Recently, we had a client who started selling casual wear and was looking for a point of sale software. See the market prices shocked us as nothing was below a minimum of $3000. That amount of money won’t get you the hardware either, its just the software price. So when starting a new business, you want to keep your startup costs as low as possible and buying POS software doesn’t help. Point of Sale software is a real necessity for retailers and adds great benefits by making your accountants job easier, your job easier and stock management a breeze. So what should you do?

Well, we found a cheaper alternative that saves you $2900. Its called the PHP Point of Sale. PHP stands for a programming language and it contains lot of essential features that you’ll enjoy using. Here are some of those essential features…

Inventory Management – rack inventory, receiving, and suppliers with detailed, up-to-date information.

Analyse your Data – PHP Point of Sale offers a wide array of powerful reporting features that allow you to track your sales and customer information in real time.

Support – They offer excellent technical support. You will never be left stranded with our comprehensive online forum and one-on-one support.

Security – Their online hosted solution guarantees you’ll spend more time focusing on what matters. They take care of all your security and backup needs.

Options – PHP Point of Sale is customizable. Easily configure features to match your business needs.

Easy Installation – Their automated setup couldn’t be easier. Installation and updates are a breeze.

Check it out and let us know if you would like us to install and configure it for you. You can use this for small business as well as medium business with no problems at all.

When search engines index your website they look for keywords that are in abundance on your website. They match those keywords up with keywords mentioned in other websites such as directories and blogs. When those other directories and blogs point those particular keywords like “Web Design” to your website, it gives a lot more weightage. The more relevant keywords link to your website, the higher your website ranking gets for those keywords.

A website called Open Site Explorer assists you to do just that. It allows you to search for links pointing to your competitors website. If your competitor is listed on a particular directory or blog, chances are you can submit to your website to that directory or blog too (usually for free). This means you will get higher number of inbound links which come from relevant keywords for your business website. Try this technique today and let us know what you think of it.

Peview is a program commonly used for previewing PDF files on Mac OS X.  In addition to reading and making notes on PDFs, the program can also be used to reduce the file size of PDFs. I found it quite interesting today as I was trying to reduce the file of an ebook we recently did the typeface for. It was written by Chris Osborne and the title reads “The book of Music Making”…You can buy the book on her website Livelycat.com.

You usually end up having quite a large PDF file when you save it as PDF format directly from a word document. This was certainly the problem for us. We have created it from the Office suit of applications, so when it was published…We really couldn’t use it anywhere. It was too large for a E-book.

1) Open the PDF file that you want the size reduction for

2) Once it opens up, Click on “File” >> “Save As…”

3) There should be a small option box that should pop up…From the drop down list labelled “Quartz Filter” >> Select “Reduce File Size”

4) Hit the save button if you want the file replaced or rename the file and save it!

Your PDF file should be much smaller than what it was initially. I was pleasantly surprised when my 49 MB PDF file turned into a 2.6MB file.

On Windows,

1) Click on the “Start” button or the round button you find in latest windows

2) On the top-right hand, you’ll find a menu item labelled “Computer”. Right click on it and Select “properties” from the list (usually the last item on the list)

3) This should give you a brief information box highlight the type of system you are using and the memory space you have on your computer.

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These are series of posts that will help you speed up your PC. Every now and then, there are new articles that will be added which will provide you more tips and tricks for your home PC computer to do a good job.

By following these simple guidelines, your home PC computer should be running at its optimal state. Do note that these will take effect given that you have liberal amount of Hard disk space and generous Memory space left on your computer. For an average Home Computer with current software and technologies, You should atleast have 80GB hard drive space and 1GB memory with speed of anything above 2.0Ghz.

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