Channel 9 – A Community for developers and users

With so much video available from so many sources how do you choose what you are going to watch? I know it’s hard but I keep up with most the content that interests me by using iTunes to collect the Podcasts or going directly to the content provider’s site to access the information. Microsoft has created several “communities” that contain information about products, how to use them and discussions of projects and events surrounding the software giant. Channel 9 is one of those communities. One way of keeping up with new content coming from this site is to subscribe to its RSS feed. If you are new to RSS and the ability to have site postings sent to you automatically then you are in for a real treat.

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Are Solid State Drives Better Than Spinning Platter Based Drives?

This is a subject that we have been musing over quite a bit lately when talking to our clients and one that you will of course have to answer for yourself based on hopefully the information that I am about to give you. The two primary things that you need to consider are how much storage do you need and how much do you want to pay to decrease data access times.

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Blogging Pitfalls: How to Not Abandon Your Blog | BloggingPro

If you are thinking of starting a blog or are currently working with one, this article points to some really good insights that are important to keep in mind. Be sure you keep up with so that it shows some activity. Otherwise people will think that it is abandoned. Then you will lose followers and eventually you’ll probably lose interest. Take a few minutes and peruse this great article.

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Shimming – a new con used to steal your ID and other info…

I’m not sure if there is anything that you can do to protect yourself from this kind of attack except stop using ATM machines. Shimming is the newest con designed to skim our credit card number, PIN and other info when you swipe your card through a reader in an ATM machine.

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My wife made an interesting comment to me this weekend

Kathy has become another convert into the digital age. She spent the weekend reading Janet Evanovich’s new book Sizzling Sixteen on, wait for this, a Kindle…

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My new constant companion.

So what item do you normally always have with you these days that you feel lost if you don’t have it with you. I’m sure most of you would say your phone. If it is a smart phone, of feature phone and you are into texting, you would probably find yourself looking/reaching for it to see who has contacted you or wanting to respond or tell everyone what is going on in your current situation. Well, for me, I have found that I have been neglecting my phone more and more to give my new companion most of my attention. Yes, I’m talking about my iPad and it is now my new favorite device that I can’t be without.

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VIPRE antivirus product line joins the GFI family

We have been a partner with both GFI and Sunbelt Technologies for quite a while and have found all of their products of highly professional quality and perform well for what they do. Today’s announcement of the acquisition of Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE product suite adds to GFI’s extensive product list.

GFI Software announced today that it has acquired Sunbelt Software and specifically its VIPRE^® product suite. The acquisition will allow GFI to merge VIPRE technology into GFI’s email security and web security solutions group, and will provide GFI with new security products consisting of world-class and innovative technology.

The VIPRE Enterprise product line provides seamless, tightly-integrated endpoint security that delivers antivirus and antispyware protection, desktop firewall, and malicious website filtering technologies to protect against the ever-changing and sophisticated wave of malware in a comprehensive, highly efficient manner.The VIPRE Enterprise product line is only available in English.

Is the iPad too All Consuming as a Media Consumptive Device?

I know all the techies in the office are laughing about how much I am enjoying my new iPad but it has become a way for me to have instant access to information at my fingertips no matter where I am and to attempt to keep up with the never ending amount of information that is create moment to moment about the world around us. “How so?” you ask…

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Get a Free Year of Amazon Prime with an .EDU Address

A recent series of articles have been published discussing how college students that have a .edu address can qualify for a free year of Amazon Prime to help with speeding up shipping and decreasing your shipping costs for products that you purchase from Amazon.

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How to Stay Connected

I talked a little bit about how I pick the devices that I use, in this post I want to talk about the what I am using to accomplish this. First, let’s go down the list of devices that I use both for the office and my own entertainment. At the office I have an i7 Workstation with dual 19 inch monitors in the traditional square or 4:3 format. At home my primary system is again an i7 but I am using a 32 inch TV/Monitor as my secondary monitor and a 22 inch widescreen for my primary screen. I also have three mobile devices, an 10.1 inch Acer NetBook, an iPhone 3gs, and my newest acquisition an Apple iPad.

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Tech Toys

It is such a sad thing to open my desk drawer and see all of the my tech toys of the past just lying there with their sad faces staring back at me, no longer seeing the light of day. no longer being touched with loving fingers, no longer being recharged to provide the enjoyment that they once did. I do love my toys. I love trying to find new uses for them

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No, I haven’t fallen off the edge of the world!

Sorry about my distraction and my not picking up the keyboard to write about my new toy, but I have been distracted the past couple of weeks playing with my new toy and seeing how I can incorporate it into my business life.

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News Alert! Windows XP w/SP2 Support is coming to an end July 13

Microsoft has announced for quite awhile now that they were ending support for Windows XP SP2 next month. Not to worry though, Windows XP SP3 is still going to be supported until 2014 and it has been recommended for a long time that you upgrade to this service pack if only for the security updates that it supplies.

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New TOSHIBA Laptops-Faster-More Power Efficient-Lighter

Ultrathin and lightweight. Beautiful looks. A long battery life rating. Full performance. What else would you expect from the Portégé® R700, Toshiba's 25th Anniversary Edition laptop?

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How To Build an Awesome $500 Windows Home Server - Tested

It was a little convoluted path on how I got to this great technology website that has a wealth of information on it about, well, Technology. They have great How-To Videos and blog posts describing how to make technology items to add to your life, software that makes your products work better or smarter and general information about which is the best products to buy to meet the price/performance ratio best choice.

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10 QuickBooks issues and how to resolve them | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com

This is a good article that shows 10 common QuickBooks problems and methods to fix them. Just wanted to document where to find this for future reference.

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Intel Anti-Theft Video – At the Beach

Very interesting video discussing laptop theft and how Intel can help loss of private data. If you are in a situation where you can’t afford to have someone else gaining access to the information on your notebook then this technology is important to you. Watch the video, it has some humor inserted about a subject that both scares and haunts me.

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Intel's Anti-Theft Technology

In this mobile world that we live in it is important to protect our data and identities from intrusion and theft. Intel can help in this battle with their Intel® Anti-Theft Technology.

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Never Say You’re Sorry

You have all probably been in the situation where you have lost a file on your computer, either because you accidentally deleted it, had a system crash, virus attack or the super catastrophe, a drive failure. Recently, on my blog site, I had written about a virus that goes in and encrypts all your music, picture and document files so they disappear and if you try to run a virus removal program to fix the problem, it actually causes irreversible damage to those files so that they cannot be recovered. So if you are like me, and your work and family memories have all become digital… You need to start considering how you’re going to protect your digital treasures from permanent loss.

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Intel Video-Why SSD's are a smart upgrade

This is a great video describing why Intel’s SSD’s are a great replacement to your workstation and notebook drives. Speed, increased battery life and drive reliability are the some of the main reasons to change out your laptop’s drives. Increased productivity because of quicker data access on your desktop is the primary reason I would suggest an upgrade on your desktop.

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