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Windows

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:30:27 +0000

If you overwrite text in an edit box by mistake, you can quickly undo your action by pressing ALT + BACKSPACE. This key combination will undo many actions in many different Windows applications – quite convenient!

App of the Week: Instagram

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Looking for a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures? Instagram is photo sharing, reinvented. Just snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. Go ahead, click away … and it’s all free!

Site of the Week: Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:30:42 +0000

Not to be gruesome, but the death of college football coaching legend Joe Paterno last weekend may have got you wondering who is still among us and who has traveled to the great beyond. This site is dedicated to helping you find out which of the noted celebrities of our time are with us and which ones have died.

Social Media Must of the Week: Memes

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:55:25 +0000

What, exactly, is a meme, you ask? If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media sites, no doubt you’ve heard things referenced to as memes. Truth be told, a meme isn’t the result of the Internet. Instead, a meme originally referenced a discrete “package of culture” that would travel via word of mouth. Essentially, urban legends, fables, jokes, or expressions like “Gag Me With a Spoon,” are all considered memes.

With today’s technology, though, memes travel in many different forms, not just by word-of-mouth. Thanks to the Internet, memes appear in the form of forwarded e-mails, instant messages, web page links, and more. In fact, Mashable has what they call a Meme Machine– which is a daily look at five hilarious viral topics spreading across the web. You can see what’s spreading like wildfire across our culture and laugh with the rest of the world!

Windows

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:00:01 +0000

On your way to a meeting and need to log off your computer fast? Sometimes CTRL + ALT + DELETE aren’t quick enough. Lose a step and save time by simply pressing the Windows Logo + L.

Commercial Industrial Builders, Inc.

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:00:13 +0000

“Working with Spellmann & Associates on our new website was a pleasure and now that it has launched, I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s hard work pay off. The site is light years from what we had, so we expect it to generate more leads, especially with the attention Spellmann & Associates is giving to getting our site found in search engine results. That’s one of the main reasons we chose Spellmann & Associates to build our new site.”

Paul Gilbert
CIB Estimating/Sales

Visit Commercial Industrial Builders, Inc.

online at D esignBuildAmarillo.co m to find out more about design/build projects.

Online Identity Review

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:46:33 +0000

Each New Year offers new beginnings. In business, some are looking for new careers while others are looking to grow in their current positions. Regardless of your business goals for the New Year, there are two things you should do. The first, brushing up the resume, may already be ingratiated into your routine. While you’re at it, take a look at your online image, as well. Most employers check social and other sites to see if you are a good match for their company – whether they are hiring you for a job or looking to retain the services your business provides. Here are just a few tips to follow in branding your online identity.

There are a ton of sites out there, but keep competitive and have profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Use them regularly to promote yourself and your business.
If you don’t already have one, get a professional head shot, especially for your LinkedIn profile. Even though some of us don’t like to have our pictures taken, our face is our identity – so put it out there.
Whether it’s LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or some other social site, drive traffic to your website by promoting it. Include a link in all online discussions to help generate more traffic. Also add a clickable link to your website in your auto signature.
Include social media icons on your website, your e-mail signature and other appropriate areas to help encourage sharing.
Make sure your website has a place to capture visitor information – especially if you distribute an electronic newsletter or running a promotion.

While these are just a handful of tips, there is so much more to social media, and it changes daily. To keep yourself competitive in today’s marketplace, keep educated.

Excel

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:59 +0000

Many tips are interchangeable between Word and Excel and this tip is one of them. Most of us know that CTRL + Z is a nifty tool for undoing a keystroke – it’s much easier than using the mouse and hunting for that dastardly undo arrow. Likewise, rather than searching the world over for the redo arrow, press CTRL + Y!

Word

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:00:15 +0000

Got a report due first thing in the morning and last minute edits are driving you crazy? Don’t despair! You can delete entire words by simply pressing the CTRL + BACKSPACE keys at the same time. You can tear through those terrible sentences that sounded good earlier in the day in a more efficient manner!

Internet

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:59 +0000

Easily track airline flights and packages on Google. If you need to know if your mother-in-law is going to arrive via American Airlines on time, just go onto Google and enter the airline and flight number. It will display the status of an airline flight and it’s arrival time. Google can also give a direct link to package tracking information if you enter a UPS, FedEx or USPS tracking number – great information to keep handy for the holidays!