When you fail to properly set up or renew your antivirus, your computer could become a part of international crime. No, you aren’t smuggling diamonds or nuclear weapons, but you are lining the coffers of the bad guys! This isn’t a plot of some new movie, but the actual facts of the situation. Fake antiviruses [...]
If you have an old computer lying around that works great, but you aren’t sure what to do with it, here’s a great idea to reuse before recycling. The website Free Oldies is a nearly complete list of older games that have been abandoned or otherwise put in the public domain. The site also links [...]
When is a duck not a duck? When it’s listed on Google as a local duck. We now tend to use Google searches more than we use the yellow pages or 411 (does 411 even work anymore?) However, those “local” searches can be heavily manipulated. This NY Times article () talks about how in a [...]
A common problem clients call us about is that they can’t get on the Internet. Frustrating for sure. Typically it’s either a problem with your computer and home network or your Internet Service Provider. Based on popular demand and client questions, we’ve created a few videos to help people troubleshoot some basic problems. While these [...]
An alarming trend I’ve been hearing more and more about is beginning to hit the Lawrence area. The scam involves your Internet Service Provider calling you about a problem. Typically in Lawrence it’s either Sunflower/Knology or AT&T. The scam is simple “Hi, my name is (usually an Anglicianized name but spoken with a foreign accent) [...]
I’m no genius by any stretch of the imagination and I’m certainly not a hacker, but facts are that people’s passwords follow certain patterns. Here’s a great article about how hackers easily figure out your passwords. The 10 most common passwords are listed here and, honestly, these are the first ones I try when a [...]
It happens to everyone. You can’t find your phone! If you have a land line, of course you can call it, listen for the ring (and hopefully you don’t have it on vibrate). If you don’t…um…what do you do? How can you call it if it’s your only phone? No worries, because this website has [...]
Recently, Alaina Alisha and myself represented Social Media Club of Kansas City and Lawrence at the Kansas City IT Professionals Career Fair and I learned quite a bit how people are NOT using LinkedIn properly to help their career. Here’s a synopsis of the advice we gave and how it can best serve you in [...]
“But Dad, don’t you have people to do that?” Ooops, I should not have said that to my Dad. We were at his office when he was Vice President of a large chemical specialty company and his trash was overflowing and he took it out. Now, to be fair, his products were designed to support [...]
A handshake? Who cares about that. It’s a simple way of greeting people. Americans shake hands. In other cultures they bow or hug. Ah, but it’s really so much more than what it seems. A firm handshake shows commitment and dedication. It shows you are truly happy to see that person. Imagine that positive energy [...]
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