Often, finding quality software and services that truly fills your needs is a challenging and daunting task. Here we showcase a number of products and services that we use, often on a daily basis. As a growing business ourselves, we don't have time to deal with things that don't help us become more effective.

Program: Handy Backup
Description: Handy Backup is an easy-to-use program designed for an automatic backup of your data to any type of storage media including CD-RW devices and remote FTP servers. Handy Backup is intended for personal and corporate users in a networking environment or on a single machine.
Our experience: We use Handy Backup to make daily backups on CDRW, syncronize files between machines, and also ftp backups to our server as well. Around May 2003 we had a motherboard and hard-drive failure, causing data loss due to our own limited backup proceedures. We had just started using Handy Backup a couple weeks before this happened. Most of what we needed was available on backup, but we discovered a few things we weren't backing up and a problem with our Outlook files. We were not using the Outlook plugin at the time - Outlook locks the files when open, so you can't access (backup) the files. If your Outlook files are important to you, make sure and use the Outlook plugin with Handy Backup!
More information is available here about this software package.

A short summary of features...
Outlook plugin - Special Handy Backup addon that will help you automatically find and backup all MS Outlook and Outlook Express data on your system including messages, news and address book.
Registry plugin - Special Handy Backup addon that will let you backup any registry keys just like you do with files and folders.
ICQ plugin - Special Handy Backup addon that will help you automatically find and backup all ICQ data on your system including contacts, message history, etc.
Backup to FTP server - You can use Handy Backup to store your data on a remote FTP server.
Backup to CD-RW - Handy Backup will let you use your CD-RW device to store backup on CDR and CDRW disks.
Synchronize Files and Folders - With Handy Backup you can easily keep all important files synchronized between servers, desktops, notebooks, LANs, ZIP disks, secondary hard disks, etc.
Backup solution for your business - Handy Backup helps you to protect your business from risks associated with loss of valuable data.

Description: PrintPal offers the best prices around for a wide variety of ink cartridges, and amazing customer service.
Our experience: I received an ink cartridge once that didn't quite want to print right, even after a number of cleaning cycles. They quickly sent me another one with a return envelope for the bad cartridge. If you're tired of paying $35 for ink, check out PrintPal immediately!
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Description: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX2004 is THE web authoring tool.
Our experience: We've been using Dreamweaver almost exclusively for our web development over the years. With exception to a few other small tools, Dreamweaver has provided the flexibility and tools required for great control over your site, and speedy development. An active community creating a variety of powerful plugins also helps expand it's abilities and ease of use. Check out Dreamweaver, and you'll find why it is considered THE web authoring tool.
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