Archives for 2009

Merry Christmas and a belated Happy Hanukkah to all of my fantastic clients! We had a great year and I’m looking forward to serving you all in the new year. FYI, we will be open on the week of Monday, Dec 28th 2009, but will be closed on New Years day. Eddie, the Golden Retriever […]

Over the last few weeks, the amount of service calls I have received regarding malicious software infections have been a lot higher than usual. It seems like the creators of various rogueware applications that pretend to be security software are cashing in on the holiday surge in spending. This has been a real cause for […]

This is just a quick little post to inform you that Apple is giving away a free holiday music compilation on the iTunes Music Store. Check out the list of songs/artists here.

Here are some great products no matter which way you look at it. But for this article’s sake, we’re listing 2 items in each category. A low priced item and a high priced item. The only prerequisite is that they are well received items no matter what the cost, so depending on your budget, you […]

I’m sure a lot of my less technical customers will read that title and not truly understand what that means. Let me try to explain what a DNS Server is and does in the simplest terms. A DNS server is like a GPS system for the internet. You type in a website address in your […]

A while back a customer of mine asked me about the legitimacy of the Video Professor. For those of you who don’t know, the Video Professor is a series of computer training videos that are heavily advertised here in Charleston on TV, and more recently through popular social media sites Facebook.com and Myspace.com. My customer […]

That’s right, if you are a Charleston area Realtor and you show a beautiful townhouse (133 Darcy Avenue in Goose Creek) to a qualified buyer between Nov. 17th and December 17th, 2009, you will automatically be entered into a drawing for a free service call from Charleston Tech Support! Check out SCrelocators.com for the details.

Newsweek blogger Daniel Lyons has an interesing article about the security woes of Facebook. I have long been spreading the word to my customers about the security problems of social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, & Twitter. Much like email, they have become a necessity in the lives of many of us who depend on […]

Every time I need to find one of these I always end up searching for the key combinations to write the special characters and in an effort to save time for you (and myself), I’m going to include the most common ones here. For Microsoft Windows: Note: Use all this codes with the combination of […]

MakeUsOf.com, which according to their site is a daily blog that features cool websites, computer tips, and downloads that make you more productive, has a collection of really useful “How-To” guides in PDF format that you can freely download on them. Of particular interest is the Apple Snow Leopard based Mac Manual, the computer networks […]