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Become an Anti-SPAM Warrior!

July 27, 2011
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This morning, I opened my personal email account to find a SPAM email. Very obviously one, sitting right there. So, rather than just delete it, I took a moment to look at it and it revealed some clues as to how it got to me, and by way of that analysis, I...

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Laptop Batteries – Keep them in/plugged in!

December 23, 2010
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A few weeks ago, listening to The Tech Guy Leo Laporte, I found out I have been operating, and advising people, on old information. The modern day laptop batteries are just fine being plugged in pretty much all the time. I had been telling people to let them run down when you could, then...

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Understanding Your Digital Landscape Seminar 11/16/2010

November 15, 2010
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From the flyer, regarding the Seminar I’ll be conducting to help business owners, who are not technically enabled, to better understand what makes their business function: Understanding the Digital Landscape What is it? How do you find it? How do you use it effectively? Computers save us time in everything from information storage and retrieval, calculation, graphic design, and...

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Soldier’s Angels VALOur-IT Fund Drive 2010

November 6, 2010
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Soldier’s Angels VALOur-IT Fund Drive 2010

Technology moves ahead in unpredictable ways, sometimes. History lesson below, for the interested. For those who are ready and need to donate and move on: Click here. If you’re looking to help an old Sailor out, then “push” the button for Navy. Know this: It all goes into the same pot, but, the...

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Some Will Be Horrified, Others Drawn Closer…

September 21, 2010
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Some Will Be Horrified, Others Drawn Closer…

From across the room, you wonder…”what is that?” You see no “My Computer” in the upper left side of the screen, but you see the word “Inspiron” (somehow, it is strangely familiar, but you can’t place it. Walking closer, the screen background shows a large, powerful animal starring at you with coal black pupils,...

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Is Your eMail Connecting you to Your Brand?

September 8, 2010
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Question: What is the domain of your email you hand out for business? Another: Is it the same as your website? One more: If not, why not? var flashvars = {};flashvars.height=260;flashvars.width=320;flashvars.file="rtmp://fmedia.attainresponse.com/video";flashvars.image="http://apps.attainresponse.com/tmb_wm/ccvideo@comf5-com/1283992186121.jpg";flashvars.id="ccvideo@comf5-com/1283992186121";flashvars.autostart="false";flashvars.shownavigation=true;flashvars.repeat=false;flashvars.allowFullScreen=true;var params = {};params.allowFullScreen=true;var attributes = {};swfobject.embedSWF("http://apps.attainresponse.com/MediaF5/mediaplayer.swf", "mediaContent1283992422551", "320", "260", "7.0.61", "http://apps.attainresponse.com/MediaF5/expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes); Don’t risk leaving your contacts out in the cold…actually, leaving...

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Android – To the Rescue!

July 14, 2010
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Android – To the Rescue!

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

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Microsoft Ends Windows XP Service Pack 2 support today

July 13, 2010
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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...

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They show up at the most vulnerable spots…

July 9, 2010
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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...

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WordPress Marches on!

June 18, 2010
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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...

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