LEARN THE I.T. TRICK AND TRADE!

Maybe because of the desire to earn additional bucks and the need to manage my regular business affairs more efficiently, I spend a whole lot of time exploring the internet.

These past weeks, I can say that I spent a hell lot of time in this undertaking primarily because it catches my interest as a person and as a businessman.

As a person, what first caught my interest and attention was the usage of blogs. I do love writing and this began when I first maintained a Bible Diary around five years ago. After learning the capabilities of blogs, I thought of also using them for my businesses.

As a businessman, I want to explore the power of the web. I also want the documents of my businesses available to me anytime and anywhere.

With these two main lines of interests, I have learned quite a new few tricks but I know, I still have to explore this vast world of information technology.

In doing so, I need to have a monitoring system where I can compile all my researches and discoveries.

Thus, "Learning the IT trick and trade" was born.

MANAGING MY FILES

It has been quite a while that I am studying how to maintain a back-up file on the internet in case my computer again becomes inoperative.

Available options I tried so far is to maintain a briefcase or an egroup but there seems to be a limit as to accepting large files such as my MS Access File or a Brochure with lots of pictures.

At the moment, I am converting my access file into spreadsheet before I can upload them to my egroup. For my brochures, I email them to my yahoo account that provides unlimitted storage.

Yesterday, I tried exploring on sites that offers storage. So far, I am yet to find one that will suit my needs. Of course, one of my first criteria in selecting a host is that it is for Free!

GOOGLE SPREADSHEET

I tried again this feature by creating another file titled "CGL - Investors Assurance". It runs rather slow and I find it time consuming to individually post data entries rather than using the Microsoft Excell. Also, I find its features not as easy and as extensive such as formatting cells. My objective is to keep track of my financial updates and reports directly on the web so that in case my computer runs into trouble again, I will not loose valuable files and documents regarding accounting matters.