Remote Working Part 2 – Why self discipline is important

Mobile | Wednesday September 30 2009 6:08 pm | Comments (0)

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The number one reason men and women fail to adjust to working remotely is they fail to recognise the criticality of having first rate organisation and robust self management.

I have been working remotely for almost a decade since I first uncovered Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software service and was inspired by the fact that if you can do accounting online then why shouldn’t it be viable to perform other important types of work away from the conventional office?

Whilst working remotely has substantial gains there are numerous pitfalls which convert into problems that result in decreased work output and reduced morale. The key reason for reductions in productivity in remote workers is disruption and it is a established and well publicised fact that it can take a professional up to 0.33 hours to return to their original productivity level after experiencing a disturbance.

Studies also show that persons who are continuously affected by disturbances are more likely to suffer from lower memory ability and are prone to developing mental health issues in old age. We exist in an over communicated era and it is essential that you know the issues this causes before you begin working remotely. Whilst operating remotely you have to do everything feasible to mitigate the threat of being distracted.

Here are my most important tips:

1, Get a routine, make sure that everybody knows it and stick to it!

Good examples are a regular time of day when you review or write and send electronic mail and make or receive phone conversatiions. Before I began working remotely I used to receive in the region of hundreds of e-mails every 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I get more than 5. To ’reset’ my electronic mail experience I modified my e-mail address and vigorously took steps to protect the details being passed on to anyone. I then educated every person who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it prudently. I also configured an auto-responder that swiftly informed anyone sending me mail my schedule for attending to mail and if someone required my urgent attention to mark it as ‘Urgent’.

2. Get rid of alerts.

Turn off every possible mechanism that can send you a interruption. This includes portable and
conventional phones and types of alerts from electronic mail such as visual alerts, warning sounds, screen changes to your inbox folder and of course facing a window. Get a door on your work place and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.

In ‘Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.

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Mobile Phones – An All Round Great Invention

Mobile | Tuesday September 29 2009 12:38 pm | Comments (0)

Most people around the world, young or old, own at least one mobile phone. Recent figures place the number of mobile phone owners at 2.7 billion and that a staggering 80 million text messages are sent every day. The modern phone is something that has developed from the first wireless technology used in the 1940’s. In fact, the first public phone call with a mobile was made in 1973 by Martin Cooper of the company, Motorola.

It is not hard to recognise that mobiles have come some distance since the 1970’s. How many of us would be lost without the myriad of functions and accessories that come as part of the modern mobile phones? It is fair to state that modern technology has paved the way for the mobile phone to be more than just a phone.

One thing that a mobile is useful for is text messaging. Text messaging is a favourite pastime of the younger generation and if you look closely you can see them texting with their eyes shut! Communicating with family, friends and colleagues is so much easier nowadays, thanks to the mobile phone. It is a certainty that the ease of text messaging has opened our eyes as to why it is important to keep in contact with those we love.

Currentmobile phones also allow us to listen to our favourite music. Many of the newer models essentially work in the same way as an mp3 player. You can download and store the songs that you like to listen to, plug in a set of headphones and away you go.   Downloading free ringtones is just one of the ways that people can enjoy music on their mobile phone.  The music that we download can be used as our signature tune and makes us stand out from the crowd. For those of us who are part of the older generation, it may also come in handy to alert you to the fact that it is our phone that is ringing, not someone else’s!

As well as the different kinds of music we can choose to appreciate on our mobiles, we can also play our own compositions. A ringtone maker presents the opportunity to take songs from your own music collection and place them on your handset. Software can be downloaded from a range of websites on the internet to allow us to do this. If you prefer, the software allows you to send the chosen music documents directly your handset. It is simple to undertake this process and a fast search of the internet will locate many free ringtone maker providers. The possibility to make ringtones is appealing to many users and this process allows them to personalise their handset even further.

As well as these popular uses, the mobiles of today present a range of applications that just make everyday life so much easier. Many older mobiles have applications that are practical for use every day including cameras, calculators and calendars. You will find a myriad advanced handsets that offer many more applications for the owner to utilise. You can take advantage of tools such as GPS, currency conversion, up-to-date news and games. It is one invention that may never die out – indeed, it may just keep going from strength to strength. cheap phone calls uk calling cards

Want To Learn How To Build iPhone Apps?

Mobile | Monday September 28 2009 8:18 pm | Comments (0)

 

If you have an iPhone, you are considered to be a very lucky individual and you know why? Everyone will see you as someone who seems to have the whole world right in his hands. You practically do a lot of things on your iPhone. You can chat with your friends, you can exchange files, you can open and edit data on it and you can even get to watch movies and play music with it. But there are other people who still are not satisfied with what they have. So, what they need to do is to learn how to build iPhone applications that is in accordance with their personalities or something they really want. The best part of this is they can make iPhone apps and sell it to someone else for a profit.

It is just human nature for someone who will feel that he is still not satisfied with what he has and this software that will help him learn how to create iPhone apps is the best thing that he can invest on. He won’t find it difficult in doing this because all the instructions that he will learn using this learning tool is very easy to understand and he doesn’t have to have some expert technical background about iPhones or something like that. Furthermore, with a book guide or software or any other learning tool to learn how to make iPhone applications, you can prevent yourself from messing things up. If your iPhone is still at its warranty period and then, you tried to build iPhone apps by yourself without knowing anything first, it could damage your iPhone. That’s why, before you need to do anything else on your iPhone other than what its manufacturer have told you to do, you should have a learning tool at hand and you can find the best guides on the Internet.

Remote Working Part 3 – ‘Tools of the trade’

Mobile | Sunday September 27 2009 9:37 am | Comments (0)

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Self discipline more….

Before I present to you my list of my favourite web tools that I promise will help you to work remotely, I need to alert you to one more item connected with self discipline and especially to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve spotted and verified a consistent trait in individuals who work on the Internet and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this habit the 50 minute effect. I discovered these men and women who apply themselves and work for fifty minutes and then pause for a whole 10 minute rest and are much more efficient and generate a substantially greater quality of work than contacts who don’t have structured working methods.

OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working tools:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. In my experience the search and label (a bit like folders) features are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s

Phone calls

Skype
used to infuriate me as the connection stability was unacceptable, but all credit to the developers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter Skype lets me call and conference in any phone and Skype subscriber on the planet. The current version of Skype has an abundance of excellent features and there constantly expanding collection of practical add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote
has connected more than a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.

Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM

You surely know that my desire to work remotely was originally motivated by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it is shadowed by the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a fork I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out. orange pay as you go

You must go Hands Free to keep out of harm’s way on our roads!

Mobile | Friday September 25 2009 7:11 pm | Comments (0)

Hand Held Mobile Phones Can Drive You To The Grave!
Cold Hard Fact or Myth? (excuse the pun there)
What the heck do you believe these days?
Below are some comments from Wikipedia on “Hands Free“. I have interlaced them with my own opinion. See if you concur!

“Driving while using a hands-free device is not safer than using a hand held cell phone, as concluded by case-crossover studies”.
Yeah Right! If you concur with this then you possess at least four arms furthermore you are bordering on being an octopus or octopussy depending on your sex.

“The increased “cognitive workload” involved in holding a chat, not the use of hands, causes the amplified risk”.
At least I agree with half the statement. Kind of like seeing a ‘babe’ or ‘hunk’ on the footpath and trying not to be mentally side tracked.

“One notable exception to that conclusion is a review by headset manufacturer Plantronics, which found 71 percent of the test subjects steered more accurately, 100 percent had quicker footbrake response times, and 92 percent maintained a more steady speed when using a headset versus handheld”.
Clearly! How can you disagree with facts from a study by the maker of a hands free device! If you are a conspiracy thinker, prejudiced they may appear bearing in mind the origin but in point of fact I CONCUR! (in general).

“The consistency of increased crash danger between hands-free and hand held mobile phone use is at odds with legislation in many locations that prohibit hand held  mobile phone use but allows hands-free”.
I believe I understand what they are saying!!!! 
Do I really care! What on earth happened to 
good old commonsense? Here’s a thought! Get a Hands Free Car Kit!

“Dialing a cell phone is more distracting than chatting 
on a cell phone, and hands-free devices that offer voice-dialing may 
diminish or get rid of that 
increased risk”.
Commonsense again I believe but isn’t it amazing how millions of dollars 
globally are sunk into commissioned studies where a immense percentage of findings turn out to be founded on common sense.
Have you lost your marbles?”

The stark realism is that, of all who have ventured without calamity in this domain, there will always be a sizeable number who will claim that their ability to multi-task will at all times allow them to use and manipulate a cell phone without any loss of cognitive or physical ability. What is more comical is that of that number  I think at least 50% will be male! Male’s multi-tasking? (Might want the Mythbusters here)
You of the female gender take notice. “We will govern the planet once again….. eventually! …..someday!”

Those of us who drive understand that there are numerous distractions and sadly for some a minimal distraction has lead to tragedy. Was it a mobile phone? Was it a visual interruption? Or was it a dropped CD into the passengers foot well that simply had to be retrieved and played ‘cos it had the choicest song in the world on it’?

If you are barreling down the street in a ton of gleaming metal on your own, no cars in sight, no lampposts, no girls in bikinis (this is mostly a male thing),  then who cares what you do?

The truth is simple. In a world where we actually still state that we care about our fellow man (aka person cos we need to be politically correct you know!) we ought to draw on what is commonly recognized as commonsense. 
YES! at 5 km/hr perhaps even 10km/hr we can manage virtually anything (even us guys) but at regular speeds most of us are not uncommonly gifted. However, We will still fight for our rights to make our own decisions. We will not let ‘BIG BROTHER’ person (whatever) run our lives. But unfortunately in some cases we truly need to stand back and ask ourselves. Was I still in complete control when that s.o.b. veered into my path at speed on a jam packed motorway? Did I really notice that teenager walking out from behind that automobile now that I see her in my rear vision mirror?
Some legislation is commonsense even if it does strip away a modicum of our invincible shell.

If you still think you are indestructible then have a thought for the rest of us. ‘GO HANDSFREE’ and save some one else’s woe!

Summary: Mobile Phones (aka cell phones) are a brilliant technological DISTRACTION when driving. BUT! Now that that’s sorted let’s target the nastiest culprit of all ‘THE DRIVING TEXTER’

Getting Automatic Cash Back With Mobile Phones

Mobile | Wednesday September 23 2009 1:41 pm | Comments (0)

Today, most cell phone outlets are offering automated money back on mobile telephones. This can raise some questions.  Why would a mobile phone retailer give cash back, and how will they give it back automatically? When you purchase a mobile phone through a retailer, you are essentially working with two companies, the network service supplier, and the retailer.

The retailer gets paid a commission by the network service provider for making them money by selling contracts for their services. The outlets get consumers by offering a selection of mobile phone deals.  Depending on the retailer, they offer free line rental line rental, free phones, or perhaps free gifts. One of these deals is automatic money back.  This is because the retailer can not change the price of the monthly plan thru the supplier, but they can give you money to compensate for the money you will pay in the future.

Say a consumer wanted to barter for a 40% savings on their contract for 12 months.  With automated cash back, what would occur is the retailer would just give the client whatever they want to save upfront in cash. A corresponding deal is named free or discounted line rental.  With discounted line rental {, however ,} the customer pays all bills, full price upfront, then submits paperwork and past bills in order to receive their money later on down the road. Automated money back was invented as an alternative to this in order to avoid many of the hassles associated with discounted line rental.  The guidelines in a few cases were terribly stern, and unless a purchaser was very organized and very vigilant, they would not receive their rebate.

Having the customer be paid straight away is assurance of being a blunder free exchange by both the retailer and the patron. The easiest way to find an automated money back mobile phone deal is online.  Online stores have far less overhead, as a general rule, than a physical shop.  phone comparison sites are the most useful for this. You can pick almost any combination of phones and plans and see precisely how much you may save straight away. Then compare comparison sights, see which of them will give you the best deals and promotions.  Dependent on who you go to to get your telephone, you might perhaps get a free phone, free present, and automated cash back.  The super thrifty could even use the cash they saved and got via rebate to pay their future bills.

With the time and cash saved by going through an online retailer, in many cases it is possible for people to have telephones they once thought that they couldn’t afford.

Backup Your Vital Business Contacts

Mobile | Tuesday September 22 2009 9:09 pm | Comments (0)

Being in business you will already understand the importance of networking and personal contacts. These days our mobile phones are really virtual assistants, keeping lists of contacts, things we need to do and appointments. But do we ensure that our valuable business data is backed up in case our phones are lost or damaged?

It has been estimated by cell phone providers that less than 15% of users actually copy their data from their phones. Its worth taking a few moments to consider what would happen if you lost all of the contact details you have on your mobile phone. Think about whether you have these details stored elsewhere?

These days I don’t take any risks and backup my telephone data every day. This is a new backup routine for me that started only after I’d lost my mobile phone while hiking. The result of this loss was huge. I’d built up a whole load of valuable business contact details on my cell phone. My business suffered enormously due to this loss. This is why I now have a daily cell phone backup routine. And I have my phone covered with mobile phone insurance to pay for a replacement the next time I lose it, which is bound to happen sooner or later.

Backing up your phone data should be a simple task if you refer to the applications that came with your phone. If it’s a Sony, Nokia or similar then you will have been provided with a disk full of applications that will include the facility to copy all of your telephone data to your computer. If you ever lose or replace your phone it should be a simple matter of copying the data back from your computer to your replacement handset.

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An overview of compatible ink cartridges

Business | Tuesday September 22 2009 9:05 am | Comments (0)

When considering the difference in price between Compatible and original Epson D92 ink cartridges and many other printers most people are left thinking – There must be something wrong with the compatible printer cartridges because they cost so much less. This is a common misconception and it not the reason why compatible printer ink cartridges are so much cheaper. The reason is for this is that compatible ink cartridges are made by third party companies who have no links to any printer manufacturers and they are much smaller companies with much lower overheads and can therefore sell alternative cartridges a lot cheaper than the big name OEM manufacturers. Compatible Epson ink cartridges offer the biggest savings over the equivalent OEM cartridges due to their design, Epson printers have the print head fixed to the printer carriage so the cartridges do not contain this expensive component and this means third party companies can make them very cheaply. The majority of Lexmark and HP printers have no print head, instead each cartridge contains an integrated print head and this make them expensive to manufacture. As a result third party companies can’t make and sell them at a price that is competitive to the OEM companies so they recycle empty OEM cartridges instead and re-brand them as their own. This process is known as remanufacturing and is quite labour intensive and it makes compatible ink cartridges for HP and Lexmark printers a little bit more expensive than from Epson but still offer good saving over the genuine OEM equivalents.

Mobile Phone Free Acer Laptop

Mobile | Monday September 21 2009 10:35 am | Comments (0)

Have you ever wondered how so many people have great looking, great functioning mobile phones and the hottest laptops, even though you know they don’t have much money to spend? Are you carrying around an old laptop that isn’t reliable or a phone that has lost its allure? If you said yes to any of the above, you need to find out about mobile phone free Acer laptop deals that are waiting for you now.

Who doesnt love technology? Free technology is even better. When you are in the market for a great new mobile phone, you can find really incredible phones for really low monthly rates. When you add a free Acer laptop to the mix, there’s no way you can resist. Look for hot new deals on the following cellular telephones, all with a free Acer laptop package included.

There are some really great phones that are currently on clearance sale that still qualify for a free Acer laptop. These phones are the top of the line in style and functionality. You can get incredible rates and monthly plans for these phones plus you get a great new Acer laptop to boot. It seems like you just can’t go wrong with these awesome deals. There are numerous clearance phones that you can choose from, here are just a few. The Nokia red 5310 mobile phone is a music lover’s paradise. With additional Micros card, you can enjoy 4GB of your favorite tunes on your Nokia phone. Download MP3, MP4, WMA and a variety of other formats.

The Pink LG Cookie phone has features you won’t believe. With a 3 inch touch screen and 3. 2 megapixels built in camera, you’ll have all of the functionality you could imagine. Take pictures on the go and publish them to your favorite social networking application. The Pink Samsung Tocco may also be of interest to young ladies who are looking for a little something funky to spice up their life. The Tocco is reminiscent of the model F480 mobile but the Tocco, of course, is girlie pink.

With the Tocco, you get a 5. 0 megapixel camera and camcorder built in. This is one of the highest quality camera phones on the market today. Don’t get left behind without your Tocco touch screen mobile phone.

If you’re interested in getting a clearance phone for less but are still looking forward to getting your free Acer laptop, you can pick up the Samsung J700 pink phone. You’ll love the looks of the J700; its reflective surface allows you to check your lipstick while you’re on the phone. What girl could ask for more? The J700 is equipped with all of the features you’re looking for, a 1. 3 megapixel camera, built in camcorder and much more.

You can find these and many other great deals online when you’re shopping for the latest mobile telephones. All of these phones offer packages that range from 100-700 or more minutes a month of any time talk time. You can also get anywhere from 100 to an unlimited number of monthly texts with participating plans.

Get a great bargain with mobile phone free Acer laptop deals that are available now. Phones and plans vary, you’ll need to check back frequently for the latest great packages.

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What is the difference between home phone and cell phone in reverse phone number search?

Mobile | Sunday September 20 2009 12:31 am | Comments (0)

Sometimes people would like to run a reverse phone number look up to get owner’s information associated with a phone number , such as name, address, etc. It will be better if you can get it without payment . But, the actual situation is , sometimes you can get it for free, but sometimes you can’t.

In a reverse phone search, if it is a home phone number, then you may be very lucky to get the information without paying. But if it is a cell phone number, then probably you don’t have the good luck. Why?

Because the landline phone owner’s information is public information. It is very easy for others to get this information by going to some public directories, such as white pages, or some web sites. When a user is signing up for a home phone service, the phone company will always ask if you want to remove your information from the public directory by paying an extra fee. In order to save money, many people will select “no”. Therefore, the public directory will include your private information. When people run a reverse phone look up by entering your phone number into a phone directory, they can find it for free.

If you are signing up for a cell phone, the cell phone company will not release it to the public . But this doesn’t mean it will keep your information as a secret. The cell phone company may have partnership with other reverse cell phone search companies, which provide reverse phone number search services to the public by charging a certain fee . Your information is still listed in some directories. Others can’t find your information in the free public phone lists even if they have your cell phone number. They need to pay the fee to run a reverse cell phone number lookup in order to get the information .

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