All Entries in the "Helpful Tips" Category
Social Networking Meets Dumb Criminals
This is the perfect story to stumble on for a Monday…
A young man of 19 years old, broke into a house in West Virginia recently and stole two diamond rings worth about $3500. This wouldn’t seem like a big news story except before this young criminal left the home, he checked into his Facebook account… [...]
Disease Outbreaks? There’s an App for That
In a telling sign of the swine-flu times, iPhone has released an application that will let a user know if there are disease-outbreaks lurking in their neighborhood.
Named “Outbreaks Near Me” – the app is designed to alert users of disease information. The mobile version even allows participation; for example, if a clinic is noticing a [...]
Happy Earth Day!
April 22nd is the celebration of Earth Day and in honor of our planet, her are a few technology tips you can use to reduce your impact on Earth.
Get rid of the “vampires” -vampire power is the energy your appliances and technology use, even when they are not on. Just turning it off is not [...]
Making Twitter Work For You
Twitter has become one of the fastest growing trends in technology – we’ve mentioned it before in this blog but maybe you’re still unsure as to what it is, how to use it and how to make it work for you.
I’m thrilled to send you to an article written by one of our technicians, Jason, [...]
Using Technology in Your Job Search
In an effort to pass along useful information to our readers, I stumbled upon this article, which may be helpful to those who have lost their jobs in this economic downturn. “Job Hunters: Mind Your Manners”, is written by Mark Jewell and covers the topic of tech etiquette while on the search for new employment.
Including [...]
Don’t Forget to Log Out
I ran across a pretty funny article this week that shows the dangers of not logging out of your computer (email account, facebook account, etc). While this has been written in a comical manner, it is a very serious topic.
Many of our own users do not log off properly, some keep the same password for [...]
Nathaniel’s Tip of the Day
Is your processor 64-bit capable? With SecurAble, you can find out in about 2 seconds.
According to its website, “SecurAble probes the system’s processor to determine the presence, absence and operational status of three modern processor features:
64-bit instruction extensions,
Hardware support for detecting and preventing
the execution of code in program data areas, … and
Hardware support for system [...]
Nathaniel’s Handy Tip of the Day
To those of us that live in the future and use Vista, (yes, I’m an optimist!) I wanted to share some of the Sidebar Gadgets that I have found the most useful since the time of release. I recently went through an update check on them all so they should be current. [...]
Nathaniel’s Find of the Day
If you have a Windows Mobile device, chances are you are less than happy with the mobile browsing experience that IE gives you. It’s pretty bad – there is no Flash Player, pictures take forever to upload (if you can see them at all), and did I mention how sl-ow it is? Well fret [...]
Nathaniel’s Find of the Day
A recent piece of handy-dandy free software I recently found is Unlocker. It installs an explorer extension that will allow you to see which processes have hooks into the file you are trying to change or delete and can kill them, allowing you to delete or change said file. If after that [...]