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92 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need

Posted by on Thursday, May 10th, 2007






Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer. From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about. Organization If you’re busy with […]






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Announcing PostWisdom for FireFox: Your Personal Blog Writing Coach

Posted by on Sunday, April 29th, 2007






Imagine reading an article about blogging from your favorite blogging guru. After a couple of sentences you become excited. The article is really good. It contains an amazing technique. A technique that will make you a better blogger. Using this technique, you immediatly whip out a shining blog post. When it’s time to write another […]






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The Information Leak in The Online Collaboration Sink

Posted by on Monday, December 11th, 2006

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Learn why information leaks in online collaboration applications are important to you Earlier, I promised that I would look into online collaboration tools. I started looking into Zoho, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Thinkfree and others. I was a bit worried that these services created an opening for security violations. What I found was downright scary. […]






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Purchase-order tracking system based on Excel 2007: current process and requirements

Posted by on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Purchase Order Tracking Sheet






Current process In a previous post, I said that we would be developing a new purchase-order tracking system in Excel 2007. I started by interviewing the customers. I sat down with Inbal, our “accounting department,” and this is what she said … Today, we have a licenses management solution [Nick named Hendrix]. Every purchase is […]






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Purchase-order tracking application with Excel 2007: Kickoff

Posted by on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006






The company I work for, Cogniview, offers customers various ways to purchase its products. A customer can use PayPal to purchase online, send a fax order, or send a purchase order by fax or e-mail. We have had an unusual amount of purchase orders lately. Everybody is happy when a PO comes in, but our […]






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The World’s Funniest Spreadsheet Movies

Posted by on Monday, October 16th, 2006






For those of you who think that spreadsheets are boring and that spreadsheet professionals are sad people who cry themselves to sleep, I give you the world’s funniest spreadsheet movies. 1. Watch out, heroin addicts, here comes the spreadsheet . . . 2. We took a poll on which of the characters in this movie […]






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Cogniview is now a certified partner of Microsoft

Posted by on Thursday, September 21st, 2006

The Gang with the Microsoft flag






I am pleased to announce that Cogniview has achieved the rank of Microsoft certified partner. We were always putting off becoming a certified partner because it seemed to be a big hassle. We were right about that. We had, however, an ace in the hole that I wasn’t aware of: you, the customers. Our customers […]