WyzGuys Tech Talk

There are a lot of options if you decide to put your documents in the cloud.  Keeping a synchronized copy of your documents in the cloud is a form of backup, for starters.  There are other advantages, too; like collaboration, document sharing, and synchronizing files between multiple PCs or other Internet connected devices such as tablets and smartphones.  Let’s look at three of the better known ones.

First, there is Microsoft’s SkyDrive, 25 GB of free online storage, with a Hotmail ...

Have you ever had a document that more than one member of your staff works on regularly?  Had trouble figuring our who had the most recent copy?  Lots of times you can solve the issue by “sharing” the file across the network.  But what if your staff works remotely, is home-based, or one or more members travels frequently?  How do you keep everyone’s copy of the document synchronized?

My business partner and I had this problem with web site designs that ...

Last month I switched cellular carriers, dropping T-Mobile and switching to Sprint.  I had a very weird echo problem with my Blackberry Bold, and my business partner had the same issue with her cell phone.  Coverage in my service area, the St Croix valley area, had deteriorated as well.   I will not do business with ATT and Verizon is just too danged expensive for my blood.  I am told the coverage is generally better in our area on Verizon, but ...

Epsilon, an email marketing company used by many major companies, reported that their server security was breached early in April, and that thousand of email addresses had been harvested by hackers.  The affected email addresses were from marketing lists for companies such as Best Buy, Walgreens, US Bank, Capitol One, Fry’s, Wal-Mart, TiVo, JP Morgan Chase, Disney Destinations, Marriot rewards, McKinsey, Beachbody, 1-800Flowers, marks & Spencer, Hilton, Lacoste, and presumably others.  If you did business with these companies on-line, you ...

Windows 7 was released on October 22, 2009, and we are approaching the 2 year anniversary of this outstanding Windows operating system.  I can say without reservation that this is my favorite Windows operating system yet, and my user experience goes back to Windows 3.1.  Make 2011 the year you upgrade to Windows 7.

Windows XP users:  Windows XP was released on August 24, 2001, and is close to being a ten year old operating system.  Computer operating systems age on ...

“This is the way the world ends…not with a bang but a whimper.” – TS Eliot

A significant computer security exploit, known as Stuxnet, was released last year against the Iranian nuclear power and weapons programs.  The way it was written was very clever, and extremely well targeted. 

Today, there was a post on Good Morning Silicon Valley that I have copied below:

“The idea behind Stuxnet computer worm is really quite simple. We don’t want Iran to get the ...

People I know who are Apple users are quick to tell me how much better the Mac platform is, from a security standpoint.  I try to point out that this is more a case of security by obscurity than any real inherent security.  What I mean is this – the Windows environment is a much larger target; there are twenty Windows machines for every Mac.  If you are going to writer code to attack and control computers, why wouldn’t you ...

As we look back to the end of 2010, we want to recognize some important, and some not so important, milestones.

25 years ago…1985

• The movie Back To The Future was released in the summer of 1985.
• AOL began mailing a never-ending array of CD’s .
• The Amiga 1000 computer – cost $1295, and came with an 8MHz Motorola processor, 256KB (that’s KILOBYTES, not megabytes or gigabytes)of RAM, and an 880KB floppy drive.
• The Intel 386 Processor – My first personal computer came with ...

Senator Ron Paul is one of a few Washington pundits who is not particularly inflamed by the recent release of secret documents by Wikileaks.  I could comment, but I think I will let Senator Paul speak for himself.

WikiLeaks release of classified information has generated a lot of attention in the past few weeks. The hysterical reaction makes one wonder if this is not an example of killing the messenger for the bad news. Despite what is claimed, the information that ...