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When shopping, do you only look for the absolute cheapest items and products around? Don't confuse looking for a good deal with being cheap either. I love a good deal, but never want to be cheap about it. Great products or services are usually never the cheapest. There's also usually a reason for it. It may be that it cost more money to make the better product, it takes more time to make, or sometimes it could be a name that has a certain "status" or value to it.

It wasn't long ago that I remember pulling over to stop at the pay phone to call the number being displayed on my pager. Some teens may ask, "what's a pager?" It was a magical little box that someone would call the number to, put in their number, and it would beep/buzz to show you the number of the person trying to reach you. If they thought they were cool they might say hi with "07734", or just send you "8008". When you got the number, you could run around trying to find a phone to call that person back as they waited by the phone for you to call them. See, it was easy. Ask your parents, they had'em too. I guess my point is that the products that we use to communicate have come a long way. More people have phones today than had pagers back in the day. Do you ever meet someone that doesn't have a cell phone? I challenge you not to say, "you don't have a phone?".

These days you'll find QR Codes everywhere. QR Code stands for Quick Response Code. I won't get into the details of the QR Code, where it came from (yawn), and all of it's capabilities.  If you want to learn more about it, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

Technology isn't killing you, but your habits using it just might. I'm not talking about the obvious texting while driving. By the way, NEVER TEXT WHILE DRIVING! I am referring to my previous post "Use your computer to shed pounds". While that was more about the benefits of using a standing desk, this infographic by Medical Billing and Coding shows how the standing desk might not be such a crazy thing after all.

Have you ever tried to send a large file by email?  If it is a picture being sent to a loved one or those important late documents to your boss, then you know just how stressful it can be. When you attach that large file to your email and hit send, you may think that your computer is frozen because of having to wait so long for it to say "Send Complete". Finally when it does complete you have a sigh of relief until you check your incoming mail to see a message that reads "REJECTED" due to your internet service provider not allowing anything over 5 megabytes in size to be sent. With pictures, most of the time you could send 1 at a time, or reduce the size/quality of the pics to send without issue. Maybe you could do this with other documents also, but why when there are better options?

This is not anything new, but I am surprised how many people still don’t know about this one. I am going to help you get the most out of the real estate on your monitor and focus on what you want to see. Are search toolbars and favorites getting in your way browsing the web and being productive? Yes, if you have 3,4,and 5 toolbars at the top of Internet Explorer you should probably uninstall them.

If you would rather not, you can simply locate the F11 key on your keyboard and press it. Instantly you gained inches (on your monitor)!