Jul 23

Scheduling your tweets is a semi-contentious subject for some who are very active on Twitter. Some say you should be present when you tweet; no scheduling. Others know you can’t be on Twitter constantly or you won’t get anything else done. This post is to help those who know that automation tools make it possible to leverage Twitter and still grow a small business. Consider one of these eight tools — they just might change your life!

1. Hootsuite is probably one of the best known scheduling tools. Its closest competitor, Tweetdeck, was acquired by Twitter recently. With Hootsuite, you can shorten links, save drafts and schedule your tweets from a simple Web dashboard. Free v

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Tags: Scheduling, Scheduling Tools

Jul 22
Web hosting can be expensive, especially for high-traffic websites that need guaranteed uptime. Cheap website hosting companies are certainly easy to find, but few can offer reliable, hassle-free service. Here are a few things to keep in mind when looking for an inexpensive yet dependable web hosting provider.

Know Your Charges
Most web hosting companies advertise their basic rates right on their websites, but posted rates can be misleading. 

Carefully read web hosting contracts to try to find extra fees that could end up affecting the quality of service or the overall monthly costs of a hosting provider.

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Tags: Cheap Web Hosting

Jul 22

JAMES R.MCKINNEY

Jim McKinney / Special to The Courier & Press Steve Fowler, who started working at Roys Shoe Repair Service in 1976 when he was a 15-year-old sophomore in high school, offers shoe shines in about 10 minutes.

For 51 years in a 650-square-foot storeroom — a space not much larger than a two-car garage — Roy’s Shoe Repair Service has mended the best and worst of soles. Located in Ross Shopping Center at 1016 S. Boe

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Tags: Roys, Steve Fowler

Jul 21

It may be the biggest float ever seen on the London market, but Glencore’s disappointing start to life as a listed company continued yesterday after the commodities trader dipped once again.

The group begins unconditional trading today, and is set to enter the blue-chip index after the session has closed, yet it has been trading on the grey market since Thursday following a prolonged build-up.

Despite its issue price of 530p being seen by some as conservative, Glencore failed to move upwards on its first day and was then pegged back 6p to 524p last Friday, before last night closing 10p worse off at 514p.

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Tags: Again, Again Commodities

Jul 21

Savings Accounts and Money Market Rates provided by 21 July 2011 A growing number of businesses and individuals are paying more attention to the security of their private information. Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba has introduced a new hard drive it believes offers a better solution than many traditional data security tools, according to ZDNet Asia.

Toshibas Self-Encrypting Drives use an authentication process embedded in the hard drive itself, which changes its encryption and activates every time the device is turned on. Full Post…

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