It seems like forever since the Google On Main event that made national and even international news. It didn’t stop with the amazing night of 2200+ people gathered at Falls Park in downtown Greenville SC with LED lightsticks, spelling out “Google” while aircraft flew overhead taking photos and video. Far from it. Greenville has continued to make their desire for Google’s …
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Microsoft Office 2010 is coming and it may be a free upgrade for your company
Microsoft has RTM’d their latest and greatest version of Microsoft Office. RTM is a “release to manufacturing”, which means that you will see it on store shelves and available from vendors very soon! To be honest with you, I was not a MS Office fan until Office 2007 was released, and I fell in love with the power and reliability …
Technology In The Home: The Better Marriage Blanket
Sometimes a product comes around that just stinks…. Sometimes it is quite the opposite I guess…. Have a great weekend!
Another dead technology: Floppy disks to become a thing of the past – Finally
It has been a long time coming in my honest opinion, but Sony recently announced it would stop production of the floppy disk in March of 2011. (And there was much rejoicing) The floppy was a long lived technology that almost everyone is is familiar with. In it’s most popular format, it was 3.5″ and held 1.44 Megabytes of data. …
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite Offers Cloud Alternative to Hosting Your Own Exchange Server
EVERY business needs email and of course, Microsoft Exchange is the perfect solution for most businesses, however, the cost of purchasing, deploying and maintaining a server, or even multiple servers to host email can easily exceed the budget of a smaller business and in some cases, even larger businesses. Fortunately for them, there are alternatives. Sure you could use Google …
VoIP business users beware! It will soon be illegal to display CID info other than your own
If you have a VoIP (Voice over IP) phone system with SIP trunking and control your own Caller ID, then you need to insure that the information sent is actually your information. IE: The phone number should be an actual number at your business, and the name should reflect the name of your business. Congress just passed a bill known …
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Using an iPad for business purposes such as remote desktop and with your corporate network
Do you run a business and want to use an iPad with it? My hold us has been that there is currently no 3G, but that is changing very soon. Until then, a person who wants to use their iPad has to find a Wi-Fi hot spot, or, they could optionally do like our friend and TV personality Amy Wood …
An amazing TEDx posting: Eric Whitacre: A choir as big as the internet
Anyone interested in collaborative efforts should go check this out: http://www.ted.com/talks/a_choir_as_big_as_the_internet.html What you will find a collabrative effort on the behalf of 185 people in 12 countries, who participated in a “virtual choir”, sending in clips (245 I believe in total!) to be arranged into one piece that is beautifully done! Overcoming the noise issue of the various submitted clips …
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Is your business still relying on an old FAX machine & multiple styles of printers?
If your business is like many that we provide service for, you may still require the use of a FAX machine. In fact you may have a conglomeration of devices that you use in order to have the best of all worlds, maybe your office looks something like this: A laser printer to print forms and documents cheaply, and quickly. …
It’s Tax Day! Upgrade your Intuit Quickbooks to celebrate!
Still running an older version of Intuit Quickbooks or Quicken? Why not celebrate getting through tax season with a new version!? Homeland Secure IT is a reseller of Intuit products and can save you 20%. It doesn’t matter if you are in Greenville, the Upstate or even South Carolina, we can save you money on the product if purchased through …