The danger of having a single computer for personal and business. (Or what I like to call techno-cross-contamination) What happens when you work for a company and lose your job? The attached Wall Street Journal article talks about people who work for decades for a company only to find out that when the IT staff…
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Netbook with 3G Cell Phone Support
A NetBook with 3G?!?! – OK, I’d love this deal if it was with Verizon Wireless, but I still might bite. Now through May 31, buy the Acer Aspire 10’ Netbook (1 Gig RAM, 160 Gig HD, Windows XP) for $429 - $250 instant rebate IF you sign up for $60/mon AT&T wireless data service…
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Update Your Antivirus Program
Antivirus Updates. Make sure your antivirus program is updated. If you use any of the ones I recommend, AVG or Avast!, make sure that you’re on AVG 8.5 or Avast! 4.8.1335. Even though AVG might have popped up saying, too bad, you need to pay, it’s not true, and every time they do this it…
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Online Backups
Another plea for online backup. Dunwoody PC still believes that an online backup is the safest place for your data. We recommend Carbonite. They back up, automatically, all your personal data to the internet. Unlimited storage capacity for 1 computer, $54.95/year. Only two negatives, no video file backup and you can’t back up your external…
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Preventative Maintenance
Residential Customer Preventative Maintenance (or “Pay Dunwoody PC a little now, instead of a lot later”) – For $99/year for the first computer, $49/year each additional computer, we will come to your home 2 times a year and provide the following services: Check Antivirus, Windows Updates, Wireless Encryption, Backups, Clean Temporary Files Recommend Product Updates,…
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How To Disable Gmail Spam Filter
I, and a few of my clients use Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows mail to frontend Gmail. One of my clients said "hey, why can't my wife email me?" I did some searching and found that Gmail had filtered the emails and marked them as SPAM. Here's how to fix it. Log into your gmail…
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