The Technic Alley

I was using Turbo Tax Home and Business 2007 and wanted to send the final PDF to a tax consultant for some review. I wanted to create an encrypted PDF from Turbo Tax; I couldn’t find a way to do this. Then I figured that an alternative would be to “ZIP” the unencrypted PDF, and [...]

[This is the concluding post in the article Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Schedule Events.]
Using a web-based application to enhance communication and collaboration between members of a neighborhood crime watch group is something that many such groups have done with great success. The web-group gives members the feeling of a “group home” where [...]

[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Conduct Polls]
Calendar Application
The Calendar is probably the least used of the group features, but it is quite handy. If you have a forthcoming neighborhood group meeting, or may be a meeting with the representatives of your city NCW administration, you can [...]

[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Manage Information.]
In the previous posts, we focused on communication and collaboration tools of your web-group. This post discusses a different kind of feature.
Poll Application
Like all the other tools, the Poll application is also pretty simple to use. Let’s say that you [...]

[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Collaborate.]
In the previous posts in this article, we discussed features like the group message board, sharing of files, pictures and links, and how you can use them. In this post, we look at another interesting feature that can be put to [...]

[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Communicate.]
In the previous post, we saw how to use the group message board to communicate with the other group members.
Collaboration Features
While the message board application is often the most popular of the features, the group offers several other applications with [...]

[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Neighborhood Crimebusters- Create A Group]
Group Message Board
This post explains how you can use the group’s Message Board feature. This is by far the most popular feature of a group. The message board provides a quick and easy way to send a [...]

Setting up a Neighborhood Crime Watch (NCW) group, getting to know our neighbors and staying connected with them is one of the most effective ways to fight crimes around our homes. The posts listed here discuss how to set up a web based neighborhood community and how to use it to communicate with your neighbors [...]

[This post is part of a series for the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post in the series: Know Thy Neighbors.]
The rest of this article describes how you could set up a Yahoo Group as a web portal for your neighborhood. Please note you could also use other such applications like Google or [...]

[This post is the first of a series for the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters’ Web Based Community.]
Start a Neighborhood Crime Watch group
One of the best ways to improve the level of security around your home and your neighborhood is by getting to know your neighbors. A lot of community Neighborhood Crime Watch (NCW) groups have been [...]