01/02/14
Use A Hashtag To Build Your Small Business on Social Media
#computercare Try this tip for your small business this year.
Think up a hashtag that is unique and specific for your business.
It needs to be a word or phrase that is NOT in popular use, it needs to be individualized.
Ok, have thought of it? No worries, we will wait….
Ok, great now that you have one, use it, everywhere.
Every single place you go, use it. Check in on foursquare, yelp, twitter every social network site use it. Use it in all your Pinterest, Google+, Instagram and shutterfly posts. Use it in your posts and tags or embed it in your signature on message boards.
The idea is, if you post anything, anywhere that post will have your new, unique and distinct hashtag in it.
Using this new and unique hashtag is just as important and can be just as meaningful as any brand messaging. Repeatedly using your hashtag (but only once per post) and having others pin, retweet or share your posts with your new hashtag in it will spread your reach.
06/21/13
Get Rid of Fruit Flies- No Poisons
Another quick tip that is not Tech related but very helpful.
Fruit flies are annoying and must die!
Here is the easy home remedy for fruit flies.
No poisons and no harmful chemicals, no sprays and no odor.
06/18/13
Get Rid of Ants in the Yard Without Poison
Ok so this is not a Tech thing.
You can easily remove / kill ants from your yard without using poisons.
I like this idea as we have pets that could stray into the poison.
And, it is inexpensive too.
03/26/13
Stop Look Listen and Feel for Hardware Diagnostics
© designjetparts.com 3/26/2013
Stop, Ask, Look and Listen
Hardware problems can be tricky to pin down and diagnose, but not as daunting a task as some techs fear.
Stop.
When you walk in, stop, take a breath and settle yourself. When you are distracted or rushed you will miss details that matter. Also you have to get your mind right, not on your last task or your next task or anything else. Center yourself and be in the moment. As was drilled into my head, it is not the task at hand that kills you, but the one before that does you in.
You have to be right here, right now to work effectively.
06/21/12
Don't Be A Bot
© designjetparts.com 6/21/2012
Bot Nets. Are you a bot?
You might be a bot and never know it.
Your computer could be infected with a spyware or other malicious software that makes you a bot.
Bots are commanded to travel the internet and conduct DoS attacks (Denial of Service), scrape websites for email and phone numbers, perform php injection attacks against websites (attempting to hack and change the coding on a webpage).
Your computer could be actively seeking information to aid an identity thief to steal information and credit card numbers from unsuspecting people.
Bots collect information and then, without your knowledge, transmit that information to the writer of the bot.
Activities that you would not normally, actively participate in, nor approve of.
If you are a bot, like I said, you might never discover that you are. You would need to employ network-monitoring software, and then you would have to notice the excessive activity when you are not surfing the net. You might suddenly start getting returned emails that you did not send. In a worse case scenario your ISP might shut you off.
02/23/12
Delete a File When Access is Denied
If you have ever tried to remove a virus or spyware manually you may have seen this condition on a Windows based PC, laptop or server.
When you attempt to delete a file Windows denies you access because the file is in use by another program.
There is a way to delete the culprit.
Lets say for instance you need to delete a file called spyware.exe.
But try as you may Windows says the file is in use and denies the delete.
01/25/12
Hang Up To Virus Removal Windows 7
© Computer Care 1/25/2012
We recently had an interesting virus removal problem come in.
Customer had an off the shelf computer by one of the big computer manufacturers, and it was one month out of warranty.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.
The customer had let the trial version of McAfee anti-virus expire, it was still functioning but no longer updating to the latest virus definitions.
The customer had picked up one of the fake Windows Virus Removal malware’s.
(The ones that pop up and tell you that you have infections and if you click here for $49.95 they can remove them) It disabled access to programs and the internet.
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