For the last 10 years, owning a small business server (SBS) was a mark of legitimacy for small companies. A SBS meant you could have your own customized email addresses; you could run your own custom applications—database, office productivity, CRM, finance, etc; you had a secure place to store files; you had a central resource [...]

  Google has updated their search tweaks,  which began with the changes they made to social search which allows you to see your friend’s results when you do a Google search. Google has taken this improvement and moved it up one more notch with their latest algorithm update. Users will now see a combination of [...]

Your company’s domain name, or it’s address on the internet, is an important part of your brand, image, and message.  It is akin to a piece of property or some other form of capital that you want to protect.  That is why it is important to know the vital details about your domain name, including [...]

From Wikipedia: “Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity.“ This is all well and good. But what does it mean for you and your business? Well let’s first discuss disasters. Disasters recovery [...]

Ever wonder what distribution lists you are on?  Are you getting all the right notifications in your email from all the right groups?  I will show you in this blog how you can see exactly what distribution lists in your network you are a member of to double check that all the right company correspondence [...]

Ever wish for something a little more than those little red or green squiggles when it comes to tweaking your grammar in documents? Many years ago I stumbled upon a great free app called WordWeb as I was looking for a thesaurus program. After installing it I was impressed with how many useful things it [...]

Recently a colleague had a ZIP file sent to them under the auspices of an Airline Reservation.  When it the ZIP attachment was opened, an .EXE file popped open in a text box with a prompt to RUN.  Luckily we realized something was amiss and did some exploring – This is what we found: It [...]

I frequent my neighborhood coffee shop and I like using their coffee drinkers incentive program. But rather than getting my sixth cup of coffee free, more often the case is that I have three partially punched cards next to where a keep my car keys and another goes through the wash every three months or [...]

Did you know that Windows 7 comes with its own backup tool?  Here is a quick tutorial on how to use this tool to protect and back up all the important files, folders and data.  While there is no substitute for a professionally managed backup solution both locally and online to fully protect your data, [...]

Sometimes signals get mixed, communication breaks down and meetings are cancelled, missed or postponed for what seems like an eternity.  A frustrating thing happened to me this week, and it was a simple matter of scheduling.  I had a conference call set-up for a number of different parties.  Everyone agreed on a time, a calendar [...]