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Avoid the Subscription Blues

The beginning of a new year is always a good time to think about ways to save some money on your annual subscriptions for a lot of software packages, primarily security and financial software. A few examples: Security Software: This is software for internet security, firewalls, anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. Most of these packages, whether [...]

Nix the extended warranty

Black Friday is nearly upon us, and one question that will be asked between 50 million and 100 million times this weekend it “do you want the service plan?” Financial people all over the place recommend that you don’t get them, but supposed there is another option to “just say no”. Say instead “Hmmm… how [...]

Updated Tools of the Trade Part 2

Reinforcing that we don’t want to design websites, we want to implement websites to support our content distribution strategies with minimal configuration, customization, and deployment timelines. Aside from some specialty applications like event calendars, FAQs and photo galleries, we’re building around a few basic engines. The engine choices for a particular site are driven by [...]

Updated Tools of the Trade Part 1

We’ve implemented a substantial number of changes over the past several months, the major drivers for this have been some vast improvements in the tools we use. Here is a brief rundown, with more details coming over the next several posts. Our primary function is the creation, publication and syndication of content, not designing websites. [...]

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