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Has Your Email Account Been Hijacked?
» by Randy Knowles April 4, 2011 at 11:13 am » Comments (1)
Hello everyone, The other day I was at a clients house and she told me an all too familiar story concerning her email account: All of her contacts were receiving emails from ...more »How I Cloned A Large Hard Drive To A Smaller Hard Drive
» by Randy Knowles March 12, 2011 at 12:41 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, The other day I picked up a computer from a client that had a bad hard drive. The 500GB hard drive was failing fast and I wanted to ...more »Do You Have A Small Business? Have You Considered Google Apps?
» by Randy Knowles February 24, 2011 at 8:58 am » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, If you own a small business you will want your employees to have email access, access to a calendar, access to contacts and tasks, mobile and desktop access to ...more »Hard Drive Won’t Boot? You Don’t Have To Lose Your Data!
» by Randy Knowles February 9, 2011 at 9:41 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, Sooner or later your hard drive is going to fail by not booting into your Operating System. Just because the drive will no longer boot up doesn't mean that ...more »Have You Considered RAID 1 As A Backup Strategy?
» by Randy Knowles February 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, As a computer technician I can't tell you how many times I have been called by clients who have lost all of their data because they have neglected to ...more »5 More “Scary” Things About Facebook
» by Randy Knowles January 30, 2011 at 2:08 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, In this post (way back in October of 2009) I listed ten "scary" things about Facebook. Now, over a year later I would like to list a few more. ...more »You Really Should “Lose Your Cookies”
» by Randy Knowles July 6, 2010 at 9:40 pm » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, Most people have heard about common browser cookies. A cookie is just one or more pieces of information stored as text strings (little text files) on your ...more »Do You Really Need Microsoft’s Security Updates?
» by Randy Knowles May 31, 2010 at 7:27 am » Comments (4)
Hello everyone, Many of the people in my area of the country don't always apply the Microsoft Security Updates (Patches). So that they may better understand, this is what I tell ...more »Take A Walk On the Internet “Wild Side” (And Stay Totally Safe)
» by Randy Knowles May 21, 2010 at 6:38 am » Comments (1)
Hello everyone, Do you ever have a desire or need to visit the more "dangerous" places on the Internet? You know -Â places like peer-to-peer file sharing networks, BitTorrent sites, and ...more »How To Remove Fake Security Software
» by Randy Knowles April 28, 2010 at 7:01 am » Comments (0)
Hello everyone, In my last post I told you how not to be fooled by any of the many rogue viruses (phony antivirus/security software) that are currently plaguing computers everywhere. If however ...more »