Moneysaving Technology Tips

Moneysaving technology tips from Leslie Faughnan a technology journalist with the Sunday Business Post and Smart Company magazine;

1. There isn't just MS Office Alternatives: Ability, Corel WordPerfect Office, Lotus SmartSuite, OpenOffice, Sun StarOffice 8.0

2. Skype, Mind the Hype Don’t use it if you do business over the phone – quality not adequate yet. Alternatives: Skype, Jajah, Yahoo Voice

3. Cheaper Printing Throw out that inkjet Buy large toner cartridges Re-manufactured is OK Duplex & 2-up

4. Use dublin.ie… Instead of Gmail or Hotmail (don’t look professional) .... get a FREE Webmail account at www.Dublin.ie .... and FREE Web site hosting and Web design tools

5.Pay money by email PayPal MoneyBookers AnyPay PPPay GoPay

6.Send texts from your pc e-Txt TextMagic PC SMS – Outlook SMS Comunified

7.Use online backup Mamut.ie - Free 500MB Eircom Online Backup www.eircom.net/onlinebackup FileSecure www.iserve.ie Rock Solid www.rocksolidsystems.ie Savenet Solutions www.savenetsolutions.ie 24Seven Backup www.24sevenbackup.ie Mozy.com

8. Free Payroll Sage Quickpay Free for up to 3 employees www.sage.ie

9. Online applications This is the way of the future. Salesforce.com Mamut.ie Twinfield.ie Sage Online50 www.sage.ie

10. Free Security Software - Stinger (McAfee) - ZoneAlarm - AVG Antivirus - AVG Anti-Rootkit - Spyware Blaster - SpywareBot www.spywarebot.com - Spybot www.safernetworking.org - General site: www.download.com 11. Last tip: BT Consumer offering very attractive phone package at the moment.

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