legal & business document templates

Simply-docs, online service for legal & business document templates. Providing over 850 documents + updates and additions.

• contracting or corresponding with customers & suppliers - Trading folder
• starting up, raising finance and company secretarial duties - Corporate folder
• employing, managing and dismissing staff - Employment folder
• managing & monitoring health & safety issues - Health & Safety folder

There is also a section with free documents: 8 free Trading documents, 9 Corporate, 10 Employment, 8 Health & Safety, and huge amounts of different kinds of Companies House documents and Insolvency documents.

Subscription fees to Simply-docs for one year's unlimited access:

• Trading - £35.00
• Corporate - £35.00
• Employment - £35.00
• Health & Safety - £35.00
• All Document Folders - £95.00

bizhelp24, have Bizstart24, which is an easy to use business administration package that can be used instantly by just about everyone currently running a small business or just starting a new business.

BizStart24 is a full set of business letters and forms - complete with full content, calculations and full formatting options.

It offers instant access to over 40 fully interactive business letter and forms including: overdue letters, accounts and general small business administration.

And it's FREE to download. I downloaded a version of it a few years back, but am considering getting this updated version instead.

Browser Book

VisiBone has got some interesting products!

Colour Reference Hexagon Mouse Pad!

You gotta love this one! From Visibone

Internet-security, common sense

An article titled "How Hackers Gain Control of Your Computer", featured on deskdemon.com today, has these suggestions of how to avoid trouble:

1. Make sure you receive the latest Window's updates.

2. Install a good firewall.

3. Install a 'spyware' removal tool and keep it up to date. Scan at least once a week and after being on line for a long time.

4. Install an anti-virus program and keep it up to date. Carry out virus scans at least once a week.

5. Use a Spam Filter to stop dangerous email.

Further actions you can take:

* Don't open suspicious emails, especially if they have attachments

* Be careful downloading free software. Only download from reputable sites like CNet's 'download.com.'

* Switch off your broadband connection if you are away from your computer for a long period of time. Switch your computer and broadband connection off at night. This is especially relevant for wireless network users.

The article is written by Richard Rogers, who is an owner of a number of computer related sites.

Avoiding viruses and Spyware is actually not so difficult. All you need is to use some common sense. When things sound too good to be true, they often are, listen to your intuition! And if you really want a certain thing, read the contract thouroughly! Many use the term Adware instead of Spyware, but they are essentially the same thing, programs serving you unwanted ads, either by spying on your net-behaviour to see what your interests are or just throwing pop-ups on you.
If you sign up on dating-sites, they often send you pop-ups with "extreme adult-material". Not immediately, but after some weeks or months (so you won't understand where they come from).
With e-mail, use spam or junk filters, and don't open any attachments from unknown senders or that look suspicious. Virus scan any attachments you decide to open.

To clean a computer from malicious wares: Go through the programs in your Add/Remove list. If they don't show in the Add/Remove, do a search on the name of a known pop-up sender (look at the addresses of the pop-ups you are receiving), and try deleting them from there. If they are irremovable, then they can be removed with some good program (like NoAdware or an Anti-virus program).
Discard cookies every now and then, and delete temporary files (in Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Options, Delete Cookies and Delete Files) from the browser cache.
Do a Disk Cleanup (Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools). If your system is slow, due to a lot of saving and deleting, this is where you find the Defragmenter too: if it says a defrag is needed, close all other programs and let it run through the night.

Get some sleep!

HI there, all you nightowls! The bad thing with workaholics, is that when they don't see through to get enough sleep, it'll all backfire! You get cranky and moody, and the ones you least want to hurt get to see the worst of you!

My advice to all those overworked business entrepreneurs is to invest some of their money in their health, and outsource the time consuming parts of their businesses, that can be made by someone else. It'll actually SAVE you money in the long run, because time is money, and nothing can replace good health. Also, an important part of recovering from burnout is to acknowledge when to seek help and delegate some of the burden to others.

I am at your service whenever you need me, but if you can't get a hold of me... it's my time to get some sleep!

Nighty night.

Odd wishlist!

This is a wishlist of things I want to learn. How much of it do you think I'll master this year? LOL!

Programming

ASP, BASIC, C & C++, CGI-SCRIPT, CSS, DHTML, JAVA, JAVA-SCRIPT, JSP, LOTUS-SCRIPT, NET, PERL, PERL-SCRIPT, PHP (this one shouldn't take too long), QBASIC, RPG, SQL, VISUAL BASIC, WML, XML

Computer program

MS ACCESS, The LOTUS-Suite, and there's always more to learn in: MS OFFICE, OpenOffice.org, MS WORKS...

Graphics

COREL DRAW, FLASH, MGI PHOTOSUITE (This one suites my immediate needs, but being a former photoshop-user, it's not what I'd hope for...), NOKIA PC-SUITE (haven't checked it out properly yet), do you know any good (really good!) and inexpensive graphics program that you would recommend?

Things I can/know but need refining regularly:

TYPINGSPEED, SEARCH ENGINE USE (INTERNET RESEARCH), BOOK KEEPING, MARKETING, MS O, OO.org, WORKS, TRANSLATING (of course, who translates without a dictionary? Check my favourite site to the left, yourdictionary.com), HTML, WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM, SEO.

And I want to take the DRIVING LICENSE (you know, to drive a car, not ECDL)... oh, and how about getting in the habit of putting away washed and folded clothes on a regular basis?

That's all I could think of for now.

Current services

* Booking-service
* Data entry & processing
* E-mail management
* Equipment-use
* Mail merge, mail shots, forwarding & management
* Proofreading
* Purchases
* Reminder-service
* Research
* Typing and transcription
* Translation
* Web-services
* Word processing & other writing services

Anything TIME SAVING for the small business owner or private individual.