Today I conducted a presentation for AIM’s Knowledge Hour series on Social Media.  Above is the presentation I did using prezi.com.

There’s not much in the way of software that I pay for, in fact I go out of my way in many cases to find the free and open source alternatives.  But sometimes free costs a lot more that you think; free sometimes means slower, less functional, buggy… not always but sometimes.
So if you had to buy some stuff, what would you buy?
Here my list:

Roboform – US$29.95.  The best password manager, form filler and instant search builder available.  One master password for all your other websites is a dream.  I …

I’ve been using Excel and these shortcuts for such a long time that I virtually take them for granted.  Here’s a quick video of these if you don’t feel like reading…

Regardless, here are the 5 keyboard shortcuts that save my alot of time:

Multi-Line text in a cell – ALT+Enter. This is like hitting enter in a word processor to make a new line, but in the same cell.  It’s good for column headings that are a little long and you want to control the wrapping manually.
Autosum – ALT + =. …

About 8 weeks ago we got our first Mac computer, it will actually be used for some video and graphics work at some point in the future and I’m toying with the idea of making an iPhone App but that’s a low priority.  One of the biggest issues really has been printing oddly enough.
The computer is actually primarily used by my 5 year old daughter for playing games on nick junior and other websites.  Most of these involve some sort of drawing and printing combination and she is a little …

Mitch on Six Pixels has a great attitude when it comes to managing SPAM.
It’s pretty simple: sending someone a commercial message when you do not have their permission to do so is spam. It’s a message they did not ask for or request.
The challenge of course is trying to follow the right people and then make sure you are not getting a stream full of SPAM.  There is a way I’ve discovered though that tends to alleviate this issues.  My experience is that spammers are using automation tools to send …