Small Tech Notes

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Love a Local Business Grants Available

Intuit is giving small grants to local businesses. Why not you?   http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/?cid=ad120x60 Help us find local businesses that deserve some love – in the form of a $5,000 small business grant. Each month, five local businesses will be randomly selected to receive $1,000 small business grants. Based on the […]

Incompatible Quickbooks 2009 Update Coming

Heads up to our Accounting clients, Intuit is about to release an update to Quickbooks 2009 that is not backwards compatible. That means that all of your customers will have to be at level of update too. Here are the details from Intuit. QuickBooks 2009 Release 9 (R9) Won’t Be […]

New Backup Option

Over the summer several of our clients helped us beta test a revolutionary backup system. Through their feedback and our experience with the product, we helped the development team at Symform fine tune, debug and add some new features to make it the best off-site backup solution. I really appreciated […]

Free Outlook 2007 Training

http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC101000901033 Each last from between 20 and 50 minutes and is a short video on how to use a specific feature or perform a task. Below is just a sample, there are many more courses than just these. Not following us on Twitter yet? Do it. http://twitter.com/harborcomputer Not a member […]

Understanding Social Media

Here’s a copy of the powerpoint that I did on Understanding Social Media. This presentation is for people that don’t understand what it is, why they want to use it and what impact it is having on doing business. We had 12 people attend the webinar. If you missed it […]

We’re Using Social Media

A few months back I starting using Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Fan pages, Facebook groups and LinkedIN.  Recently I added Posterous and SocialOOMPH to help me manage our social media and now it’s is sucking less time from my day and actually starting to add bring in client leads. It’s working […]

When to choose a Netbook or Mini

Small computers are all the rage. Everyone thinks that they want one but before you go out and make the purchase you really need to stop and think whether this mini-computer is going to do what you need. What NetBooks are and are good at: They are a small laptop […]

HotMail and FaceBook compromised

HotMail: If you have a hotmail account, please go there now and change your password. Thousands of hotmail passwords have been farmed. Here’s now: <copied from ask-leo.com> First login to your Windows Live Hotmail account, and then click the Options link in the upper right: And then at the bottom […]

HP DesignJet Sale

In the Inbox this morning is an email from Hewlett Packard regarding discounts on new DesignJets for loyal customers. Many of our clients have aging HP DesignJets, so if you were thinking about upgrading yours now might be the time. HP rarely puts anything on sale.   Trade up today […]