International calling can be expensive and eat up valuable data and minutes if you aren’t careful. For regular international calls it’s good to have a plan for sustained usage to manage costs. Option 1: Google Voice Google Voice offers porting through their service with rates for calls at $.10 a minute. Porting with Google [...]

“DV…What? What Cable?” So many cables and so much confusion. These days’ computers and monitors are coming with so many different connections for cables to different devices and hardware; it is hard to keep up with what is what.  This is a quick break down of a common cable called a DVI cable.  This will explain [...]

Outlook Social Connector Microsoft Outlook has a handy feature that integrates with several social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook. It’s called the Outlook Social Connector and it works with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. Currently Outlook can connect with the following social networks: Facebook; LinkedIn; MySpace; Windows Live Messenger; Xing; & [...]

As you most likely have noticed, there is a huge storm cloud of controversy in the internet regarding two pieces of legislation up for debate in early February in both houses of the United States Congress.  Wikipedia even took down their English language site for 24 hours in protest of these bills.  Google has blacked [...]

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 [...]

Did you know that it’s possible to turn your Mac computer into a wifi hotspot without any 3rd party software? It’s super easy and you can even password protect. Here’s how! Open System Preferences from the Apple drop down menu at the top left of the screen Click on the “Sharing” pane From the drop [...]

It wasn’t that long ago small businesses had pretty limited choices when choosing an email solution: Either host your own Microsoft Exchange server or find a POP email provider. While a POP solution is cheaper it has many limitations and is missing a couple important features critical to most businesses: no shared calendar/contacts and very [...]

When HP sold off the last of it’s tablet The Touchpad this fall, the demand was so great that the company announced that they may have a few lying around for sale at a later date. The details of that second sale have surfaced just in time for Holiday shoppers who want to jump into [...]

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 [...]

Hey there domain administrators.  Did you know it was possible to join a computer to your domain remotely?  Not so hard at all. First, you must have VPN configured on your network.  Your VPN can be configured directly to your firewall, or through your firewall to your Windows Server Routing and Remote Access.  (How to [...]