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Using a power strip in your kitchen to give yourself extra outlets for your new blender is a pureefectly good idea. Using a power strip to protect your important PC from electricity fluctuations is a shockingly bad idea. If you want the best protection for your equipment, then we recommend that you upgrade to an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) device.

Printers are a necessary evil. Evil, because nothing can bring out the worst in a person quite like a printer error can. Yet necessary, because "ain't nobody got time" to go paperless. While you can't vanquish an evil printer with holy water, you can make your printing experience more efficient and less evil with a print server solution.

With businesses now able to migrate their computing needs over to the cloud, and with cloud-based mobile devices now able to perform more enterprise-level tasks, many companies are seriously considering going all-in with the cloud and scraping their traditional IT infrastructure. As nice as it would be to clear out a closet full of servers, you will first want to address the pros and cons of such a drastic move.

At one point in Google's not-so-distant past, they were able to house all of their servers in one garage. True Story. Times have certainly changed for Google. In fact, Google has grown so rapidly that they saw the need to develop a new technology for the sole purpose of managing their growth. Google calls their new creation the Google Spanner.

It is the goal of every business to grow, but if there is a lack planning, then new growth will bring new problems. This principle applies to every area of your business, including your technology. Without any planning towards the expansion of your technology, you could end up with a Frankenstein of a computer network that can cause monster problems to your business.

The core idea behind social media is that it is a technology used to connect people. As people from all over the world embrace using social media, new and complex dynamics are added that turn social media into much more than a tool used to poke a friend. One of the most complex people groups is the modern family; and when entire families adopt social media, all the weird dynamics of family relationships are now posted for the world to see. We will attempt to analyze these new social media family dynamics, starting with the bad, and then the ugly, and eventually making our way to the good.

A strong network security solution will keep your company's data safe from hackers, unless a user is flat-out tricked. Deceiving users into opening misleading e-mails is a common scam called phishing. Most phishing e-mails are easy to spot because the message is generic, when hackers up their tactics from phishing to whaling, the digital waters can become treacherous.

Performance has always been one drawback with tablet computers. With a tablet, you are not quite getting a PC, but you are getting more than a smartphone. Microsoft looks to break through the surface of this hardware barrier with the new Surface Pro, a tablet that can handle a full Windows 8 operating system.

Social Media can be likened to vampires in the media. Both are loved by teenage girls, and like vampire characters, it seems like there are now too many social medias to keep track of. Just like you don't have to read Twilight to know that it's lame, it's also unnecessary to have your business involved with every social media out there. Although, there are several social media sites that can be utilized as part of a valuable marketing strategy.

Most computer errors are no big deal, just hit the undo button, keep calm, and carry on. However, there is one mistake that is sure to panic even veteran PC users, and that is closing an important document without saving it. We've all done it, it is not a good feeling; we will show how to recover it.

Velocity Micro dared to ask the question, "How small can we make a fully operational and powerful desktop PC?" The result is the Edge Mini. Small enough to fit inside the pocket of your jacket, the Edge Mini is a square that is 4 inches on each side, and 1.6 inches thick. Velocity Micro is billing the Edge Mini as, "The world's smallest desktop."

"There are only 2 types of computers in the world: Those that waste your precious time and those that waste your precious time faster"-Jerry Seinfeld. Believe it or not, Mr. Seinfeld is a bit of a time management expert; he has devised a time-saving productivity method that is simple, effective, and does not require a time-wasting computer.

According to a 2011 survey by Ponemon Research, 90% of U.S. businesses reported that their company's computers had been breached over the course of one year. Of these companies, 77% reported that they were breached multiple times within the same year. The only way to avoid this risk is to be very intentional with your company's network security.

In 2012, Facebook hit one billion active users. Facebook is the undisputed king of social media, but this does not mean that their subjects are happy. In a January 2013 study, online news site 24/7 Wall St. found Facebook to be one of America's top ten most hated companies. This study factors in customer and employee satisfaction, as well as stock performance.

It can be unsettling to know that there is a detailed profile about yourself floating around the internet. Your online profile can be shockingly thorough and is constantly being exchanged by internet data collecting companies for various purposes. If you are uncomfortable with this scenario, then let us recommend an app called DeleteMe that will cover your internet tracks.

People go on vacation to get away from tasks like checking e-mail. You may be able to unplug and unwind, but this is not an option for your inbox. The best practice to keep in contact while you are away is to use an auto responder. This is a helpful tool that will automatically reply to every e-mail with a message like, "On vacation, will return on Monday."

Writing in Microsoft Word, it will be within a few sentences before you encounter the squigglies. The squiggles are the colorful lines that show up below the words and sentences of your text. Everybody knows of these lines because they are almost impossible to ignore.

While it's convenient to have your web browser store passwords, you need to keep in mind that anyone who accesses your computer can retrieve your saved passwords. This risk is very real if you share workstations or laptops with others. We will show you how to adjust the settings on each of your web browsers in order to keep your passwords safe.

You would think that governments would be the one organization in the world that would be immune to computer viruses because they have sensitive information on every citizen as well as military secrets. Yet a new type of malware called Red October that targets governments was recently discovered after slipping by the tightest security systems in the world.

Is your computer taking longer to boot up then you remember it taking back when it was new? One reason may be due to unneeded applications opening up automatically every time you power on your PC. These extra apps can also slow down the overall performance of your PC. We will show you how to disable these speed bumps.