This article might sound very technical to most of you but I hope that you will bear with me and read it through because the concepts are very important. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/ Basically, the “hackers” liked his Twitter handle, @mat. So they found his email address mat@gmail.com, and went to Gmail to […]
Small Tech Notes
Once upon a time a cloud was a fluffy white thing in the sky, a dark grumbling rain bringer or a rapidly rotating vortex of destruction and chaos. Today The Cloud is a style of computer networking that leverages the Internet to provide additional mobility and access to data with […]
Shanewaz joined Harbor about 3 months ago. You might be wondering how to pronounce is name. I did. It’s not as bad as it looks. It’s Shan-Waz. He came to us from the Oakland University IT department. Shanewaz will be handling all maintenance activities for us. These are the things […]
I read an article recently that claimed that most people do not realize that they are not protected from unauthorized withdrawals from accounts where they have enabled online banking. Think a fraudulent withdrawal of funds to your commercial or business banking account is limited to $50, like a fraudulent credit […]
We’re seeing signs that Windows 8 is coming in for a landing. My guess and this is only a guess is that we’ll see it available for purchase in 30-90 days. Here are the signs: From this point forward every new computer is going to come with a coupon for […]
A few short updates for you: MAC Users: A flood of new viruses is coming down the pipe to MAC users. Long exempt from hackers because there was simply not enough money it in, finally enough MACs are in use that the magic critical mass has been reached and hackers […]
It’s not often that you get pictured as a Super Hero. That graphic above is by Michele Ragusa of Cisco and she’s having fun with her picks for the most influential IT Professionals working in the SMB (small and medium business) sector. I’m honored to be on her special list. […]
Microsoft has announced a new price schedule for the cloud based Office 365 product. Office 365 includes Email, SharePoint, Instant Messaging and Online Meetings. It was $10 a month per person. The new price is $8 per month per person. If you are already a customer with Office 365 you […]
We have just been made aware of a new vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP is the protocol that is used for remote access to computers. If you access your computer from home, then you are using RDP. If you access your computer with your iPAD, then you […]
Spring is in the air (hasn’t it been since December?) and it’s time to clean out the old computer equipment that has collected dust in the closet. The price is gold is sky high. That’s good news for computer equipment recycling. Whereas previously we had to pay to get business […]