Solopreneurs and startups don’t have big budgets for software to manage their business. They need alternatives, that is why I created the Solopreneur Stack, a list of free apps to grow your new business.

Still looking for some last minute buys for your small business? Maybe you want to give something small with that generic photo-card to your employees? Here are some sensible tech items to consider.

If gamers have a specialized community for their computer building needs, then why can’t gig workers? Why can’t graphic designers, musicians, etc. have custom computers?

Pinterest is not small, but it also is not one of the bigger players out there. As such, small businesses are not drowned out. Even with few followers, a small business can still thrive because those followers are typically more engaged.

Ideally, technology should make our lives easier, not harder. If your tech is not doing that, you are missing the point. One way to make technology work for you is with a little app on your iPhone: the Shortcuts App

The iPhone is a great device from a great company. However, Apple likes to carve it’s own path when it comes to image standards. This is even more problematic for Windows users, so here are some workarounds for when images don’t work as intended.

Having worked in computers for over 20 years, I have developed a systematic way to address technical problems that work well in a large enterprise. Those same techniques can come in handy for a malfunctioning personal device like an iPhone, too.

Before starting your video-conference, here are some technical tips that you may not have considered yet, culled from my own experiences and from online sources.

Windows 10 is here, it is stable, and it is more secure than Windows 7. But what if you missed the free upgrade window? Does that mean you can’t upgrade for free anymore? Actually, you still can…

Think of the Station App as a single application that you open in the morning from which everything else can be accessed. We use it to bring all our social media apps into one screen, but it can do much more.

Before you decide on a single application - like a browser - across all the computers you use for your business, there are some important things to consider for managing these.

In this sixth article in the Free Computing for Solopreneurs? series, I explain the origins of free software and why it matters that it is really free to use & share.

This is the fourth article in our Free Computing for Solopreneurs? series. This is not a tutorial on building computers (there are many online sources for this), but more of a general overview in plain English terms that anyone can follow.

This is the third article in our Free Computing for Solopreneurs? series. I was asked to expand on the options for finding a free computer, so here is the result of my search.

Second article in our Free Computing for Solopreneurs? series. I set about to find a free computer. That was not as easy at first…

The first in the Free Computing for Solopreneurs? series. The Challenge of finding a free computer to insert into an existing small businesses with minimal impact to day to day operations.

The Moleskine Writing System is a way to electronically document your thoughts. It comes with an electronic pen with actual ink, and a real paper book! The cool part is that both the pen and the book are coded to a software application that records your pen strokes on the paper.

Computers have brought almost all forms of print up-close, but the problem is still there: the font is often too small. Now we need to lean so close to read that pixelated text that anyone seeing us wonders if we think it’s a place to climb into – no joke, I was asked this once. But the computer exists to make life easier with commands, and there is a very simple solution to our problem.

The Moleskine Writing System is a way to electronically document your thoughts. It comes with an electronic pen with actual ink, and a real paper book! The cool part is that both the pen and the book are coded to a software application that records your pen strokes on the paper.