Webcam Test – Oak and Main in Lebanon, OR.
What a beautiful day to test web cam and try out a “free” streaming service for a few hours. Now showing intersection at Oak and S. Main St outside of office. Nothing is for free so sorry about the commercials before the live feed starts. Will be trying out a couple different setups until we get one that feels right.
There’s a great article recently posted over at print4pay Hotel’s “MFP Solutions Blog” highlighting the printer comparison tool we recently completed for Pahoda Image Products.
The article refers to a benefit your website can provide and that is increasing your customer service. In this case, as they well put it, answering your customers’ questions via your website can prevent your customer from getting it answered from another website. Remember, we want your customers to stick to your website.
The full article and links for the comparison tool are here: http://mfpsolutions.blogspot.com/2012/01/selling-copiers-mfps-add-value-to-you.html
And if you are wanting a free printer/copier comparison widget for your website, instructions and code snippets are here: http://laserprintercenter.com/code-snippets-for-printer-comparison-widget
Avoid Internet Fraud
I have a few items out on the net for sale on ebay, Facebook Marketplace, and Craigslist. The other day the following inquiry about one of the items for sale came through:
“I will like to purchase this item is it available for sales let me know and what is the condition of the item send me mail concerning the item to odunminiyi@aim.com with mode of payment”
Although suspicious, I sent them the process to place their order and how to pay along with some additional information about the product. As suspected, they come back with the classic scenario where they are purchasing for a client and will be using their own shipping company that will come by and pick up the item as well as the payment will be more than the asking price for the item:
“I want you to realize that i’m a serious buyer and i told you in my previous mail that i’m purchasing this item on behalf of my client.And my client will be using a certified check as the mode of payment. But the issue is that the amount on the check/money order is more than your item fee.I’ll take care of shipping myself with my shipping company account# they will come pick up at your address . So i now want you to promise me that as soon as you receive the check, you’l only deduct the money for the item and western union the balance immediately. I want you to tell me that you’re trustworthy. If you can, i want you to get back to me with your full name and address so that i can give to my client to mail you other payment. “
Hopefully, everyone knows what happens next in this scenario right? They send a check, we wire them the balance, and the check turns out to be no good. There’s plenty already written about this and so we direct you to resources on this subject:
Invest some time into learning about how to avoid internet fraud.
What would happen to your business if the CEO’s hard drive crashes or you accidentally spill coffee on a laptop? Losing or damaging a computer is not always preventable, but losing data is preventable.
Finally, an easy way to secure the critical information that resides on your desktops and laptops.
Keep in mind that 70% of data losses are due to events beyond user control (“The Cost of Lost Data”, David M. Smith, PhD. Pepperdine University, http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/033/dataloss.html)
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We are please to offer a fast, convenient, and accurate order service for printer supplies such as ink cartridges and toner cartridges. Watch a quick demo here:
We are pleased to offer unlimited, online encrypted backups of your PC hard drive. Your emails, photos, files, etc are backed up off-site in redundant, highly reliable systems. Should your hard drive fail, computer get stolen, or a massive “user” error cause your data to be lost, take comfort in knowing that your files can be restored in only a few clicks. To order installation and archive service, please call or email to schedule your system backup.
When looking to implement or outsource Microsoft Exchange, there are several key factors to consider. Is the service reliable? Are there engineers on standby 24×7 in case a server goes down? Does the service offer the full benefits of Exchange?
Reliability, Uptime and 24/7 Monitoring and Management
We offer 99.999 percent uptime, which means less than six minutes of downtime a year, as well as the industry’s first 100 percent data protection guarantee.
Our customer’s data is replicated in real-time twice in one data center and at speed-of-wire a third time to another of our geographically dispersed data centers. For added protection and rapid point-in-time restores, regular database “snapshots” are taken in each data center. This architecture protects customer data in the event of hardware failure, database corruption or even a catastrophic data center loss. Because data is replicated across “live” working data centers, customer access to the full functionality of their Exchange environment in the event of a disaster can be restored in a timely manner.
Add-on Features
We offer a complete range of add-on features including hosted BlackBerry and ActiveSync for Windows mobile devices so you can instantly activate email service for your handheld. Rather than spending thousands of dollars on your own server, you can use our managed service for just a few dollars a month.
You can also add SharePoint 3.0 for document collaboration; Office Communications Server 2007 for increased productivity through secure instant messaging; and file sharing and archiving – from simple message journaling to keep an exact copy of all your message, to compliant archiving, which fulfills regulatory requirements from the main U.S. regulations—HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, SEC, FINRA and FRCP as well as other state/federal requirements).
PC or Mac
Many Exchange hosting companies do not offer both Outlook (for PC) and Entourage (for Mac) support. We offer a free download of both, so your staff can use either PCs or Macs, or both. We also offer free Outlook Web Access which allows your users the ability to access their email online from anywhere in the world.
Class on Saturday was a success measured by good feedback from the few attendees. Looking forward to offering it again in the near future and will definitely schedule more this spring. There’s so much going on in tech, online, and in the real world. It’s imperative these days to stay up to speed where these three universes intersect. Throw into the mix the dangers and threats of viruses, mean people, and faulty technology and suddenly navigating the sea of information that’s the Web can be intimidating and sometimes harmful. Teaching naturally requires the knowledge to begin with and the art and skill of delivering information to others. But the preparation for a class is both challenging and immensely beneficial as it teaches me even more. I’d almost forgot from my former teaching days how much I learn when preparing for a class. It’s simply great. If you missed the class and would like to attend one in the future, please email me.
