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October 26, 2011

iPad2 Security Flaw (please read!!)

Lots of our clients deal with sensitive information on a day to day basis, so this flaw is a big deal. By using the Smart Cover flaw, someone can unlock your iPad and see / interact with the last program you had open if you left it up. So if [...]

October 25, 2011

Eroots and Verizon, a Technology Mashup!

Eroots is having another “hey let’s get together and talk about technology” session with the great guys from Verizon! Stop on by after work next Friday (November the 4th) and do the following: Ask us those burning tech questions you’ve been dying to Play with some great new tech stuff [...]

October 13, 2011

Congratulations Clay Foody!

For effortlessly passing the Apple certification test! As we continue to push forward in to emerging technologies, it’s important to stay up to date on classes and book reading from important vendors. And Apple is certainly one of them. So now everyone, call and ask Clay your Mac questions, he [...]

October 13, 2011

Apple’s iCloud

We’re testing it. We’re on top of it. And as the features grow and services get added we will keep you up to date. For those who aren’t so sure, Apple’s iCloud is an online service made to keep all of your devices in sync with one another effortlessly, storing [...]

October 13, 2011

Time to make the iPhone switch?

In a kind of big news story, the Blackberry service for most users was out for quite some time over the last few days. For some this disruption of service isn’t a deal breaker, but for a lot of users the outage affected how they do their jobs and day [...]

August 17, 2011

Working Remotely

We get this question a lot, and people are surprised when we say it’s not only pretty straightforward a lot of the time, but that we do it every day! Between the cloud, Microsoft’s built in remote desktop features, and other remote access tools (VPNs, etc..) remote access to your [...]

August 17, 2011

Database And Web Design Too!?

We weren’t sure if everyone knew about our sister companies, so we wanted to give a little synopsis of the other things we do to help our clients. Capitol Contender is here to help you get your data and processes organized with custom database software. Keep everything up to date [...]

July 29, 2011

BACKUP!!!

We know, backups are boring. Nobody wants to talk about them, ever. They are the laundry, the baseboard cleaning, the oil change of the computer world. You KNOW they need to be done and are immensely important, but sometimes it just slips your mind. So… Just a reminder. Backup your [...]

July 29, 2011

Some New Bad Malware

There is a new batch of Malware on the rise that we talked about briefly in a recent blog post. But as we see more and more infections we want to give you the skinny on what happens. The new variants load up before your operating system, so it is [...]

July 21, 2011

My Foray With A MacBook

I’m a Windows guy. Since MS DOS, Windows 3.1 (and 3.11 for Workgroups!) I’ve been working in and around IT. From small firms to IBM, my jobs have been pretty Microsoft centric. That was just the way of life. Well life, she is a changin’. Despite my best efforts, I [...]