Technology
Keeping Your Company Moving Forward: When to Outsource IT
There’s an old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” You’ve heard it a thousand times. Might have even said it a few hundred. But that proverb doesn’t sound as good when your car breaks down 1,500 miles from home. “Honey, did you ever get that tune-up?” If you’ve ever heard those words while…
Read MoreHas Technology Rendered Personal Connections Obsolete
Technology provides some amazing tools. We can contact friends and co-workers around the world with a push of a button. We can instantly send and retrieve data that once required trucks to deliver. We can monitor our business or home from nearly anywhere on the planet. But is there a downside? One of the most…
Read MoreInteresting Insights from 5 Million E-Mails
Baydin, the makers of an email plugin Boomerang, recently analyzed over 5 million emails that were sent and received by Boomerang’s users. Out of the 147 messages the average email user receives every day, only 12 require “substantial work.” Those 12 messages which require “substantial work” take up approximately 90 minutes per day! Most people…
Read MoreDon’t Take the Bait — Practice Link Safety – Hyperlink Best Practices
The Internet is full of friendly people. There are Nigerian princes who want to give us a piece of their oil fortunes, in exchange for some basic bank account information, or long-lost relatives coming out of the woodwork to wire us multi-million dollar inheritances. To say nothing of the generosity of strangers: just the other…
Read MoreThe Cost of Data Re-Creation and Data Recovery — And Yes, We Can Help
As I was working on some new marketing materials this week, I came across some interesting information on the cost to re-create data that had been lost due to either a data backup failure or the absence of a sufficient data backup solution. Data is the lifeblood of modern business, and the rate at which…
Read MoreNew Year, New Password
January is here, and we’re two weeks into the New Year. As we resolve to visit the gym, eat healthy and improve our finances, it’s also an ideal time to consider our digital life and ensure that we are taking all the necessary precautions to make sure that our data is safe and protected from…
Read MoreHow To Remove Dust & Air Bubbles From Your Mobile Device Screen Protector
With smartphones, iPads, and other electronic devices costing hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars, many people buy screen protectors to keep their new gadgets clean and scratch-free. If dust gets trapped in between the screen and the protector, however, it can be a big distraction. You find yourself looking at all the dust particles instead…
Read MoreInitial Thoughts on the Apple iPad
For years I’ve waited for someone to come out with a great tablet computer. One that can do all the things my notebook computer can do, but in a smaller, lighter package and with a really great touchscreen. Presumably, it would come with a stylus and would recognize my handwriting. It would definitely run Windows…
Read MoreProfessional Photographer Chase Jarvis Shows How Backups are Done
I ran across this fascinating video recently on one of my favorite photography websites. In it, professional photographer Chase Jarvis describes the backup strategies he employs for his work. Chase does a great job explaining how a quality backup plan works, and many of the methods he shares are similar to the backup solutions we…
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