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Small Business Tips: The Cost of Ink

July 14th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Did you know that investing in a small laser/multifunction laser printer can save you hundreds per year on ink.

Today ink can cost more than the printer it’s self; in fact you could buy a printer on sale that includes ink for the same cost.

But if you’re a small business this concept sounds costly and inefficient.

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Lavasoft’s List of Fake Security Software

June 28th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Did you know Lavasoft the makers of the popular Malware protection program Ad-Aware has a list of all the many fake security programs on the Internet.

Rogue software are advertisements for fake software like Firewalls, System Security, Spyware, Adware and Malware removal programs.

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Remember My Password?

May 28th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Many people have seen this option countless times, but should you do it?

This feature or option is a big security risk, because your password is stored as is and can be read by anyone.

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Storing Passwords

May 26th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

How passwords are saved on a system.

When we save a password to a system like a website or application we know this password has to be saved somewhere, but how are these passwords saved?

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Windows Licenses Explained

April 5th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Windows Licenses, what are they and what’s the difference?

Windows Licenses come in three different types: OEM, Retail and Upgrade.

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Play any Music or Video on Your Mac

April 2nd, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Downloading videos from the Internet may contain many different video types that Quick Time and iTunes for example may not beadle to play on your Mac. The following describes what you can download to support all these formats with your Mac.
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Media Player Displaying Wrong Aspect Ratio

March 31st, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Windows Media Player and many other Windows applications display video(s) with the wrong image dimensions.

People trying to compress or convert video(s) to iPod or any other format using the 16:9 (wide screen) aspect ratio probably have encountered this problem.

The video is in wide screen but Windows Media Player displays the video in Standard Definition (a square.)

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WordPress Attracts Negative Traffic

March 29th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Crawlers, Bots and Spam; WordPress attracts them like a magnet.

The popular web log (blog) system WordPress is an amazing system for setting up and managing a blog, but what we don’t like is the amount of negative web traffic it attracts.

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WordPress: Next Page

March 26th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

Did you know WordPress has a hidden feature to allow page breaks.

Page breaks can split the display of your long posts into separate pages for viewing.
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Computer Technicians Always Backup

March 24th, 2010 Patcoola No comments

The importance of backing up clients’ data.

A computer technician was paid to service a business computer. The technician decided that the computer needed the operating system fully restored. Doing so the technician didn’t backup the client’s data and was sued for almost half a million dollars in damages (approximately $420,000).

The technician filed for bankruptcy and lost his business license. If only he remembered to backup the clients’ data, this wouldn’t have happened.

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