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Our Phone Bill is $17.00!

Chris — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:51:47 +0000

There are a lot of reasons to switch to VoIP phones in your office, but the best one has to be the value that comes with SIP trunking. We prefer flowroute.com because of its ease of connection with Switchvox, and …

Creating Email Filters in Google Apps

Chris — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:12:50 +0000

It can be tough to keep track of the dozens of emails we receive each day, and important messages can easily be lost in the more routine emails the inundate our inboxes. In Gmail or Google Apps, you can create …

Zoho Creator – Custom Cloud Database Applications!

Chris — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:06:11 +0000

We’ve recently tried our hand at devleopment using Zoho Creator, a cloud-based custom database platform. Creator is an example of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), providing all of the nuts and bolts to create a customized series of forms, views, and reports that …

Home Energy Monitoring

Chris — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:16:53 +0000

I’ve recently been testing a few products that allow you to see your household energy usage in real-time. There are numerous possibilities for remote monitoring of household energy data, as well as home automation (think being able to control lights …

Windows 7 Malware on the Rise

Chris — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:11:40 +0000

Gone are the days of super-vulnerable Windows XP computers requiring constant babysitting, maintenance and cleanup. (well, mostly gone, we still see a few here and there). While there was definitely a lull of malware and virus removal after people started …

Google +1 Button has a flaw

Gimeti — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:39:31 +0000

I was playing around with Google’s new +1 Button and while reading the documents about the API one thing interested me is the <link> attribute. According to the documentation you can tell the API to use the current URI or …

Laptop Power Jack Replacement

Chris — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:49:28 +0000

We receive a lot of calls in the shop for broken power jacks on laptops. While many jacks can stand up to a lot of abuse, when you trip over your power cord, drop your laptop from the bed or …

Network Camera Demonstration

Chris — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:54:39 +0000

The video feed you see above is streaming live from a Network Camera installed on a construction site in Baltimore, Maryland. Network Cameras offer powerful remote monitoring capabilities, and can be easily viewed in a web browser from anywhere in …

How to remotely uninstall software?

Gimeti — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:51:27 +0000

There’s a lot of times when you just want to uninstall a piece of software without interrupting the end user, but unfortunately there isn’t an easy, out of the box way to do it. To uninstall software on a local …

Clearing Hundreds of Duplicate Events from a Google Calendar

Chris — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:13:50 +0000

The infinite loop gremlin strikes again! We deploy Google Apps for many of our clients. One of the big reasons we push it, is because without any extra servers, services, or expensive add-ons, it will sync email, contacts, and calendars …