Read This If You Send YouTube Video Links To Clients

Here is another interesting blog entry from our friend Dr Marc Dussault.

Have you ever worried about sending someone to a YouTube video and wishing you could get them to start viewing it at a pre-set point so they get the message you want them to get right off the bat and not have to ‘wait’ for it?

Well guess what? You can do just that with this little-known YouTube Tip.

You can specify the minutes and seconds of the start time like this:
add #t=3m03s to the end of the URL to start at 3 minutes and 3 seconds into it, so the entire URL will look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5705zVMSEqEI#t=3m03s

Another example: add #t=5m58s to the end of the video URL to start playback at 5 minutes 58 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5705zVMSEqE#t=5m58s

How simple is that?
People’s attention spans are getting shorter and shorter - people will appreciate it if you queue up your YouTube videos for them in advance… Especially if they’ve never seen that before!

If you haven't visited Marc's blog yet, click here to do so.

3 steps to making your life easier with Windows shortcuts

It is a fact that we spend hours in front of our computer screens everyday, often typing emails, writing word documents and working on excel spreadsheets. These programs are much more user friendly than we think but we often have no idea of the sort of things they can do.

If you want to be make your work easier and save lot of time, I encourage you to follow these 3 simple steps for fast results:
1. google "word shortcuts" or "excel shortcuts" or whatever it is you are looking for and spend a few minutes actually reading some of the results
2. write down on a post it note some of those shortcuts that you know will save you a lot of time in your everyday work
3. place the post it note on your computer screen for a week

After a week of using that shortcut you will learn it and you can throw the post it note away but your productivity and speed in preparing documents will improve

Here are a few useful shortcuts that you may not been aware of:

Get back to where you were
If you are like me and often change between several word documents that you are working on and you don’t remember where exactly you left off, the Shift+F5 combination will save you quite a bit of time. Hit both keys at the same time and Word will automatically place your cursor to where you last left off.

Use the built-in thesaurus
The Shift+F7 combination will look up a highlighted word in the thesaurus sidebar in Microsoft Word.

Insert the Date, Page or Time
The Alt+Shift+D combination will enter the date quickly into a document, and the same applies for entering Page numbers (Alt+Shift+P) and entering the Time (Alt+Shift+T)

Copy, Cut and Paste
If you are copying, cutting and pasting manually you will love to know that simply by using Ctrl+C (to copy), Ctrl+X (to cut) and Ctrl+P (to paste), you will make this action very fast and very easy. This shortcut for example, is a must!

We often provide our clients with shortcuts for the use of all their staff - to increase productivity and as a form of staff development. Contact us if you would like to get your hands on shortcuts for the product you are using.

What should I expect from my IT provider?

What should I expect from my IT provider? That's a great question that someone asked us recently so we thought we'd briefly answer it here.

Your IT provider should make your life easier in two ways.

Firstly we must be able to solve your day to day issues - so when you call us with something that is frustrating you, like something is not working for example, we must be able to get you up and running, as 'down-time' is often 'no money time'. We must care about your business as we do about ours, so when a call comes in it is to be dealt with as a matter of priority to reduce an impact to your business.

Secondly we must plan for your future. Your business is not static; hopefully it is growing and evolving month by month. This means that the IT system you have in place today has to be able to support your business in the future, or become a pivotal part in the development of your business. We have grown with over 100 small businesses and are experts at planning for your future.

Of course there are numerous other characteristics you expect from all your suppliers such as Trust, Experience, Service, a strong Relationship and Timely and Responsive Support.

The benefits you gain by dealing with a reputable and professional IT company like B Technologies include:
- Increased productivity
- Reduced downtime
- Increased information security
- Reduced hardware and software costs
- Benefits of our expertise and experience in solving problems
- Increased customer satisfaction
- Access to specialised skills

Our website contains information on our truly complete range of services for your business or home.

Click here to read testimonials from some of our satisfied customers that really understand what a professional IT service means to their business.

How to send large files over the internet Part 2

A colleague has sent us another link to send large files over the internet, where using the free feature, you can upload 500mb files with ease to share with others. (Read Part 1 of this post to get the details of how useful this tool really is.)

The site is www.megaupload.com and we have already tested it and it works great.

So a great big thanks to Sam Kritsotakis from Eskae Jewellery for sending us his link. You can find out more about his fantastic jewellery range and related services by visiting his website www.EskaeJeweller.com

We invite you to visit our website at www.BTechnologies.com

A very entertaining video of the 1st ever help desk

This video is well worth your 2.5 minutes. It is very funny and we all need a good laugh now and again, so check it out.



We invite you to visit our website at www.BTechnologies.com

Free Anti-Virus and Spyware protection for Home use

In this day and age with all the threats posed by connecting your PC or laptop to the Internet, you can not afford not to have up to date Anti-Virus and Spyware protection.

There are many products available on the market but a great free tool that offers the basic level of protection that you are looking for for a home setting is AVG's free product which you can download from their own site.

In their own words this product has more than 2 million active users in Australia and over 80 million users worldwide, making AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition the best and most popular FREE protection currently available.

If you decide to download and use this product for your home use, make sure you regularly download the updates that are available or set the program to download them automatically for you, and also you should run a full system scan with the AVG program at least once a month, but if you are doing a lot of internet searches, you will probably want to perform the scan more frequently.

We invite you to visit our website at www.BTechnologies.com

How to send large files over the internet

As a very active IT company we come across many great links to fantastic online services that you probably want to store somewhere for when you need it in the future.

Today's website is http://www.yousendit.com/ and the service they provide is free and very handy. Let’s say you want to send a video to a colleague or friend but it’s 100 MB (BIG!) you can’t send it in an email but you can easily get it to them via this service. You can also send up to 2 GBs worth of data with the paid service.

All you have to do is sign up for a free account (with a 100 MB upload limit) which take a few minutes and then you can upload the video to their server. Once this is done you set up log in details for your colleague or friend so they will be able to access the file, and simply email these to them. Once they have received these details they can log in and download the file straight from the web.

This is a great service that we recommend to our clients all the time, if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask. For bigger files another solution is explained below.

Also if you know of any great services like this on the internet, let us know and when I post it on here, I will happily mention you and your website as the contributor.

For a completely free solution up to 1GB:

1. Create a free gmail account (google mail account)

2. You can't send big files but you can store up to 1GB worth of stuff

3. Compose a message and attach the big file (up to 1GB), but DON'T SEND IT

4. Send the Gmail log in details to whoever you want to be able to access the file. They can log in to Gmail with the account details you send them, and they can access the email with the attachment that you prepared so they are able to download the file for themselves

We invite you to visit our website at http://www.BTechnologies.com/

B Technologies on Dr Marc Dussault's blog

Recently B Technologies got a mention on the blog of Dr Marc Dussault, THE exponential marketing strategist in Australia.

Click on the link below to visit his blog and to find out more about Marc who we consider as one the best things to happen to our business.

But that's not all, you may learn something AND be entertained and amazed by a great 3 minute video.

P.S. you will also find a reference to B Technologies on this blog entry !

http://www.empowernetinternetmastery.com.au/blog/youtube-the-best-free-tool-to-decrease-your-sales-cycle/

We invite you to visit our website at www.BTechnologies.com

Top 20 sites on the Internet

Here is a very interesting list of the Top 20 sites used by all internet users in 2008. Just think about what this could mean for your business? What do they offer that attracts such large number of users? And how do they keep them coming back? - Answers we can help you with.

So here they are as of July 2008:

No. 20 Craigslist
Unique Visitors: 30,210,000Average Time Per Visit: 1:13:21Rank in July 2005: No. 131
No. 19 Real Network
Unique Visitors: 32,034,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:34:01Rank in July 2005: No. 9
No. 18 Glam Media
Unique Visitors: 32,573,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:14:15Rank in July 2005: N/A
No. 17 CNN Digital Network
Unique Visitors: 32,977,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:37:32Rank in July 2005: No. 13
No. 16 Facebook
Unique Visitors: 34,362,000Average Time Per Visit: 1:29:39Rank in July 2005: No. 236
No. 15 Weather Channel
Unique Visitors: 35,949,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:35:16Rank in July 2005: No. 10
No. 14 About.com
Unique Visitors: 38,477,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:04:58Rank in July 2005: No. 14
No. 13 Ask Search Network
Unique Visitors: 40,182,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:19:19Rank in July 2005: N/A
No. 12 Blogger
Unique Visitors: 40,825,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:11:56Rank in July 2005: No. 35
No. 11 Amazon
Unique Visitors: 45,144,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:25:49Rank in July 2005: No. 8
No. 10 Apple
Unique Visitors: 50,694,000Average Time Per Visit: 1:12:10Rank in July 2005: No. 11
No. 9 Wikipedia
Unique Visitors: 51,786,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:20:49Rank in July 2005: No. 57
No. 8 eBay
Unique Visitors: 56,111,000Average Time Per Visit: 1:49:30Rank in July 2005: No. 6
No. 7 Fox Interactive Media
Unique Visitors: 70,103,000Average Time Per Visit: 2:06:53Rank in July 2005: N/A
No. 6 YouTube
Unique Visitors: 74,809,000Average Time Per Visit: 1:02:57Rank in July 2005: N/A
No. 5 AOL Media Network
Unique Visitors: 91,776,000Average Time Per Visit: 3:40:40Rank in July 2005: No. 5
No. 4 Microsoft
Unique Visitors: 92,318,000Average Time Per Visit: 0:38:01Rank in July 2005: No. 2
No. 3 MSN/Windows
Unique Visitors: 99,512,000Average Time Per Visit: 2:12:36Rank in July 2005: No. 3
No. 2 Yahoo!
Unique Visitors: 116,178,000Average Time Per Visit: 3:33:00Rank in July 2005: No. 1
No. 1 Google
Unique Visitors: 123,161,000Average Time Per Visit: 1:18:24Rank in July 2005: No. 4

We invite you to visit our website at www.BTechnologies.com

Domain Name Registration Tips - What You Should Know

Three things you should know about domain name registrations.

#1
if you have good ideas in your head i.e. an internet business – you should think about good domain names and register them. you can go to
http://www.melbourneit.com.au/
this is the site we use to look up if a domain name is available. You should always look at getting the .com but can ALSO get the .com.au (see below).

There are a lot of versions of domain names available now and .net and .biz will work too but really .com is obviously the best to choose. If you really wanted to you could get makemoremoneyonline.net and as long as people are directed to your website via links but .com and .com.au in Australia are preferred.

Once you have found what you want, you go to http://www.godaddy.com/ and register it for around $10/yr. You can register for one year initially as they always have deals where they will let you know when they have specials such as domain renewals at 20% off, so and you can go and extend it then. (They are amazing at trying to get more money out of you – you don’t need any of their special registrations, protection etc).

If you want to register an Australian domain name (.com.au), you can't do that on GoDaddy so for that you should go to http://www.crazydomains.com.au/

#2
You should all own your own name! i.e. http://www.johnsmith.com/ you never know when you will need it, you certainly don’t want someone else having it.

Let us know if you need some help, contact us through our website

Welcome

Welcome to our the official B Technologies log!

Come back often as we will make sure to keep providing you with useful and entertaining items. We also welcome your feedback so feel free to drop us a line.

Daniel
B Technologies
www.BTechnologies.com