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The latest tricks used by social engineers
Wikipedia defines social engineering as “…the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques.” In other words, rather than a person coming to your house and...
Monitor your network and equipment to minimize downtime
Even if you aren’t located in the Midland, Odessa or surrounding areas, you can still take advantage of our network monitoring service. Whether your company consists of just two computers or several thousand, I highly recommend this service to everyone. Network...
Is your computer’s boot sector infected with malware?
Do you have a computer in Midland or Odessa that is infected with spyware or malware? Do you need computer software repair? Our PC Restoration service will wipe it out 100%. There is a new post over at the blog of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center that may make...
Add Your Business to Facebook Places
If you have a business in Midland or Odessa (or anywhere) - you can (and should) use social networking to advertise. What most people don't realize is that your business is probably already on the Internet - whether you created a website or not. Anyone can rate your...
Use RSS feeds to keep up to date with your favorite websites
RSS feeds are a great way to keep up to date with your favorite websites without getting overwhelmed. RSS feeds are quick summaries of the content available on a website. If a website were a newspaper, RSS feeds would be all of the headlines. The first thing to do...
How to Talk to Children About Online Safety
Over 7 million children under 13 have Facebook profiles. Although many adults were past adolescence when they started the Internet, children were raised with it being a normal part of their life. Mashable has put up a great article about how to talk to your children...
Learn how to use 39 different Google apps
Most people think of Google as just the website they use to find stuff on the web. Once you look a little deeper, however, you will find that Google has an incredible offering of useful services, most of which are free. The guys over at Maximum PC have written a great...
Use Google Picasa to backup your pictures easily and inexpensively
I'd like to add another element to our recent off-site backup blog post. If you are like most people you have quite a few digital pictures. Again, if you are like most people, you probably aren't backing them up but you certainly should be. It can be quite devastating...
Add off-site to your backup plan
Let's start by assuming that everyone out there does backups on a regular basis. We all know that isn't true, but it is a dream that needs to be in place for this article. If you aren't backing up, using one of the products mentioned here is a great way for you to...
Solved: User not appearing in Openfire IM
We like to share little tidbits like these on our blog for the benefit of everyone else on the Internet. We had a rather perplexing support issue today that we resolved. A client was using an open source instant messaging platform consisting of Spark and Openfire. It...
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