Efficiency

Google, that monstrosity, is sweeping the market.
While iPhone 4 is amazing, the Android phone OS is a juggernaut. I was looking to see if an app, like one I saw on an iPhone was in the Android market, when I stumbled upon this one, useful for extraction from bad dates, meetings, etc:
FakeCall Pro

And what does this mean to the average small business computer user?
< a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/07/security-patching-for-xp-service-pack-2-ends-today.html">“Security Patching for XP Service Pack 2 Ends Today”.
It costs money to have teams of people, like fire fighters, employed for the “in case of emergency” situations. Yes, while they aren’t responding to the latest hacker attacks, they can be doing [...]

[ July 9, 2010; 1:00 pm; 1:00 pm; ] The “bad guys” on the Internet have long had a habit of finding the biggest security holes with the greatest potential impact. That’s one reason why the Apple computer line has remained effectively virus free (I caught at least one in the early Mac days (Scores), so don’t tell me there never has been [...]

Yesterday was the day that the final release version of WordPress 3.0 made it’s way into the hands of those who wait for “final releases.”
Recently, one of the people who does a lot of lectures on Social Media wandered off the tracks long enough to say he wasn’t a web designer, but people should have [...]

I travel among many networking groups in my area, and I collect lots of business cards.  Generally, by first visual search is to the email address listed, followed by the website.
What makes me look harder than a scan is when the email/email domain isn’t associated with the website.  Why?  In this day and age, there [...]

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Video.  Google ranks it above blogs and websites (in that order).
Many people would rather watch a video, than read the text that says the same thing.  The can do it while “multi-tasking” and can put their eyes on it, or not, to fit their style of absorbing the info.
Others want the text, as [...]

Unlike others who teach people how to blog, I’ve found my approach is “content centric.”
If the words your readers see are pretty much the same simplified message on every other site like yours (read “competitors”), what are your odds of ever hearing from them to provide your service or product?
If you’re unique, then it’s not [...]

Object lesson today. He had backed up about 2 weeks ago to the nice, sleek, 2.5: external hard drive. Yesterday a virus ran amok and the advice (from another source) was to restore the laptop to a factory new install condition.
When we go the email account data set back in place, and then [...]

Think about it: We all have learned what we know and do for a living. Part came from the books, part from experience and immersion.
From my perspective, I bring those immersive experiences of my learning, and apply them to your needs. I’ve played with lots of hardware, software and systems over the [...]

I have managed to breathe life back into several year old computers on many occasions.  I enjoy the challenge, but some computers people are using are just getting to the point of “beyond economical repair.”
I recently worked on a 9 year old Hewlett-Packard Pavillion.  I’ve been “managing” this computer for a client for almost a [...]