Kevin Cullis: How to Start a Business Mac Version

Here’s a short list of fonts on your Mac that you can use for Christmas, Chanukah, or other Holiday announcements.

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When you’re on the road or travelling you need to take notes on your iPhone. There are usually three ways: taking notes on the iPhone Notes application, take a Voice Memos audio recording (see my previous blog posts, Dictate on an iPhone, note taking and syncing with iTunes, or taking Voice Memos on an iPhone), or if you have an app that you can do videos, check out Apple’s compare phones web site to see what video differences there are between the 3GS, 4, and 4S.

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Wow, been really two weeks since I last blogged.

Been REALLY busy lately with a few new projects, so my blogging is behind. I’ve also changed how often I’ll blog my content and some of my blogging is moving in another direction. Having said that, here’s my latest post.

My wife is in real estate and her real estate office is moving toward digitizing their real estate paperwork and files. Some offices are still in the “paper world” and won’t use technology, or at least, may just have a fax as their main move toward technology. So until offices get on board with standardizing their digital processes, there’s this gap between the technology have and have nots.

Current Process

Sending a fax to my wife’s office creates a fax and sends it by email as a PDF to her email Inbox. Because her office is digitizing the files, she gets any number of faxes and PDF files that have multiple documents in each PDF file that need to be split out for her to upload to their document server, i.e. separate out each document so you know if all of the required documents are there to process. It’s hard to determine this when the PDF is one long file.

While her office fax internal processes are better than most offices, it’s still a pain for her to “manually” separate each one. Until I found a simpler process, she use to have to reprint out each PDF document, scan each document separately into their system, then send each document so that each could be uploaded into their document server.

Not any more!

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As a startup entrepreneur you get lists of name in Excel spreadsheets and in most cases there is one column with the first name and a column for the last name, but on occasion both names are in the same column. Or you get the City, State, and Zip in the same column and can cause headaches with having to sort this data.

Along comes MS Excel 2008 which has a data trick that helps clear up your list of names or any list for that matter. Let’s take a look at how we can do this.

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OK, here’s my first ever list of new tools that nearly every startup entrepreneur will use, including using your Mac. My intention for this page is to highlight some of the tools that might be of benefit to others, not just Mac specific, but startup entrepreneur using a Mac specific.

So here goes my first three solutions for startups:

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Apple has been granted a new patent for it’s iWork Numbers application. You might want to take a look at it.

It relates to when you want to copy data into a new chart that the new data is associated with the old data into a new data set.

That’s business.

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• Apple nabs 16 more patents for multi-touch, solar power, iWork (zdnet.com)
• Apple nabs more patents for multitouch, iWork (news.cnet.com)

As an startup entrepreneur you always look to keep low or no costs to prolong using your capital. During a recent teleseminar I was introduced to Camtasia software. It is billed as the one stop shop for screen capturing and recording your audio all in the same application. But as I said above, entrepreneurs are always looking to save money, and time, and if you can, both money and time. So what is an entrepreneur to do without spending any money?

Well, here’s my answer.

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