by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Once you’ve gone through a few computers, you probably have more than a few old hard drives lying around. You don’t have to let them go to waste, though! Here’s how to combine multiple hard drives into one, huge volume that’ll hold just about...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Macs are notoriously hard to upgrade, but it’s possible to eke out a performance boost pretty easily with a few simple upgrades you can do yourself. While you can’t go tossing a high end graphics card into your iMac, you can do a few other things to speed...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals, Web Hosting
from the keeping-the-lights-on dept. There has been worldwide (all locations) total outage of storage in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Apparently “Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 27, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The last update of Flash Player was just two weeks ago and now it’s being updated again – this time to block exploits that target the Firefox browser. The new advisory points to three fixes in the update, two involved in blocking the Firefox exploit and one...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 27, 2013 | HARDWARE, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
HTC America and the US Federal Trade Commission have settled over charges brought by the FTC that HTC failed to secure millions of its smartphones and tablets. As part of the settlement, HTC America will now have to develop and release software patches for...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 27, 2013 | Blog Entry, GMAIL, Technical Support, Technicals
Maintaining inbox zero and dealing with old emails takes work (for some, too much work!). This Google Apps script lightens the load a bit by automatically archiving or deleting old emails that are cluttering your inbox, based on a schedule you set. Whipped up by John...