Small Tech Notes

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iPhone 3.1 update alert

Apple has released an update for the iPhone. However, this new version (3.1) will break connectivity between the phone and your Exchange server if you have an older model. Please do not update your iPhone until we issue the all-clear. Older model iPhones are anything that is not 3GS – […]

For the Student

The following article comes from one of Microsoft’s blog announcing a deep discount program for college and university students that would like to start using Windows 7. Instead of $119.99 it’s only $29.99. Also don’t forget about the Ultimate Steal deal for Microsoft Office: http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx This offer is good for […]

Buy a Safe Phone

The environmental working group is out with a very large study on which phones emit how much radiation. While somewhat controversial on whether or not the radiation emitted will cause you any harm, I don’t think that there can be any argument that less radiation is better than more. As […]

Search Engine Ranking

There are new ways in which search engines are ranking their results. One of these is by the number of reviews that readers have posted. I thought that we should give this a try. We can then report the results to you and if they are good, you can do […]

Back on the old phone number

Nothing like a little bit of chaos on Monday morning. We are back on our old phone number: 248-850-8616 Someone over at Comcast heard my pleas of “why oh why do we have to switch phone numbers when our office moves 5 miles”. After getting settled in with our new […]

Free Software

I have some Not For Resale software available. These are only available to our contract clients. First come, first serve. Virtual Server 2005 Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition Visio Professional 2003 System Management Server 2003 Plus pack for Windows XP If you would like one of these please let […]

New Office Phone Number

The move to the new office is pretty much complete. There’s the bar to build yet, boxes to unpack…but we have desks, Internet access, carpeting, computers, printers and phones so it’s a real working office at this point. In this move we discovered some Interesting things. We learned a lot […]

Office 2010 Technical Preview

We’re engaged in the technical preview of Office 2010. It’s obviously scheduled for release sometime next year. This technical preview is a little different for us, in that it’s not NDA. It has been released to only a few people but we’re allowed to talk about it. It’s a nice […]