Apple’s Abdication and the Imminent Death of OSX.

After all the time, money, and momentum put into years of “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” ads, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave nothing short of a concession speech on Wednesday. Cook’s comments (wrapped around his iPad introduction) are an acknowledgement that Apple has all but given up on servers…and desktops….and soon notebooks. Interesting counterpoint to my recent post on the [...]

New guidance on free antivirus

A few quick thoughts: 1. Use extreme caution with computer and mobile device use! We have seen a major up-tick in virus, malware, and general crappy stuff running on our home clients and new-client systems over the past few weeks. Make sure you go to www.adobe.com, click “Get Flash Player” and install/update the latest one. [...]

Dude, Where’s My Cloud?

Whether it’s planned maintenance, widespread power failures, major Internet routing problems, or a software glich, bad things CAN happen.

Internet Self-Defense: Why should I care?

It’s time for people to be good citizens and take care of their computers.”

(repost 8/24/08) Avoid free web hosting. Avoid yourfavorite.com and finitesite.com

Or, why you should talk to me about certain things before you do them. The answer to the above question? Because “free” web hosting invariably ends up costing more than “paid” web hosting. They charge for support….charge for name services and requests….then hold your name for ransom when you finally try to leave! A couple years [...]

(repost 8/19/08) More fun with Norton Antivirus!

“What’s the single most common cause of ANY computer problem?”

(repost) Quickbooks on linux (well, sort of)

There’s ONE piece of the puzzle that’s keeping lots of small-to-medium businesses tied to Windows Operating Systems. Ironically, it’s also a market leader that Microsoft themselves have been unable to counter at all. Quickbooks. It’s well-known by now that some older versions of Quickbooks will run under some versions of wine and CrossoverOffice…sometimes. Not supported. [...]

(repost) Norton + Quickbooks + SBS = Hours of Extra Work

I had an “interesting” experience this week, where I moved a client from an existing peer-to-peer network to a shiny new SBS03 setup.