November 2011 Archives | Cloud Productivity

How to Setup SugarCRM Part 5: Dealing with Upgrade Issues

Previously, upgrades for SugarCRM were relatively small in size. However, with the pace at which the industry is evolving, the changes being made to the application to streamline processes, provide the best possible user experience and knowing how users actually interact with application have made the size of the upgrade file and time it takes to process much longer (but still not unbearable).

If you’re managing a SugarCRM system on your own (the system is being hosted by Sugar or by a hosting partner), then you may run into problems when upgrading such as configuration issues – it may just seem like nothing is happening at all during the upgrade.

We’ll now look at what happens if the default installation of Sugar has trouble being upgraded. This is particularly the case when using HostMonster, or any other hosting provider (apart from Sugar themselves, or a SugarCRM hosting partner).

Automatic iPhoto Backup using Dropbox

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Have you ever lost your collection of photos because of a problem with your computer or backup hard drive? It’s one of the most frustrating things that can happen to you. All that time spent taking great photos, downloading to your computer, organizing and arranging into albums, tagging with people, places and events… gone. Never to come back.

All those captured memories…. lost.

There are a few online photo cataloging applications, but most of us are using traditional desktop applications such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, Picasa, iPhoto or any other of a thousand applications.

Here, I will show you how you can set up iPhoto to store all your photos in the Cloud AND on your computer. This means you can continue to use iPhoto like you always have while having your photos, and any changes you make to them, safely backed up… all the time.

Productivity is Personal

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Business and personal productivity is a rapidly growing space. As our lives become more and more chaotic, we look for order, for clarity. Inevitably, we turn to Google for the answers and Google shows us a so many products and services available to bring order back into our lives. There are software tools, articles, strategies, courses and audio/visual resources out there that claim to make you more productive, and reduce stress and anxiety. Some sources also take the approach that to become more productive, you should stop doing so much! (Personally, I’m a big fan of this – its quality over quantity, but it’s hard to put this philosophy into practice).

Normally, the next thing we do (after scouring Google) is try out all these products and services, to find which one works for us. The problem with this is that while we test and test and test, our productivity plummets. We have lost focus of the goal and are more concerned about being able to use the tool than actually completing the task.

Here are a few simple steps to help you find the right system to become more productive.