Before you hand over your old Treo to the local eBay shop or brother-in-law, read this article.
It’s important to properly wipe any confidential data. As mentioned, Blackberries make this pretty easy, but others have wipe options that are harder to find.
Check this site for your particular model.
Rumor has it that Cablevision is increasing its upstream speed for Boost customers from 2 to 5 megabits. This adds to its already impressive 30 megabits download speed.
To put this in perspective, a T-1 data circuit is 1.5 megabits whether uploading or downloading.
It’s impressive, but will your business actually use it? Only if youre transferring very large files. 650 megabytes of data (your typical CD) will shoot out this new cable offering in about 20 minutes. Great if you want to implement an offsite backup strategy.
The new speed is being rolled out across the tristate area and there’s no change to your monthly fee. We should have it within the next few weeks.
I’ve mentioned this in our Guerrilla Briefs, but it bears repeating: eBay is a great source for office supply store coupons!
Here’s an interesting review of a stack of antivirus products. My favorite, NOD32, makes a decent showing in detecting known viruses, but really shines in protecting against unknown threats, with a first place finish.
What’s surprising is the lead by AOL’s antivirus engine. They switched from McAfee over to the industry-leading Kaspersky, and now their product seems to catch everything in sight.
There’s nothing like a freshly delivered desktop to breathe new productivity into your workday. Unfortunately, companies like Dell are quick to accept a few bucks to load your brand new computer with completely unnecessary software. Much of my install time for new computers is removing this nonsense.
If you’ve just received a new computer, you may want to download the PC De-Crapifier and give it a whirl. It’ll help remove all that junk which, besides being unnecessary, is likely having a real impact on your system’s performance.
The Internet is not very good at English. In fact, if you hope to get anywhere, you need a service called “DNS,” which changes familar names like yahoo.com to numbers, such as 209.73.186.238.
This operation is handled by a DNS server, which is managed by your ISP. When it’s overloaded, you might think you were back on dialup. Web pages load slowly, or not at all.
Fortunately, you’re not tied to your ISP for DNS services. One company, OpenDNS, has started the charge of third-party DNS servers. Simply point to their servers and you’re on your way. I’ve solved at least one company’s performance issues with this service. It does have some added benefits, including correcting your spelling (www.google.co becomes www.google.com) and blocking you from going to addresses that are known phishing sites.
It’s a five minute process to switch over and requires no signup. Pay them a visit, and let us know if it improves your surfing.
This is decidedly low-tech, but very important to my customers’ overall security. As it turns out, most locks are painfully easy to open using a modified key called a bump key. Have a look at this article, and decide if new locks are merited in your office.