Many cameras today take Super High Quality or High Definition pictures. This is great for making posters, but not so good when you want to take a picture for a social profile. Most of us have received a great picture taken by a friend that is either too high definition or the picture orientation is rotated by 90 degrees. This post is a tutorial using Microsoft Office Picture Manager to resolve some common photo issues so you can use your photos with Social Networks like Facebook, LinkedIn.

» Read more: Tutorial: Convert Hi-Def photo for Social Network

What’s on your USB drive?  Many people have their entire life on their USB drives – contracts, proposals, resume.  What would happen if your USB drive was destroyed or got into the wrong hands?  Many times each day we take our technology for granted. 

That used to be the case with me until recently when I lost mine without knowing it.  Many USB drives have a little ring that attaches to your keyring.  It gives everybody a false sense of security.  It will stay on your keyring right?  Unfortunately, the stock ring they include with the Cruzer is not made to stand up to the punishment most people dish out when they handle their keys.

How do I know?  The other day, I discovered my USB drive sitting on the ground next to my car.  It had to have been sitting there for at least 24 hours.  I’m lucky it was only mangled a little bit. » Read more: How to guard your data

You’ve created a LinkedIn profile.  It’s looking pretty good you think, so you decide to pass on the profile to a friend for review.  They tell you, they didn’t find it.  Or it’s not displaying any information.  What do you do?

Later in this post, I present two common problems that most people might encounter while sharing their LinkedIn profile address with someone else or even worse put it on a business card before confirming it works correctly. » Read more: How-to: Fix your LinkedIn profile visibility

A while back, when applying online for a job. I had to submit digitized career documentation.  It was all online, No paper anything.  Not only did they want the documents in digital format, they wanted them in pdf format.  At the time, I didn’t know of any solutions to create the files in pdf format.  I needed something quick and easy, so I ended up purchasing a pdf printer driver called Win2PDF.  Since then, I have discovered two free options for converting your digitized documents to pdf.

» Read more: How to: Create pdf files for FREE from digitized images and Word docs

You have paper letter of recommendation.  You or your techie friend used a scanner or one of those multi-function printer/FAX/Copier/Scanner machines to scan the dcoument to a jpeg file on your USB Flash drive.  You wanted to upload the image file to Google Docs, so you go through the steps to upload the file and press the upload button.  Google Docs churns for a little while then throws up a message that your file is too big.  What went wrong & how can you fix it? » Read more: How to: Get a digitized image on Google Docs

We’ve been talking about online storage as a place to store important documents.  Did you know that you can actually publish your GoogleDocs so they’ll be public.  In this post, I’m going to cover the steps to get your résumé uploaded to GoogleDocs, then publish it.
» Read more: How to: Publish your resumé using Google Docs