New Excel Videos On alphacomputer.ca Site

I just added new Microsoft Excel videos to my http://www.alphacomputer.ca web site.  One video gives an overview of what Microsoft Excel can do.  I plan to do some videos on Microsoft Word.  It has been real busy this Summer with all the training I have done. Check it out and send me some feedback.

Moving Laptop Computer

It is not a good idea to move your laptop computer while it is turned on and the hard drive is spinning.  If you have to move it any distance, (I am not talking inches), you should turn it off first.  Then turn it back on when you get to where you need to go.  This will avoid harm to your laptop hard drive. 

Solid state hard drives for laptops are coming which will be great.

TO find more info regarding computer tips, go to http://alphacomputer.ca/Alpha_Computer_Blog.htm

Are You Ready For Fall?

Summer is pretty much over as well as the Summer vacations.  It is time to get focused on this new season for business.  So what are you going to do?  What are you doing to improve yourself and your business?

Here's a thought: take a few moments before work,when it is quiet, and think about what you need to do and how you are going to do it.  If you do not plan your day, someone else will!

Continuous Learning For Business

Things in business change so quickly.  That's why as a business, you need to add some time for learning and keeping up with trends that are critical for your business.  Staying still, so to speak, is not an option.  So how do you find the time?

If you drive a lot, trying listening to a training CD.  Plan training times and protect them as best as possible so that other things do not crowd them out.  Plan to get together with someone who can challenge as well as inform you.  Plan to make it happen, and it will happen.  Hope it will happen, and you will be left standing still.

http://www.alphacomputer.ca/Alpha_Computer_Training.htm is my other training blog.

Cheers.

Password Protect Your Laptop

Make sure your put a password on your laptop computer.  If it is lost or stolen, it may help protect your data. 

I got a call from a girl last night asking how to get into a password protected laptop.  She had forgotten her password from three weeks ago.  The alarm bells went off for some reason.  I told her to take it to a repair shop.  At least the repair shop could really check to see if it was her laptop.

So save yourself some grief.  Put a password on your laptop.  Not sure your password is any good?  Check out Microsoft's password checker at: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx .

For more info on computer stuff, check out my web site at: http://www.alphacomputer.ca .

Get Google First Page Rank With Video

I saw how a web site could obtain front page "Google" within a day using video and TrafficGeyser.com .  This is a viable idea that business should be using.  I believe that I heard that 51% of all Internet traffic is video.  Business needs to use video also to become more effective.  After all, people have different learning styles and advertising should reflect this.

I can not seem to find the video showing "how to", but I will try to put the video on my web site if I can not find the link.  I recorded the video because it is a keeper.

http://www.alphacomputer.ca

Cooking Your Laptop

I have talked about it before, but this is a point worth mentioning again.  Make sure you keep your laptop from over heating.  A laptop cooling tray is ideal to force the warm air out of the confined space.  Make sure that you are not laying your laptop on a table cloth or some material that could rise up and block the air intake.  If no air goes in, your laptop will start to over heat.  Make sure you check for this.  Keeping your laptop cool will lengthen the life span of the unit.

For more info check out the Alpha Computer web site at: http://www.alphacomputer.ca .