Mark Meshulam

Tim Berners-Lee: A Tribute

It's hard to be impressed anymore. But when I learned of the phenomenal achievements of Tim Berners-Lee, I became not only impressed, but awestruck. Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. And what did you do today? The World ... Read >

Observing the Protocols: HTTP, WWW, URL and HTML

Many among us sail through our lives blissfully ignorant of the reason our web addresses start with the secret code "http//:" Increasingly we think it is superfluous because when we omit entering it into the address line of our browser, usually we arrive ... Read >

The Brain Drain

Am I the only one, or does it seem harder and harder to remember things? I remember long ago, somehow I made a barely-conscious decision to purge useless information from my brain. This was probably to make room for newer, more exciting information, su... Read >

Megapixels of Doom

There seems to be a file size disconnect between pictures routinely snapped by most digital cameras, and the desire of many amateur photographers to share their pics as email attachments or online. Photographically, most of us are using an elephant gun... Read >

Shortcuts and Hotkeys

Anyone who has been confronted with a screenful of overlapping windows can appreciate the need to execute the tasks from the keyboard rather than from the mouse. Our vote for most-needed keyboard shortcut is the one which clears all your open windows t... Read >

The Importance of Filenames

Unless you place your faith in internal search engine software or document databases to track your work, consider a relatively low-tech enhancement to your work methods. I promise it will pay big dividends. Think about how you name your files and folde... Read >

Using FTP to Send Large Files

It was inevitable that our work files would mushroom to sizes far beyond restrictions imposed by most email services. The reason can be summarized in one word: graphics. Whether you want to send photos, CADD (computer aided drafting & design) files or ... Read >

Clipboard and Screen Capture

Many lack a clear understanding of the clipboard function built into Windows(tm) operating systems. Basically, the clipboard is a temporary storage area where you can save and retrieve data. The most well-known example would be when you drag the cur... Read >

Managing with Authority and Democracy

Copyright 2005 Poingo.com If you watch closely, you will eventually notice that people who manage the work of others tend to fit into one of two categories: authoritarians or democrats. The authoritarians, as you would expect, manage by telling othe... Read >

10 Steps Toward Better Business Communication

Ultimately, no matter how high-tech your business tools, development and implementation of new initiatives will depend upon effective, productive communication between real live people. Why do some business meetings result in boredom and lack of focus,... Read >