Disaster Avoidance 105 – Regular Checkups I have written about computer lifecycles, external backup drives and online backup systems, destroying old hard drives for home and office users, creating restore disks for disaster recovery and a few other topics of interest; well I think it’s interesting… Sometimes I get asked why a computer failed and…
Disaster Avoidance 104 – Creating Restore/Recovery Disks In the ongoing world of computer disasters, there is one major action that many forget to do. It’s rather simple, takes a little time, and prevents the cost of having to buy this AGAIN from the manufacturer. RECOVERY DISKS. Yup, the simple action of buying a few DVDs…
Equifax – What You Need to Know!! The story broke last week that Equifax, one of the major three credit reporting agencies in the U.S., was hacked. Well not just hacked…they stole lots of data. 143 million customers have been affected, with an unknown financial toll for those affected. That’s HALF of the population of…
Smart Toys & Privacy – Are You At Risk? Two weeks ago some nutcase attempted to kidnap a 9 year old girl at Gelson’s in Rancho Mirage. He didn’t succeed when the store employees and the mom held onto the girl. He was caught after a police chase. That’s just downright crazy and very scary.…
Disaster Avoidance 103 – Data Destruction A number of years ago, I had handed a non-working phone back in a warranty exchange. It was not working and I thought nothing of it. It did turn on but I could not get it to connect to the service I was signed up for. Shortly afterwards I…
Smart Toys & Privacy – Are You At Risk? 30 years. That’s how long I have been in the computer business. In that time, I have seen many products come and go, companies absorb smaller companies and the change of the computer retailer from a specialty store into a commodity dealer. Remember WordPerfect? I have…
When I first moved to the Coachella Valley in 2004, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Mac OS 10.4 were the primary operating systems to be found on most client computers. Over the course of nearly 13 years here in the desert, I have helped many clients with their computer needs. Laptops, desktops, tablet and phones…
Heads Up! Fake Apple Email!! This morning I got an official looking email that appeared to be from Apple. When I woke up, it was on my iPhone and this is what is looked like: It reporting that someone had signed in using my ID from an iPhone 6s as you can see in the…
Facebook App Permissions: You Gave Away The Farm! What Celebrity do you look like? What’s your Ghetto name? What color represents your personality? 95% of the people won’t get this right! These little quizzes and “tests” are rampant on Facebook. So is the cloning of accounts. What’s the connection? When these quizzes and such are…
Incipio Cases – Protecting Your Investment! I have run the gamut of cases over the years having various smartphones for my business. I also don’t just write a review because some manufacturer sent me products to use. I actually put them through the wringer to make sure that MY reputation and integrity is protected. Really.…
