SubscribeWhen my family camped in Yellowstone National Park last month, we were camping in bear country.
Unfortunately, there have been some bad bear incidents in Yellowstone this summer.
A friend of mine let me borrow his bear spray for our trip. Bear spray is like personal-defense pepper spray, except it’s grizzly bear strength. I took the spray [...]
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Wifi in the wilderness
My family was in Yellowstone National Park last week, and we needed to find a wifi hotspot so that my daughter could log in and add some college classes to her fall class schedule.
We saw this and went to the Visitor Center with our laptop:
Only one problem. That little graphic sign doesn’t mean wifi.
It means [...]
Why you should backup all your license keys and install codes today
“I’m using an old version of QuickBooks, and my hard drive died today. QuickBooks won’t give me the install codes – they say they don’t support my version anymore, and I have to upgrade. But I don’t want to upgrade! I just want to reinstall my old version.”
I have this conversation with users all the [...]
How to Make a Great Password
You’ve been told a LOT of times that the world is a dangerous place, and that you should only use ’strong’ passwords for your accounting software, your email and social accounts, your online financial accounts…really all your accounts and apps that are supposed to be secure.
So you know what you OUGHT to do, but how [...]
Neglecting Your IT Can Cost You
I guest blogged for Smart Business, Stupid Business about a customer that had serious IT instabilities, but refused to address them. We had to repair their data a dozen times, but they never learned.
Read the story here.
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5 Ways to Bullet-proof your PC
5 easy and inexpensive ways to bullet-proof your PC.