The end of 2011 is rapidly approaching so I wanted to take a minute to thank one and all for the great year. Our customers have been wonderful. You guys are the very best to work with and we enjoy every minute it. This year, we have struggled to […]
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As a Microsoft MVP and a recent speaker on the Small Business Community Roadshow (13 cities around the Country – it was exhausting) I have been offered an opportunity to enter a local non-profit into an Extreme IT Makeover contest. This is sponsored by Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, who will […]
Yesterday starting about 12:30pm, the main data center for the spam, email and web hosting service provider that we recommend to all of you experienced a catastrophic failure. The initial problem was a power failure. This normally isn’t a big deal for a data center, since they are connected to […]
Yesterday Microsoft released a video showing a preview of Windows 8. This is the first time that a preview of the user interface has been released to the public. It’s a WOW. It’s also scary. It’s the kind of leap that we made when we went from Windows 3.1 to […]
This is the time of year when we take an extra moment to appreciate all of you, for your business, for your friendship, for being the wonderful people you are. Please enjoy the snacks that “santa” is about to bring you.
Harbor Computer Services has been getting a lot of attention lately. I’m not aware that we’ve changed anything, we just seem to be getting noticed. 2009 Microsoft regional VAR Growth Award 2010 World-wide Small Business Specialist of the Year Just now: At the SMBNation conference I was awarded SBSer of […]
Our anti-spam filters do a pretty good job of keeping junk out of your email box. But filtering is a cat and mouse game. The scammers and spammers want to get their message to you and work night and day to figure out how to get around filters. The good […]
Yesterday Microsoft re-awarded me as Most Valuable Professional for the 3rd year. As a self-employed person, there are really very few awards that you can attain that indicate that you are proceeding through your career successfully and the MVP is one of them. Getting an MVP feels kind of like […]
A large number of PDF documents are now infected opening them could give the attacker full control of your computer. The fix requires that an update be loaded for Acrobat Reader. We will be performing these updates for you during the next update cycle. Meanwhile, the infection is easily avoided […]
Back in March TJX Stores disclosed that 45.7 Million Credit card numbers and customer personal information was stolen. In addition 455,000 drivers license number were stolen. Today they released a statement not admitting fault but accepting all of the network and policy changes recommended by the federal agents investigation. (how’s […]