Category Archives: Tech Tips

How to Recover a Hacked Gmail Account

Recently a client called and left a pan­icked voice­mail telling me some­one in South Africa was send­ing email from their Gmail account and ask­ing for $2000 cash from all their friends. I told them it sounded like their Gmail account was cracked and we needed to move quickly. It was and we did. Here’s what we did: Imme­di­ately went to…

Don’t Fall for this Latest Email Scam

There’s a new scam that claims the IRS owes you a refund. It looks fairly offi­cial. I’ve posted a link to the arti­cle and rec­om­mend famil­iar­iz­ing your­self with it. Click to read the article …

Getting Things Done is Getting Things Done!

I’ve been going through it. I’m plan­ning on doing the entire 16 hour trans­for­ma­tion about 10 days from today and I can’t wait. There are some pod­casts that really make it even eas­ier to wrap your head around how this works and what you can expect—also hints and exam­ples. Mer­lin Mann’s 43 Fold­ers also cov­ers Getting…

Google Analytics

If you haven’t started using this for review­ing your web site’s stats (are you crazy?!?), you should. Imme­di­ately. It used to be called Urchin and cost a small for­tune. Now it’s free so there’s no excuse to be suf­fer­ing along with that old AWstats any­more. Google Analytics