PC Tips & Tricks

By: Dustin Baker

Small businesses face numerous pressures. The few employees of the business are responsible for trying to get orders, organizing deliveries, billing for the deliveries, paying bills and manage the incidentals involved in these key activities.

Good document management software can take over much of the work and free the small businessperson to focus on the business. We look at this issue in more detail below.
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By: Christa Kowalczyk

With the help of laser cartridges, you can save important raw materials, waste and energy. There are a lot of ways you can do this and even recycle laser cartridges.

The environmental battle cry is to “reduce, reuse and recycle!”

You can save important raw materials, waste and energy by using your laser cartridges again. In fact, there are approximately 44 million laser cartridges that are bought every year in Europe. 95% of these laser cartridges in the UK are thrown out after only one usage. Every cartridge has 1 to 2 liters of oil. It also has aluminum and steel. Every time you repeat using these cartridges, you will save these important, non-renewable resources and energy.
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By: Mukul Gupta

MySQL is a rock solid, lighting fast database server which has been designed for two factors speed and performance. It is the Ferrari of databases: Light weight, fast and Built for the high speed tracks!

I still hear an awful lot of stories from owners whose databases are running two slow. In my experience, the three main places to look for problems are:
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By: Stephanie Yeh

When you are running your own network marketing or MLM business on a budget, nothing sounds better than the word “free“. What sounds even better is “free and good“. And although things in this world are rarely free and good at the same time, it is possible to find both free and good if you know where to look. If you are looking for ways to maximize your network marketing dollar then you should definitely check out these three types of MLM free software.

The three kinds of MLM free software we discuss in this article are designed to help you reach out to your prospects and stay in touch with them via email and the internet. When you are working with a medium as impersonal as the internet, it is truly important to reach out and make contact in as many ways as possible. An old network marketing statistics tells us that it can take seven to twelve contacts with a prospect before they even know you exist. That’s a lot of contacts! That’s why you want to use as many automated tools as possible to make this job as easy as possible. The three kinds of software we are going to discuss in this article are email/ezine software, blogging software, and PDF software. All of the software mentioned in this article is available for download on multiple sites, including http://www.tucows.com and http://www.download.com.
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By: Anupama Joshi

In the competitive world of mobile phones there seems to be a trend occurring and that is the rise of an iconic phone either by great media exposure or just by cutting edge technology.

We see most of the top manufacturers at one time or another cut into the market this way; Motorola had the v3 series, Samsung had the U600 onwards, LG had the Prada and Nokia has the Nokia N95.
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by: James Wallis

Unless the backup is updated, this is accompanied by a sinking feeling as we realise that certain parts of the data are gone for good.

Data loss is a classic example of a preventable disaster, and we have no one to blame except ourselves in the aftermath.

What is Data Backup ?

How do we remember the phone numbers of all the people we know? We can’t memorize it all. So we can note it down in a diary. What if this diary is lost? It would either take us days to get back everything again, or we wouldn’t be able to complete the list at all. Most people use both their cell phone memory as well as a physical phone book / notepad. The process of creating a copy of necessary information at another location is called taking data backup. We save some data only if it is needed, so it makes sense to ensure what we saved remains intact. Backup, then, consists of the following steps:
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Light travel faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Microsoft seems to be unsatisfied by common displays, so they want to make a display out of every thing they can touch. Their last project is a spherical display.
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This is a small shell script I use to organize my pictures.
I usually download pictures from my digital camera to a folder and from time to time I want to put them in the folder corresponding to the date I took them. This script reads the EXIF data from the pictures and copies them to where they belong. The directory structure looks like this:
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In this post I will show you how to connect to a MySQL database, retrieve data from it and insert data in it using Python.

What you need:
1. Python v. 2.3.4 or newer
2. MySQL v. 3.23 or newer
3. MySQLdb – the Python DB API-2.0 interface
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