The Power of Mobile – What Is All This Hype About?
It seems smartphones these days are more abundant, and being utilized by a broader range of people than the most basic desktop/laptops.
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How to have the perfect Skype experience
Skype can be an engaging and incredible experience, but a lot of it depends on how it is used. Skype has been a disruptor to telecommunications worldwide. It first started becoming an important tool to me in 2003 when it launched. My wife and I lived in Bolivia at the time, with extended family scattered…
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Another Disaster Averted – Thanks to System Monitoring and the NerdCare Support Team!
This past weekend, one of our Nerds, Daryl Siemens (London, ON) was camping with his family, when he got an alert from the NerdCare Support Team that a hard drive was failing.
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Mail Security: Port 587
Our team continues to work at further building stability and security into everything we do. Accordingly, we are going to take the next step in increasing the security our mail services. When email is sent through a non-secured connection, this means that your username, password and entire email contents are being sent in plain-text, making…
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Securely Accessing your Passwords in an Internet Cafe
On a recent trip, I had a sudden emergency need to access a critical system back home, but I didn’t have any computing technology with me. I found an Internet cafe on a backstreet, where no one spoke English, but was able to rent a computer for a 1/2 hour by flashing some Euros. Once…
DetailsAnnual Nerds On Site Gathering (NerdFest) Event at Sheridan College Featured in Local Article
Nerds from across North America gathered for four days at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario for our annual NerdFest, which combines training, presentations, and nerdy conversations!
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Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars Using Extraordinary Technology and NASA Shares it Live Online
Last night (or early this morning, depending on where you live), NASA scientists and engineers successfully landed the Curiosity rover on Mars 350 million miles from Earth at a speed of 13,000 MPH, and landed it perfectly using a jet-fired hover crane, which lowered a nuclear-powered 1 ton robot onto the surface of Mars. NASA…
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Email attachments – is there a better way?
It seems such a short time ago that our productivity was boosted as we quickly reached a stage where just about any document could be emailed to vendors, clients or collaborators. Now that we all do this, we’re recognizing the fragmentation it causes when a various participants in a project want to make changes, perhaps…
DetailsLet Us Take Care of System and Programs Updates for You So They Won't Nag You
We all hate seeing messages about program updates when we turn on our computers. Some of us are apprehensive about installing them, fearing they will break something. There are other times that we honestly can’t tell the difference that an update made and wonder what the point was. Usually these are cases of subtle changes or exploits that were patched “under the hood”.
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Many of Our Nerds Now Have Mobile Websites! Have You Checked Them Out?
Many of our Nerds around the world have had mobile websites created for themselves in recent weeks, making it easier than ever for our clients and people in our communities to quickly and easily get in touch with us and our worldwide team with a tap on their smartphone screens!
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