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Jesse Black, of Yellow Crayon Computer Services submitted this tip below to the OCCA (Oregon Computer Consulatants Association) membership list. I also got a customer emails asking me how to fix this, so I thought I’d post Jesse’s tip below. This is another reason why, on the West Side of Portland, I refer my all of my home computer repair and peer to peer networking phone calls to Jesse Black, at 971-645-1139. Tell him Scott sent ya! |
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How often are you bombarded by emails, with your In-Box filling up faster than you can even reply? Item after item seems to take priority throughout the day, and you’re lucky to even read all your email, much less act on it or reply to it, right? Well try this tip to give yourself some breathing room… |
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The Oregonian is reporting today that a lawsuit is pending over the theft of 365,000 patient records. Besides being a major HIPAA problem, this is just gross negligence, and now they’ll pay for it financially. Are your backups safe from prying eyes? Are you even backing up? Data gets lost, stolen or destroyed every day. |
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Yahoo search marketing has a great article here that explains what to look for and think about when you’re hiring a web designer. Give it a read before you hire a web designer for your next project… |
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I write a lot of articles. The best way to get those articles found on the internet is to submit them to the major article directories, who in turn provide the content for others to legally use on their website. This goves your website visibility and inbound links, establishing you as an expert. |
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I got an email this morning telling me that Winpatrol was not helping with their Spam, and they were still getting a lot. I explained that Winpatrol is not for spam, but did refer them to Spam Arrest. Spam Arrest will stop 100% of your spam, guaranteed, for up to 5 email addresses, and they’ll even give you a 30 day free trial! |
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Almost 5 years ago, I wrote an article called “How to call tech support”, and I still think it’s relevant. However, there’s one thing I left out. If I were writing it today, I would add a section about email communication. So…I’ve added that portion here, and added it to the full article as well… E-mailing tech support |
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Lots of people saw the spyware show on our local Portland TV Station KGW. I stayed at KGW TV station after the segment aired answering chat questions for nearly two hours. There sure was a lot of interest, and my wrists are still sore! And here’s my critique - |
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*update - Now at 6pm, not 5pm for those that care! The spyware news story that I assisted with this summer will be airing tonight at 5pm on KGW News 8. The news director phoned me yesterday and asked if I would do an online chat session immediately following the story. That should be kind of neat, and I’ll be interested to see how much traffic my site gets tonight… |
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What’s Slingbox? Or is it Sling Box with two words? Nope - one word. Slingbox. It apparently lets you watch TV while you’re not home. Wow, just what my kids need… Actually, it’s pretty slick. Their website says this… |
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When installing any scripts on your domain, you may get an error saying something like this - FTP’d to it with your FTP software, right click, go to CHMOD and enable the needed check boxes for read, write and execute. Now it’s writable. |
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Here’s a quick tip to be more productive at your desk… When I open my email program in the morning, my new email does not pour in until I ask for it with the “send and receive” button. This gives me a chance to look through everything critical in my in box from the day before. |
