January, 2009 | Small Business Technology

2009-01-28

Free Fonts Licensed For Commercial Use

Font Squirrel is collecting free fonts which you can use in your business and for commercial print work.
On other free font sites you always have to read the font license agreements after downloading to make sure they are not just free for personal use, but also for business use, but not on this site.

This is what they have to say:

Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We’ve done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. Please help us by submitting your own free fonts or showing us where to find more. Thanks and enjoy!

So, head over there for your free fonts and help them find more.

2009-01-21

10 Microsoft Outlook Annoyances

I just heard of an article over at PC World that can help making working with Microsoft Outlook less painful than it can be at times.
Head over to PC World and have a look at the article. Some things I knew, some were new to me, but if you haven’t done any tweaking (lately) in your Outlook setup, it could provide useful to you.

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2009-01-18

“Out of Memory” error message when printing in Works 7, 2003 and 2004

When trying to preview and print in Microsoft Works 7, I just got the dreaded “Out of Memory” error message. I am really upset about it because I only use Works two or three times a year and keep forgetting about this issue when printing spreadsheets and databases; you may be upset because you have to deal with it more frequently.
If you deal with it more frequently, you know the issue and have probably a work-around – or dealt with it by buying a new version of Works. If you don’t – here’s the problem and the solution:

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2009-01-07

Startup Delayer Speeds Up Windows Startup

Recently, I came across Startup Delayer by r2 Studios, which is a great startup manager.
Before starting with Windows Vista, I used to use Mike Lin’s Startup Control Panel to manage which programs I wanted to have started on boot and which ones to ignore.
On his recommendation, once I switched to Vista, I used the Vista built-in function:
“Windows Vista, after all these years, finally has a very good startup manager built-in; go to Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools, and then click on Manage Startup Programs on the left.”
I may fully switch to Startup Delayer now though, which not only allows me to disable some items, but to make others wait a bit before starting up.

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