columns. Let’s say you have imported a list of addresses but you need to separate the first and last names so you can use them in a mail merge letter. Step 1:...

Need A Free Alternative to PhotoShop?  Here you go!

Need A Free Alternative to PhotoShop? Here you go!

GIMP is not Adobe Photoshop CS4, but it is an amazingly powerful and efficient open-source bitmap-­editing package that can look just as confusing as Adobe Photoshop CS4if you open all its floating toolbars and sidebars. You'll need to get used to its nonstandard...

Make Your Website More Interactive

Make Your Website More Interactive

Making your site more interactive can increase the number of visitors who return and who tell others about your site. In other words you want to give you visitor's reasons to keep coming back again and again. First and foremost content is king. You must have good,...

Convert Audio Rip CDs and More

Convert Audio Rip CDs and More

Here are two good (and of course free) options for manipulating audio files. dBpowerAMP lets you rip CDs, convert files, and record audio. It supports MP3, MP4, M4a, WMA, OGG, AAC, APE, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and more. This app integrates with Windows, so you can...

Need to Edit Audio?  You need Audacity!

Need to Edit Audio? You need Audacity!

Audacity is a powerful audio editing/recording software package that doesn't require much training. It works on Linux, Mac and Windows, and it handles many file types, including OGG, MP3, AIFF, AU, and WAV (but not WMA or AAC). Its features include 32-bit/96-KHz...

A Sleak Alternative to Adobe Reader Bloat

A Sleak Alternative to Adobe Reader Bloat

Anyone who has used Adobe Reader knows it is a huge resource hog.  On a older system or one with limited resources AR can slow you to a crawl or stop you altogether (actually this true of every Adobe product I have ever used!!!).  Well here is a sweet, sleek...

Convert Any File To A PDF – For FREE

Convert Any File To A PDF – For FREE

Today I am going to tell you about my favorite FREE PDF convertor - CutePDF.  In spite of the sugary name it is an excellent piece of software and it is super easy to use - if you can print you can make a PDF.  I especially like the fact that you can create a PDF from...

Why Website Builders Are Bad For Your Biz

Why Website Builders Are Bad For Your Biz

Over the last year I have had quite a few businesses come to me to make changes or updates to sites that had been built with one of the many website building systems available. In every single case we had to start over and rebuild their site from scratch. In each case...