Funding and mentors help aboriginal youth start ups
Aboriginal youth in Canada face significant barriers to business, but several initiatives assist and inspire them with the guidance and funds they need to succeed as entrepreneurs.
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Komando's Q & A: Download amortization templates
Question: I'm financing property for friends. Some are paying extra each month on the principal. So, I need help calculating the principal reduction. Is there a program that can do this for me?
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Tips to writing successful resumes
The prospect of finding a job or internship is stressful enough for most students. "What do I actually want to do?" is the perennial question, and answers can be hard to come by. Adding to the pressure is the need to create a cover letter and resume that convinces employers to call back.
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Xenocode Releases Major Update of Virtual Application Studio
Xenocode, the leader in application virtualization technology, today announced the immediate availability of the 2009 edition of Xenocode Virtual Application Studio. The Virtual Application Studio authoring environment allows systems administrators and software developers to easily virtualize existing Windows-based applications for instant deployment using Xenocode.
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The Match Game
When evaluating live chat vendors, real-time reporting might not be first on most retailers’ list of must-have features. But it’s important for online pet supplies retailer Drs. Foster and Smith.
http://www.internetreta...
Business Assessment Service use complexity-based rating.
Complexity-Online service offers downloadable MS-Excel templates for online rating/evaluation of banks' and corporations' business processes parameters. Providing objective rating information to corporations and investors worldwide, complexity-based rating is automatic and based on model-free techniques. Assessment of business is based on measure of company's complexity, specifically difference ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
PagePlus SE can be a useful desktop publishing program. Its features include a wide range of preset document layouts, around 500 different free templates.
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WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers' best friend
While still in high school in Texas, Matt Mullenweg created blogging software he hoped would be easier and prettier to use. Less than six years later, Mullenweg's WordPress has become the No. 2 blogging platform behind Google's Blogger, signing up 10,000 new bloggers daily.
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Sierra Sun Class Calendar
American Red Cross Baby-sitter's Training: Feb. 7, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., D.W. Reynold's nonprofit Community Center.
http://www.sierrasun.co...
Website Waffling?
By Becky Coffey, Harbor News Senior Staff Writer: WESTBROOK: Website waffling and flawed decision-making were the reasons that an ad hoc committee recommended the town pay for services it now gets for free, according to volunteer town webmaster Richard Holton. He challenged the committee’s recommendation after it told the Economic Development Commission in its presentation that the town ...
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The Art of Delegating Tasks to a Virtual Assistant
“It’s all hype. Trust me, I gave it a shot. I worked with a virtual assistant and it was a complete waste of time. Wouldn’t do it again.” This is what a friend of mine said when I was thinking about hiring a virtual assistant (VA) almost a year ago.
http://www.salon.com/te...
Apple iWork '09
Intuitive interface design and easy access to useful features make iWork the best office suite choice on the Mac. Though it lacks some of Microsoft Office's advanced options, iWork '09 is an emerging powerhouse in its own right.
http://www.zdnet.com.au...
How to set up web development platform?
BANGALORE, INDIA: Developing a web application on Windows using its tools is a lot simpler than we think it could be. .NET, Visual Studio etc. all help in increasing the productivity of a developer and put you on the right track quickly.
http://www.ciol.com/Dev...
High-tech tools make wedding planning easier
I got married recently, and as anyone who has planned a wedding knows, it's a ton of work, most of which was done by my wife. But I wasn't a total deadbeat. I gravitated toward tasks that could be accomplished by using technology.
http://www.normantransc...