Windows 1.0 is released! (35 years ago!)

Can you believe it? Windows very first GUI interface changed it all. (I know that Apple had it first, but you have to admit that Windows spread it to the masses.). Thirty-five years ago, on Nov. 20th, 1985 was the day they released Windows 1.0. (It didn’t become...

The Seven Elements of Business

Some great ideas from the book, “Making Money is Killing Your Business” by Chuck Blakeman I have been reading an absolutely fascinating book by Chuck Blakeman, as mentioned above. Our mission at HighPower Data Solutions is to help businesses succeed...

Why it is time to upgrade your website

These clues indicate it’s time to update Your site loads slowlyYou know that load time affects your Google juice right? If it loads slow, down you go.Your site doesn’t match your brandingMaybe it never did; maybe you have changed your branding, and...

The Rise of Citizen Developers

A whole new type of software is allowing business owners to DIY! It used to be that if you wanted software to run your business, you really only had two choices: buy something off the shelf, or hire an expensive developer to build your own. But with the emergence of...

Who’s Running Your Business?

Did you think it was you? No, in many cases, it is your software that’s in charge. Somewhere in a boardroom somewhere, someone decided the best way to run YOUR business. They decided the terminology which you would have to use for your “customers” or...

Claris Engage Conference

A virtual conference for FileMaker developers and users This year the annual conference, like so many others impacted by the Covid19 crisis, has gone virtual. This conference used to be called FileMaker Devcon for some twenty plus years. Last year, to mark the name...

The Intelligent Investor

Classic work by Benjamin Graham Since I just wrote a blog last week about an investing book, I had recently read, I thought I would continue the trend by writing about another investment book which I recently finished. I didn’t read it exactly; it was an audible...

HighPower Freelance Software

Project Tracking Software for Freelancers We’ve finally landed on a new name for the software which we have been developing for nine months now: HighPower Freelance. This is Project Tracking Software for Freelancers. We came to this conclusion in recognition of...

Unstoppable Prosperity

Unstoppable Prosperity by Charles Payne Because we like to focus on helping small business owners grow and prosper by providing them with business automation systems and websites, I like to share once in a while books which I think will be found useful by the same....

FileMaker 19 is here!

We love the spring-time when the flowers bloom, the sun shines, and Claris releases a new version of FileMaker Pro! FileMaker Pro is one of the best and most amazing software development platforms out there for creating custom business applications. It has proved its...

Drowning in Data

Companies have too much data, but not the right tools to analyze it all. In the May 2020 issue of Twin Cities Business, is an article written by Gene Rebeck, entitled “High Tech Advantages”. The focus of the article is how new technologies offer...

FileMaker is Great RAD Software!

What is RAD software? It is Rapid Application Development software. Read it this way, “software that will save my company a lot of development costs because it can be built quickly”. FileMaker has always been one of the great options for rapid application software....