Harbor joined the Lenovo partner team earlier this year after I went to a show in Florida and had an opportunity to put my hands on the new products in a small environment of 20 IT firms and about 5 Lenovo VP and upper Management types. I made some great […]
Small Tech Notes
Eating your own dog food is a phrase that IT people use that means, using the products you recommend. There’s a verb for this too; it’s dogfooding. Dogfooding happens when we are testing something in production to see if it’s going to be worth mentioning to you or not. At […]
I’ve been conducting an experiment on my email recently. The experiment was to determine if unsubscribing from mail I don’t want worked or didn’t work. It worked! I’m now getting a lot less mail that I’m not interested in. Why unsubscribe? The Can Spam Act paved a two-way street for […]
Smaller businesses are now the #1 target for online banking theft. Your banking credentials are obtained through malware or social engineering or brute force username/password combination attempts. Here’s the rub: You aren’t insured against theft from online banking transactions. You money is just gone. Meanwhile banks are encouraging all of […]
Seems that recently all of the articles are telling business owners to stop buying PC’s and let their employees buy them instead. I even saw that the AICPA (CPA’s association) was holding continuing education where the whole day was dedicated to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and Cloud. Of course […]
Windows 8 has been getting a bunch of bad press for removing the Start button from the desktop and turning it into a full screen menu. But I have a feeling that it is from media that hasn’t tried it yet. I mean not having a start button sounds horrific. […]
I’m a happy owner of a Microsoft Surface running Windows RT. You may have seen it. It’s been on near constant tour as my technicians get requests to see it. I had to get mine from a Microsoft store in Texas but now they are available from BestBuy and Staples […]
I’m pleased to announce that Ted has been promoted to the position of Technical Manager. Ted has been with Harbor for a number of years now and his experience in managing clients and providing great consulting advice is what makes him the ideal candidate for this position. You will notice […]
Two of my friends were called by “Microsoft” this week. Be on the lookout for a call from “Microsoft” because it’s a scam. I think you should laugh at them, as Mitch did. Excerpt from The World According to Mitch, below. “I knew something was fishy when the phone rang […]
Yahoo and Evernote have both been hacked. Usernames and passwords are compromised at both services. This means that the bad guys have your username and password. You need to go to the website and change your password immediately If you have used that password on ANY other accounts you need […]