Simplify the Way You Work, Live and Play

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The world races by faster and faster, encouraging each of us to work longer and harder, to earn more money and generally run ourselves ragged. The truly driven among us can now leverage the internet and work a twenty four hour shift and a seven day work week. Maybe some people can maintain that pace but we suspect very few of them actually enjoy it.

If you are like us at buddha hat, you've realized that you can accomplish quite a bit by slowing down and really taking a look at the issues you are faced with at work or in other aspects of your day. Once you truly understand the problem, you can begin to bring some balance back into your life.

Can anyone do this all by themselves? No, but you've found a good place to start. We are constantly evaluating free and low-cost business applications, scheduling packages, e-commerce tools as well as many other items that will help stream line your day. We can install and maintain the applications for you as well if you need our help.

Why "buddha hat version 1.3"? Well, the rest of the world is hammering along towards Web 2.0 but we feel most comfortable running along a few versions behind. Not the biggest, fastest or flashiest but it works well enough for us :)

Website Design



Somewhere Between An Online Brochure And Amazon.com Please

Do you like the look of this website? It was so easy to build, I swear you could build it yourself, if you had the time and a little technical knowledge, but you don't have the time to learn how to build one, much less actually do the work and then there's the time you have to spend to update it and keep it current.

Sound familiar?

We don't want to sell you a shiny new website and walk away from you. We don't want to talk you into a massive development project. We don't want to charge you a lot of money either.

What we want to do is find a website style and structure that's right for you. Then we want to start a working relationship that gets your website up fast and keeps it current for years to come. Finally, We want to be your webmaster until you are ready to take on the job yourself.

How much does it cost? Like everything else on this site - somewhere between free and low-cost.

Technical Writing and Illustration



Not Everyone Can Write But Anyone Can Edit
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Manuals and training materials. You know good examples when you see them and can't stand to read the bad ones. Congratulations, you've just qualified to be an editor.

If you have no time to produce quality user manuals, marketing brochures, course materials, quizzes and presentations, we can help. Let us do the heavy lifting and you can tell us everything we did wrong. And when you want it fixed by.

Give it a try. It's so much easier than staring at a blank sheet of paper.

Oh, by the way, we'd love to do your website content as well.

Internet Applications



Less Is Not Always More, But Sometimes It's Enough

If you have all the money in the world, you can spend most of it trying to keep up with the latest technology. And if you don't take the time to understand the problem you're facing, you won't always get what you're paying for.

Fortunately for the rest of us, there are individuals out there that spend thousands of hours of their own time creating powerful open-source applications that match or exceed the functionality of their shrink-wrapped rivals. And you can modify the application to suit without paying through the nose for a development licence.

Throughout this website you will find references to various free and low-cost applications along with product descriptions, real-world applications and ideas for less-obvious uses. If you have a reasonable amount of web knowledge, you can download them and set them up yourself. If you don't, we can do it for you.

These apps are not always free but they're always worth far more than you paid.

Here's Their Pitch

Use OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us.

Here's Our Call

It works.

For 99% of the population, it will do everything you need. It will let you create new documents, presentations, spreadsheets and databases. It will let you view and edit existing files created in Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office. And it's free. So save your money (or get rid of the pirate copy of MS Office!) and download OpenOffice today.

Use OpenOffice.org

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