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Paypal, Square, and 1099s

January 2, 2012 Read the full article →

Question Do you have any idea how Paypal and Square up deal with 1099 reporting for the IRS? Answer Paypal Starting in 2011, all US payment providers including PayPal will be required by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to report sales information to the IRS about certain customers who receive payments for the sale of goods or services through [...]

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The difference between absolute and relative paths

December 26, 2011 Read the full article →

Question We are working on a small website page that uses iframes. Part of our instructions are saying we need to use absolute paths instead of relative paths. What is the difference? Answer When using image in web pages your images don’t live inside the source code, they live as a file (jpg, gif, png, [...]

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Small Steps to Get Big Results

December 5, 2011 Read the full article →

My good friend Michelle Chance-Sangthong recently presented at the Jacksonville American Marketing Association’s “Fascinate Me” event. I always enjoy her speaking and she always has a great view on how to get things done. She is the author of “Incremental Marketing on a Micro Budget”. The video below she talks about the process of using [...]

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File Naming: Why Can’t Anyone Open My File?

November 28, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Can you tell me why people can’t open this PDF ad file you sent me? Can I fix it? Answer Because the file got renamed with periods in it and doesn’t have the .pdf after it any more. The extra periods make the computer think it is an extension it doesn’t recognize and the [...]

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Having Problems Syncing iCloud Bookmarks Across Devices?

November 21, 2011 Read the full article →

iCloud is mostly fantastic. For the most part, it syncs everything effortlessly. However, if you upgraded your iPhone, iPad, or other device in such a way that it deviated slightly from the approved path, you may find yourself with a bookmark mess. You fix them, you delete them, you sync them. They work! And suddenly [...]

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Broken Email Flow Chart

October 10, 2011 Read the full article →

I get a decent amount of questions that all refer to people’s email not working. While there are a million things that can go wrong with your email, this covers the bulk of them.

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My WordPress Edits Look Funny After I Published Them

October 3, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Hey Lena – I went in to edit post area on the one of my WordPress pages and when I make a change to the text and pressed preview the text appeared on a white box over the background image and looks funny. Can you please let me know how to fix this so [...]

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How do I removed iTunes apps from the “update” list?

September 19, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Over the last few years I’ve purchases A LOT of apps for my iPhone, iPad, and iPods. As time moves on I find that I have lots of applications that I don’t want any more, yet I still continue to get notified when there are updates for them through iTunes. How can I delete [...]

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Is there an undo on my iPad or iPhone?

September 5, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Is there something on my iPad keyboard that works as an “undo” like Control-Z? Answer Yes. But it isn’t on your keyboard. Standard iPad and iPhone apps (like Mail and Notes) has a way to undo your last action (like typing or deleting a chunk of text. How do you achieve this wonder? It’s [...]

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Change your Menu Icons on your Macintosh

August 22, 2011 Read the full article →

I use plenty of those cute little icons at the top of my monitor screen. But, sometimes I want to change one of them. This tutorial will teach you how to change your Menubar icons. In this example, I will change the Time Machine icon: Navigate your computer to : /system/library/coreservices/menu extras You should probably [...]

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