A USB drive is an easy and portable way to keep your information organized on the go. You can use it to store sales presentations, product photography, proposals, and other essential documents. Going a step further you can also bring your applications with you. PortableApps.com provides a number of free applications that can be installed directly on your USB drive, allowing you to bring programs like your web browser links and settings with you. For busy professionals this low cost solution is cheaper and more portable than a PDA or laptop. It just may be time to put your business on your key chain.

As more business information is stored on computers, it is extremely important that this data is being backed up. We continue to hear stories from non-profits, businesses and individuals about how they lost everything due to a hard drive crash. More often, we suffer from accidentally deleting a file or writing over it. Like the insurance policies we have on our cars, businesses and homes, it is comforting to know there is a way to recover from information loss. Read the rest of this article »

At this point, everyone surfing the web has undoubtably encountered Adobe’s Macromedia Flash files (SWF). Flash is everywhere and can be anything. But what is Flash really, and why is it so prevalent?
Flash is a timeline-based software application which allows artists & developers to seamlessly integrate many forms of media into a single presentation. Using Flash, web-authors can present graphics, photos, video, animation, music, sound fx, text and data in one application. Read the rest of this article »