Original Airdate: November 17, 2007

If you’ve ever been stuck on hold waiting to deal with Government Agencies, you’re going to want to pay special attention to this episode dedicated to small business. Steve shows how businesses can have instant access to a variety of services available online from the Canada Revenue Agency. Steve also looks at several productivity tools that help the small or home based business: Send2Fax- a virtual fax machine, Blinksale- an online invoicing program and at an Outlook add-on called Getting Things Done, that helps you organize your inbox.

On Tech Toys Caroline looks at a The Polaroid Click Free Media Backup – a portable device that lets you backup all your pictures with minimum effort.

Small Business

We’ll show you the best new technologies for small business, such as HP’s Officejet Pro K550 printer. Steve introduces us to Vonage, a new kind of phone company that uses the internet to make and receive calls from anywhere in the world with just a regular telephone and adapter. He also shows us how to turn your computer into atelephone using Vonage’s SoftPhone.

Anti-Spam

Nothing gets Steve’s blood boiling like time wasted wading through spam. With Norton Internet Security 2006 you can efficiently deal with this annoying safety threat. And Caroline shows you how you can finally import all your contacts that are trapped on paper into your email program, with the Targus Mini Business Card Scanner.