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What is Managed Services?
We are asked this question quite often and the best way to describe it is: Managed Services is a way of monitoring, maintaining and supporting business networks – remotely, securely and proactively. Servers, workstations and networks are not “plug it in and forget it” devices. Just like your car, they...
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Android Phone Tips from PCWorld
If (like me) you are a recent convert to a smart phone powered by Google’s Android operating system, you may be struggling to harness its substantial power. The current (March 2010) issue of PCWorld magazine and its on-line counterpart have a nice article by JW Raphael that will get...
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Columbus Office Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
February 14, 2010 marks the ten year anniversary of the Columbus-based Affinity partner, HMU Consulting. Clients, friends, family and staff gathered on Thursday, February 4th to celebrate this milestone at an Open House.
The Columbus team kicked off the evening with a champagne toast to founders, Barron K. Henley, Esq....
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Law Office Tech Bargains this Week (Feb. 14-20)
One of my favorite office supply superstores, Staples, has a few nice bargains this week that will appeal to law office tech users. The Seagate 1TB external USB hard drive is on sale for $89.99. My favorite wireless notebook mouse (that I’ve used without fail for several years), the Microsoft...
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Google Buzz: Is it a Logical Choice for the Social Web?
If you use Gmail as an email client, you probably recently received a link to Google's new social notification application called Google Buzz. Buzz is another attempt by Google to grab some share of the social web market. Do they have something this time?
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LexisNexis Announces Maintenance Plan Requirement
Users of the LexisNexis products PCLaw™ and Time Matters® and Billing Matters® may have recently heard that LexisNexis is requiring customers to purchase or reinstate their Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP) by May 1, 2010. While news of additional software costs can sometimes be alarming, it’s important to remember that purchasing...
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External battery for your 3-cell netbook
If you messed up and bought a netbook with the low-capacity 3-cell battery and are now stuck with just three hours of battery life instead of 6, 7, or even 9 hours you could have gotten from the optional 6-cell battery, all is not lost. Starting Sunday, Feb. 7, Staples...
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Why online backups are not enough
Online data backups such as Mozy, Carbonite, IDrive, Amazon S3 and others provide excellent protection for your data. We use Amazon S3 ourselves. But, as this time, we still strongly recommend an on-site backup as the primary backup method and online backup only as a secondary solution.
Case in point,...
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