VirtualConnections Blog

  • MAC Tip of the Month: iPhone App – CardStar
  • MyCardstar.com – Leave those bulky plastic “reward cards” and “club cards” at home! This CardStar App lets you easily store, manage and quickly retrieve your reward, club, and loyalty cards on your smart phone, where they [...]

  • The Sassy Ladies Blog Talk Radio Show Link
  • I had the pleasure of being interviewed on The Sassy Ladies’ Blog Talk Radio Show this week. I was interviewed by Wendy Hanson, one of The Sassy Ladies’ and the subject of the show was on the Benefits of Partnering With a Virtual Assistant. By the way, Wendy has been a client of mine since [...]

  • Twitter Resource: Tweetmeme.com
  • Tweetmeme.com is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter and determines which links are popular. Tweetmeme categorizes these links into categories, subcategories and channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you’re interested in. It is also easy for you to subscribe to each category and the most [...]

  • MAC Tip of the Month: Emailing a PDF
  • You prepared a proposal and you were asked to email a pdf right away. In MAC OS X you can create and send a pdf in seconds.

    Choose Print from the File menu
    Click the drop-down PDF menu and choose Mail PDF
    Enter a subject, an email address and click Send

  • Website of the Month: Formatit.com
  • Formatit.com is an email formatting and text formatting tool. You will be able to format text to a specified column width while preserving the original paragraph endings.
    Simply write your article in Word or whatever word processing software you use, copy and paste into the box at formatit.com, select the number of characters for your column [...]

  • MS Word Tip: Putting Document Names in Headers or Footers
  • You found a document that you printed some time ago and need to update with some new resources. You have spent half an hour trying to find it on your computer because you can’t remember what you named the file.
    Follow these steps to add the document name to either the header or footer of a [...]

  • The Cancer Concern Center 13th Annual Dinner Dance Fundraiser
  • The Cancer Concern Center is a small non-profit organization that draws cancer survivors from Southern Monmouth and Northern Ocean Counties to its comfortable home in Point Pleasant Beach.
    Despite operating on a shoestring budget with a volunteer staff, the Cancer Concern Center offers free programs to local cancer survivors.
    On May 22, the Cancer Concern Center will [...]

  • Twitter Resource: Search.Twitter
  • Try to spend some time using www.Search.Twitter.com. This is an incredible tool that allows you to find virtually anything and anyone. You can search for individuals, keywords, locations, phrases, and more. If you want a more precise search, you can search by zip code, city and state as well.
    Keeping up with interesting news and people [...]