Hints & Tips

5 Awesome Collaboration Tools

There are a lot of tools out there that you can use to collaborate with others.  Here’s a list of my favourites, none of which should be totally unheard of. Dropbox–   My favourite way to share files with clients.  I’ve got folders for all of my clients and most of their documents and graphics

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How to filter spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are a wonderful way to store and analyse large amounts of data.  There are many ways that you can sort, extract and display pieces of information.  One of the easiest, if not THE easiest to use is the Filter. To apply a filter In both Microsoft Excel and Google Documents Spreadsheets filters can be

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Windows Shortcut Keys

It’s time for another post about shortcut keys.  This time I’m focusing on some of the shortcut keys that work on Windows.  They should all work in most versions of Windows. Shortcuts using the WINDOWS KEY Windows Key – Opens the Start Menu Windows +D – Minimizes open windows and displays the desktop.  Use it

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Much adieu about nothing?

I got an email newsletter the other day that exhorted…. So without further adieu, click here to buy my product Umm, without further adieu?  Really? Sorry, but on that note I DO bid you adieu good sir! See, the thing is that you obviously don’t know the phrase but you decided to use it anyway

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Cleaning out your Gmail inbox

From time to time you’re probably going to want to clean out your Gmail inbox.  There are a couple of ways you can do it.  To discard messages altogether, you can delete it.  Alternatively, to remove it from the inbox, but keep it for further reference you can archive it. Delete the message To delete

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