Technology

Microsoft Windows

How to Manage Startup Programs in Windows 7

After several months and many software programs installed, a Windows 7 machine has a tendency to start getting a little slower. You would be amazed at how many little programs have startup applications, each eating up a bit of your system’s memory until things start getting really sluggish. Microsoft has a free application called AutoRuns to manage these startup applications.

Microsoft Windows

How to Backup Your Computer in Windows 7

Backing up your Windows 7 computer is an important tasks that you must do. With more and more of our personal information, photographs, data, and business files being stored digitally, it’s important to ensure they are kept safe and secure. Windows 7 backup can help you do that. Learn how to backup your computer.

Microsoft Excel

Sorting Data Using Multiple Columns in Excel

Microsoft Excel is great at processing large amounts of data. You can quickly look at information, calculate different values based on it, and sort data to find the largest or smallest values. You can also sort multiple columns of data so you can sort on multiple data points. Learn how in this Excel tutorial.

Microsoft Excel

Using Go To Special in Excel

Go To Special allows you to select unique types of cells such as blank ones, formulas, numbers, and more. This is a great command to clean data and process your Excel spreadsheet.

Software Applications

QuickBooks 2010 Data Backup and Maintenance

One of the worst feelings is when you lose important data on your computer when you know you could have backed it up. QuickBooks makes it very easy to save backups of your company file and performing other maintenance tasks. Learn more in this free QuickBooks tutorial on maintaining your company data.

General Business / Internet

How to Comply with the COPPA Law

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) applies to the online collection of personal information from children under 13. If you operate a commercial website or online service directed to children under 13, you must follow these rules to ensure compliance with the law.

WordPress

How to Show a List of Custom Taxonomy Terms in a WordPress Post

WordPress has offered custom taxonomy functionality for years, but it hasn’t taken center stage until WordPress 3.0 and the easy capability to create custom post types. Custom taxonomies are easy ways to create your own hierarchical terms (similar to post categories) or tags (similar to post tags). Learn how to display the custom taxonomy terms on a post or in a tag cloud.

WordPress

How to Query Custom Posts Using a Custom Taxonomy Term in WordPress

WordPress custom post types, new in version 3, is one of the most exciting enhancements to WordPress to bring it closer to full content management system (CMS) functionality. With custom post types came custom taxonomies. In this Wordpress tutorial, you will learn how to query custom posts in a certain custom taxonomy.

Software Applications

How to Choose a QuickBooks Version

In the early days of small business accounting software, Intuit offered a single version of its popular accounting software QuickBooks. This made your decision easy – QuickBooks or a competitor. Now, you have multiple versions of QuickBooks to select from as well. Learn how to find the right QuickBooks software for you.

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