Small Tech Notes

512 posts

We have moved

We have a new mailing address. The new address is: Harbor Computer Services 29488 Woodward Ave #450 Royal Oak, MI 48073   Please make a note of it and direct all future deliveries to this address.

Whose the safest of them all? Michigan

According to NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) Michigan is the top ranked State for weather safety. Now I don’t know which of you can use this fact in your marketing but someone should. In fact, I’m going to send a copy to the Governor. In 2007 Michigan was the lone […]

Windows Home Server…not just for houses

Last year Microsoft released a new product called Windows Home Server. We saw the potential immediately for this really cool new mini-server and offered it to solve some immediate problems for a few our smaller clients. Here’s what Windows Home Server can do for businesses: Provide a place to store […]

HCS Wins MS Partner Award

Today we were informed that Microsoft has chosen to recognize us for our outstanding growth in the last quarter of 2008. Everyone here pulled together to make that happen and it was certainly a lot of work. Congratulations!! Harbor Computer Service is being recognized as the winner of the Heartland […]

The Dell Outlet

Shopping at outlet stores is an excellent way to save money and the Dell Outlet is no exception. You never know what’s going to be there, there are no custom builds and if you don’t buy it right now it’ll be gone in 15 minutes but you’ll save about 30% […]

Alert: Conflicker and AntiVirus2009

There are currently 2 nasty infections going around for which we have just implemented an additional security measure to protect you from. Conflicker is a worm. A worm travels from computer to computer and infection occurs without intervention from the user. This worm takes advantage of machines that are  not […]

“the cloud is broken”

To steal a phrase, “the cloud is broken”. Or rather it was broken yesterday…all day. We’ve been users of Quickbooks Online edition since its release back in 2002, I think. When I called in a couple of days ago to add another company to our account, the rep said “wow, […]

Go Green!

Being an MSU grad I love to say that, especially if there are UoM people around. Even better if they are football fans. :) But this is a discussion about saving money. We’re going to have lots of these this year. The kick off was in December when I let […]

Blackberry Storm

Rarely do we come out and say, don’t do this. But this case we need to make an exception. The exception is Blackberry. While they make a great Enterprise phone solution and a pretty darn good single phone solution, they really don’t have a good small business solution. They have […]