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PENS Retail Services, established in 2005, provides IT consulting, custom development, support, and ecommerce/CMS design to retailers and small business, saving them both time and money.

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What is GnuCash?

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, free-to-use, and available for all common platforms.

Now, the "free" part is good, but what's really great about GnuCash is that it's a viable replacement for Quicken.

Yes, that's right, finally there is a cross-platform, free, and feature packed alternative to...

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What is Thingamablog Made Simple?

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything....

Thingamablog Made Simple is a free, but copyrighted web tutorial that utilizes space-age learning technologies and little-known brainwashing techniques to show you how to transform your prosaic and pedantic blog about your cat into a more technically elaborate prosaic and pedantic...

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What is Google Sketchup?

Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling program designed for architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and hobby woodworkers like me. In addition to being a full-featured 3D CAD program, it also includes features allowing the user to place models in Google Earth. It was designed to be more intuitive, flexible, and easier to use than other 3D CAD...

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What is a good email boilerplate?

Email disclaimers added to the bottom of each external email sent from within your organization can help protect your company from liability. Consider the following scenario: an employee accidentally forwards a virus to a customer by email. The customer decides to sue your company for damages. If you add a disclaimer at the bottom of every external mail, saying that...

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How do I send and receive faxes FOR FREE?

I've been using FaxZero for years. When I recently bought and sold my principal residence, I sent all of my faxes with FaxZero. As the name implies, it costs nothing to send a fax using this service. With the FaxZero service, you have two choices:

Up to two 3-page free faxes per day; and FaxZero will...

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What is Jott?

Jott is a service that will convert your voice into email or a text message. You call a toll-free number and leave a voice message. Jott will translate your spoken words into text (amazingly well in fact,) and then forward the text to an email address or send a text message to a cell phone.

Here's...

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How can I pay you?

Wow, I honestly thought you'd never ask. But to answer your question, I'm just so thrilled that you're actually paying me, I'll accept almost anything - cash, cheque, goats, certain personal services...Canadian Tire money at par, or using the Paypal link below...

Make your payment using...
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What is Steph's Break Timer?

I have a sedentary job and lifestyle and so tend to spend many hours sitting in front of my PC. And my posture is usually horrible, so much so that after hours slumped in my chair, I can barely stand up. Knowing that a break timer is the simple answer to this simple...

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What is Twitter?

From the Twitter FAQ: "Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want instant mobile updates—for others, you can just check the web. Invite your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be."

So. Think...

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What is Flickrvision?

FlickrVision allows you to see Flickr images globally, as they are uploaded! Since I am one who never resorts to hyperbole I'll just say that this is incredibly super-awesome! What it does is show a map of the world and as each Flickr user uploads...

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