How many times a day do you type your email address or physical address with your mobile device keyboard? Too many to recall? Well, here's a tech tip for you: user-created dictionary shortcuts on your mobile device. Save yourself a bit of time by adding frequently...
Author: Jesse Smith
Genius Scan
If you want to quickly and easily create a PDF using your phone camera, check out Genius Scan which is available for both Android and Apple. At Smart Dolphins, we use this app for capturing our credit card receipts before sending them to Mariola, our controller. She’s...
ParkVictoria
One of my favorite new apps is ParkVictoria which allows you to pay for Victoria parking spaces from your mobile phone. Within the app you’ll create an account and store a credit card. Then, when it’s time to park you just open the app and enter in your space number...
Outlook tips
Outlook tip #1 - Calendar sharing Calendar sharing is a great communication tool. Why share your Outlook calendar? Sharing your availability Scheduling appointments for others or vice versa Coordinating one or more individuals for meetings or service calls Outlook tip...
Pod Pointer – Outlook Autocomplete Entries
You know when you start typing an email address into the To box in Outlook and a list of recipients appears? Many people mistake those entries for people in their contact list, when in fact it is a list of remembered addresses that you have previously emailed. This...
Pod Pointer – Outlook Search Awesomeness
Outlook search has improved dramatically in recent years. By typing a few words into the Outlook search box, every email you’ve ever sent or received which contains any of the typed words will be retrieved for you in a matter of seconds. The problem is that those...
Backup – an investment, NOT an expense
Last week I called a doctor’s office of which I am not an existing patient and I booked an appointment for 9 am this morning. When I showed up they had no record of me. Apparently, they suffered a major computer crash a couple of days earlier and lost at least a...
Backup your data
Backup systems and car purchases; a little comparison Have you ever heard the saying “I just drive a car to get to get from point A to point B?” This is almost never true. The truth is that we factor all kinds of decisions into our vehicle purchases. For example,...
Setting IT expectations
I heard a great quote from a wise man (named Bob) a few months ago that really resonated with me. “We are not in the fixing problems business, we are in the setting expectations business”. Have you ever been excited about a company’s service simply because they called...
Multiple monitors?
Here at Smart Dolphins, it's not uncommon for one person to use both a workstation, a laptop and another monitor in different scenarios. The workstations are used in the office at our desks, while the laptops go onsite when visiting clients, in the boardroom during...