Archive for ‘November, 2009

Free Web Filtering and Anti-Phishing for Home and Small Business

by Aaron Magruder

We’ve talked about why content filtering is important to small businesses and a few solutions.  Some of the highlights are reducing wasted network resources such as internet bandwidth, minimizing legal risk and increasing employee productivity.  If you haven’t read our content filtering blog in a while, please check out the risk section again? [...] Read more »

Keeping Track of Schedules Driving You Mad?

by Aaron Magruder

Do you find it difficult to keep track of families, business, staff or co-workers activities?  What about tracking client appointments or scheduling people in the field?  It is frustrating to add the same event to multiple calendars and phones.  Small Businesses may not have the funds available to purchase Microsoft Outlook or Exchange E-mail [...] Read more »

Common Security Tips to Keep You Safe on the World Wide Web

by Aaron Magruder

Here are a few common security tips that will help you avoid the majority of problems related to accessing the internet.1.  Use a good antivirus program, schedule automatic virus definition downloads and daily scheduled scans early in the morning.  Create a task on your calendar to check the status of the definition downloads and [...] Read more »

Simple, How I Get to the Internet and Troubleshooting Steps

by Aaron Magruder

Many small business owners, like yourself, or a member of your staff double as the “IT Guy”.  Nothing wrong with this, but it does take time away from your business.  Learning how computers work, operating systems, applications and connecting everything together is no small task.  [...] Read more »

Password Management Tools

by Aaron Magruder

With usernames and passwords for online banking, facebook, twitter, e-mail and everything else,  What are good tools for both creating passwords and keeping track of them. Passwords should contact both upper and lowercase, numbers and special characters. i.e. p@$$w0rd. Do not use birthdays, usernames, childern’s names or other word that [...] Read more »