Category: WebDev & Code

  • Moving my small business [cloud email, file sharing, calendars] to a new provider

    It’s time for my small business to update our solution for email, file storage, calendars, etc so I’m making notes as I go that you may find helpful and I will find helpful when I look back to remember what I’ve done and why. Situation: When I started Roots Kitchens Bedrooms Bathrooms in 1998 our…

  • Magic letterhead tray – making preprinted stationary automatically on plain white paper

    A couple of years ago I stopped buying letterheads for my business and instead created a special print queue that merged any document sent to print with a PDF letterhead template. Last month, it stopped working on just my PC. I’m not quite sure if it broke from a Windows update or something else had…

  • How many 1st class stamps to use on heavy letters?

    In our office, we buy Royal Mail stamps in ready to use denominations of “1st Class”, “2nd Class”, “Large 1st Class” and “Large 2nd Class”. However, these are only useful for 100g weight letters. For heavy letters, we can use multiples of these stamps. I noticed I was routinely having to do the calculation in…