Recently, I was playing around with Don's Samsung phone and stumbled on a neat feature.  Maybe the younger crowd already knew this, but we old keyboarder types forget we can now use our Voice instead of our fingers.  Case in point - you can use voice recognition doing searches and launch it even quicker with a command. Cut down on the time it takes to manually search for things by doing it with your voice. To activate vocal control over Google searches, go to the apps screen and

Ok, I'm mad.  This weekend I am getting to spend time, which I didn't have much of, fixing an issue on my mom's computer.  It's not the fixing my mom's computer that has me mad - it's why we have to do it in the first place.  What happened to her is happening to lots of people and that vulnerability is the real topic of this blog article. Here's what happened. We, as I am sure a lot of you are as well, are the tech support for our parents and their computer usage.  

One of the cool things you can do with ACT! is pull in data into Excel for nice pivot charts and tables.  However, every once in a while Excel and ACT get a "divorce."  By that I mean they stop talking to each other and you get an error when you attempt to connect to a table in ACT.  Here's our tip to fix this. I just ran into this on my own ACT database and stumbled on a known fix that is actually quite simple.  You remove your ACT password.  Yep.  That simple. &

It's Fast Tip time.

Are you out of town and having a problem doing an Internet sync with ACT? Some routers will get grumpy with DNS settings or proxies, especially hotels. This will cause the sync to not work. Here's something that might help.

Open a Command prompt - make sure you right click on the Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator. Then, on the prompt, type in the following:

ipconfig /flushdns

This will clear out your computers "brain" and what it remembers as DNS settings.

Lots of people are enjoying our new Friday did you know so I am asking my staff for ideas to keep this going.  Don said "you know what I use all the time?  The Follow up button when I close an activity." It really is a good button and makes sense.  You just closed an activity - it's probably not the last thing you are doing with the project/client/task so why not create a followup that automatically puts in the existing subject line and all you have to do is pick a date.  It

So, those of us with iPhones and Ipads have finally decided it's safe to update our devices to IOS 8.1.  And we realize our batteries don't last half the time they used to. What the heck.No worries.  There is a potential fix.  I found this out on the web doing a Google Search.On either device, go into Settings - General - Reset.  You want to reset all options.You won't lose data - you will lose your passwords for wireless hubs, etc.  But it's so much better re-entering that information than

I use Google Chrome as my browser and so do a lot of my customers.  There are some handy keyboard shortcuts I use all the time - and I thought I'd save the official list here for others as well. Tabs and windows Ctrl+N Open a new window Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito mode Ctrl+T Open a new tab Ctrl+O Open a file in the browser Ctrl+Shift+Q (twice) Sign out of your Google Account on Chrome OS Ctrl+W Close the current tab Ctrl+Shift

While practicing for my upcoming Virtual Roadshow, I noticed that when I went into Remote Desktop to access my virtual machine, it was not truly going full screen. Well, that was a bummer. I closed the remote desktop session and when I clicked on the Remote Desktop icon to restart it, I decided to click on the Options button to see if I could resolve this issue.  Sure enough, when I clicked on the DISPLAY tab, there was a slider bar that was not all the way to the right.  Once I