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Looking For An E-Fax Solution

Looking For An E-Fax Solution

Last week, we had a customer inquire about an e-fax system, which is an online faxing service that processes faxes online and converts them into  email messages. In this case, it would allow all six of their offices to direct faxes to one main online location, but still be separated by office. With the large [...]

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Geeks Through the Years

Geeks Through the Years

Covering geek-dom through the years – from when it wasn’t cool to be a geek all the way to the present where Facebook and Twitter rule. From the Woz to Zuckerberg, read through the full article/slide show for the evolution of how being a geek finally became cool.
A Brief History of Geeks – PC World

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A Different Kind of Computer Worm

A Different Kind of Computer Worm

When most computer users hear something about a “worm”, they know it’s not a good thing. Wiki defines a computer worm as “a self-replicating computer program.” It works its way through the computers on your network, without need to attach to a program, like a virus.
But Mark Taylor got a computer worm of another kind [...]

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Email Scam Finally Nails One

Email Scam Finally Nails One

As anyone with an email account knows, everyday you receive emails about getting a check from Bill Gates if you forward the email on, job offers that pay high but only require US citizenship and a computer or someone in Nigeria (maybe even a relative!) who just needs a little help to make you super [...]

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True Story

True Story

A customer contacted our help desk line early one morning with a frantic message about their server’s hard drive, red lights and error message…
When we checked out their problem ’server’ (which wasn’t really a server at all, more on that later) there were two hard drives that were mirroring each other – so when someone [...]

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True Story

True Story

During the spring, I received a call from a new prospect that was interested in seeing how I could help them. After they explained the problem, my heart sank. This customer had been running their entire business on a Dell computer that was purchased in 1996.
This computer, in 1996, was top notch – [...]

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Make Your Computer Smarter

Make Your Computer Smarter

Your car can tell you when it has a problem, why not your computer?
With certain models of vehicles, you will get this great piece of technology that will email you when your oil needs to be changed, when the tire pressure is low or when there is a problem with the engine.
What a novel idea! [...]

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Old Hardware

Old Hardware

It’s not unusual to have a washing machine for 15 years or a car for 10. However, the same cannot be said for technology, or any piece of electronics, and computers are no different.
A company in Manchester contacted me recently to help them with their main computer in the office – this computer was used [...]

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