It’s just over a week away now. The day you’re either waiting in anticipation for; or are planning to spend cloistered at home, sheltered from the madding crowds at the mall and everywhere else.
If you’re one of the courageous (or crazy) people who will settle for no less than the best deal available on the worst day of the year to shop, here is my first installation of Top 10 Tech Toys for 2008, arranged in order of my favorites:
#1 Apple iPhone 3G: For most people, an iPod Touch would do just as well, but not for me. Because it’s a phone, a PDA, a music player with visual voice mail and an amazing web browser, I’ve decided that the iPhone is simply the best tech gift that could possibly be given. (If you’re reading this and want to make me the happiest person in the known universe, send that sleek, beautiful toy to our State St. address!) 🙂
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In my nearly 6 months of working for Dynamic Edge, I’ve learned that there literally is an application and several hundred plugins for just about every function you use on your computer. For those who don’t live, breathe and speak computers, these can be either huge programs, or tiny little bits of code that make life easier for the average computer user.
Some applications you’re probably already using are word processors like Microsoft Word or Word Perfect, spreadsheets like Excel, and media players like iTunes, Windows Media Player or RockBox. But there are countless other applications you probably use on a regular basis and don’t even realize it.
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On the eve of the release of Windows’ Small Business Server 2008, the question business owners should be asking themselves is this: “Is Small Business Server the right choice for me?” Assuming you’re not using the filing cabinet/shoebox method of data storage, here are a few things you should carefully consider, in order to make a better determination:
- How many users need direct access to your filesystem to retrieve documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases and so on…?
- What impact would an open, shared calendar have on your day-to-day business operations?
- Which office resources could be more efficiently shared by a group (or all of your) users?
Hello Everyone!
If you’re one of our clients or contacts, you’ve probably already heard this by now… but we recently sent out an email blast explaining how Microsoft just released an urgent security patch that really need to install if you are using any version of Windows.
Microsoft security update MS08-067 – addresses a vulnerability in Windows server service that would allow an attacker to do anything they want, essentially, on the server without authentication. While having a powerful firewall may provide you some protection from direct attacks, you should always take caution when opening and downloading email from unknown sources. For your safety, you should assume messages from unrecognized names or addresses are dangerous.
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A love letter from a Macintosh Fangirl to the new MacBook Pro.
If you’ve registered any product with Apple — your desktop, laptop, iPod, Apple TV — you probably got the email last Wednesday announcing Apple’s new pride and joy… the next in line to the throne known as the MacBook Pro.
So what’s so special about this iteration of my favorite machine? Aside from the fact that it’s streamlined, glossy and encased in aluminum, I think the folks at Apple can sell it best… so I’ll quote a few of my favorite one-liners from Apple’s Official Website.
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This is a fun trick I picked up at a technology training seminar Bruce was teaching on Wednesday.
Word 2007 has a great new feature called Track Changes that allows you to see what changes have been made to a document. This is especially useful for legal documents, newsletter articles and drafts of letters you’d send to clients. You can find the tools you need to track changes on the “Reviewing” tab of the Ribbon (I just learned that term, it’s the actual name for the light blue area on the top of your Word window.)
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