Storm Trojan Blows In

January 24, 2007

If you’re a Mac user and had Michael Tsai’s SpamSieve installed, you likely weren’t affected by the latest e-mail trojan masquerading as a video clip. Our own computers registered 15 of these messages stopped by the spam filter. Unlike many computer techs, I won’t say “don’t open e-mail attachments.” But I’m tempted to. I suppose [...]

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Upgrading from Windows XP to Vista

January 24, 2007

Here we are less than a week away from the release of Windows Vista (well, for consumers, that is—business users were blessed two months ago) and PCMag.com has an article on what you need to know to do an in-place upgrade from Windows XP to Vista. Of course, this assumes that your system can handle [...]

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Staples Drops HP, Epson Compatibles

January 4, 2007

According to a report by Lyra Research, “Staples is expected to remove all its Staples-branded HP ink and toner cartridges from retail stores early in the first quarter of this year [2007], and the same fate may also be planned for Staples-branded Epson compatibles.” Will Office Depot, OfficeMax and other big office supply retailers follow [...]

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Two Sub-$300 Color Laser Printers

December 26, 2006

Low-cost color printers have previously been found only in the ranks of inkjet printers, but two recent arrivals have brought that distinction to laser printers. The Konica Minolta magicolor 2500W and the HP Color LaserJet 1600 couldn’t be more different. The former is a five-page-per-minute printer (in color), the latter is an eight-page-per-minute-printer. However, when [...]

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OfficeJet 7410: Disposable?

December 7, 2006

Well, apparently the bar on disposable printers has been raised. After talking to Hewlett-Packard today, I found that a $500 printer is now not worth being fixed. My customer’s OfficeJet 7410—still a currently-shipping model—would be replaced by HP if it was still under warranty, but as it is not, HP will not even repair the [...]

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Vista Unleashed!

December 1, 2006

The day has finally arrived, and Microsoft’s first operating system in five years has been released, although only to business customers. (The consumer version of Windows Vista will be released on January 30, 2007.) In addition, the latest version of Microsoft’s productivity suite, Office 2007, was released, replacing Office 2003. With five different versions of [...]

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Your Best Idea?

November 1, 2006

“Got a great business idea? Then you could win free retail space in New York City and $100,000 to get your business started.” As good as that sounds, this post is to let you know that Microsoft is giving away free copies of Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, whether or not you sign up for [...]

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Security Suite Smackdown

October 18, 2006

PC Magazine has reviewed eight of the leading security suites in a must read for anyone considering buying an all-in-one security solution. As a surprise to me, PC Mag rated Norton Internet Security 2007 ranked high on their list; I find that Norton accounts for many of my customers’ slow computers&mash;and misses many viruses that [...]

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Just Say No!

September 16, 2006

Today yet another attack has been found against Microsoft Internet Explorer that turns unprotected computers into unwilling slaves of the attacker, hijacking them to become members of massive bot networks. No action is required on the user’s part is required, other than surfing to a malicious website. The exploit is amplified because it’s a zero-day [...]

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Images from A to Z

August 25, 2006

Can’t find the photo you need for that marketing piece? Need more images than Microsoft Office provides for Word and Publisher? Look no further than iStockphoto. I’ve used iStockphoto for graphic elements for websites (those icons at the top of the page are from iStockphoto) and for photos and clip art for flyers, postcards and [...]

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