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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Please accept our sincere holiday well wishes for a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Testimonial Van Wart Construction

Recently I received an Email from Toni Van Wart of Van Wart Construction. This Email absolutely made my day. I asked her for permission to post it on our website as a testimonial and I did not change a word because the message is wonderful as is: "I want you to know Mike saved my bacon again this am, within minutes. I’ve been trying to think of a way to verbalize how much  we rely on Managed Solutions and how much we trust and appreciate you. We feel you guys are not just one of our vendors b...

Possible Email Outage

12/18/2009 1407 Pacific - Our hosting provider is having issues with one of their data centers and it may affect some of our clients Exchange or Email accounts. We will update you as soon as more information is available. 12/18/2009 1414 Pacific - Services have been restored, if you note any lingering issues please contact us.

Droid Must Have Task Manager Application

The first application you should download is one of the Task Manager apps. These applications allow you to kill extra programs that you do not want running or failed applications that might have hung or crashed. I've only seen the latter once but it was nice to be able to stop it without resetting my phone. The kill function is very responsive, similar to a Unix type environment.

Droid Does Wifi Analysis for Free

Do not waste your money on expensive Wifi Analyzer hardware and software just pickup a Droid phone and download the Wifi Analyzer utility for free. This tool is useful in identifying networks that overlap and will allow you to determine if you've made the right decisions about the channel your wireless device is using. You can quickly and easily see if there is a strong wifi signal that overlaps yours. Unlike my example you should perform this analysis where you intend to USE your wifi client de...

Warning Facebook Phishing Email

Today I noticed a peculiar Email message from Facebook in my Quarantine. A quick investigation confirmed what I had suspected, it was a phishing attempt to compromise my Facebook account or other personal information. This video demonstrates what this message looked like and how the URL in the link gave away that it was not Facebook but in fact a .me.uk address:

PCI Slots A Quick Visual Guide

This will no doubt be valuable to someone one day. I often neglect to save older data and when I come across something it's off to Google I go to search for information.

Windows 7 is Ready for Business

It has been a long time since we’ve recommended an initial release of a Microsoft Operating system for business use but we’ve reached that plateau again with Windows 7. We are encouraging our clients to implement Windows 7 when replacing existing systems. There are of course always exceptions to this recommendation, the most important being resource intensive older software applications such as design and cad software. They need to be evaluated for compatibility prior to making the shift. Your b...