People are asking me all the time to look out for good deals on computer equipment. I always try to keep in mind Quarter end and fiscal year ends of some of the big name equipment vendors. I have found some pretty incredible equipment deals for my customers to help them get the best bang [...]
Noun
S: (n) Google (a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user’s search)
Verb
S: (v) Google (search the Internet (for information) using the Google search engine) "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day" [...]
I’ve often wondered why this wasn’t done by default – seems easy enough for Microsoft to do. Maybe because the product is sold worldwide – but who knows?
Enabling the option to mark your calendar for public holidays is easy…
> From the Tools menu in Outlook, click Options, then click Calendar Options. [...]
"Weather you measure your productivity in facts researched, alien spaceships vaporized, or articles written, adding an extra monitor will give your output a considerable boost."
Its a proven fact that having two screens will increase productivity. If you are looking for data to justify the extra $150 – $200, New York Times has a great [...]
We live in a time where there is information coming at us from all angles in the form of E-Newsletters, Television Media, Websites, Radio etc, etc… With all of this information out there, where do we find the time to get anything done?
As you can probably imagine, in the ever-changing world of computer technology, [...]
One way that a recession can benefit the customer is that it forces businesses to becomes more "customer focused". That is – companies with good, sound customer service practices and principals tend to retain and even attract customers. You might say that a recession separates the "healthy" companies with good processes from the overwhelmed companies [...]
Often I am asked what people do with their old, unwanted computers and computer equipment. Unfortunately most people just chuck them in the trash can. Computers are filled with lead-based solder that can be harmful to ground water, as well as numerous plastic and silicon parts that aren’t biodegradable. According to the EPA, consumer electronics [...]
The Internet began revealing its dangerous side more than a decade ago. As one veteran business analyst remarked, "Personal information on the Internet started turning into asbestos, becoming highly toxic. People started discovering a lot of it around."
Identity theft emerged, of course, and began ruining lives. Now, the analyst notes, "There are more obligations than [...]
On November 11th 2008 Microsoft released an advisory (MS08-068) detailing a vulnerability present in all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer – including beta versions of IE8. The exploitation technique is referred to as "SMB Reflection". There have been widespread reports of active exploitation of this vulnerability via Internet Explorer – including reports that the [...]
You may have heard the term "Web 2.0" in the media recently. The term seems to suggest a new or updated version of the World Wide Web, however the term does not refer to any technical specifications at all.
As Tim O’Reiley suggests, it refers to changes in the ways people use the World [...]
