One of my new clients created a website using www.vistaprint.com and their website template. Now, I’m generally a fan of VistaPrint for their business cards and other items. However, like most of the cookie-cutter website building services out there, you are only allowed a marginal amount of control. VistaPrint charges an additional fee to transfer your domain name! Even though …
Hard Drive – Click of Death
I’ve blogged and preached about this over and over and over. Rule #1: You are only as good as your last successful backup – from which you can recover. Hard drives fail. It’s a simple fact of technology. The only question is when. Why take the chance? Backing up with a Mac is as easy as Time Machine or Carbon …
Digital Faxing
Oddly, the popularity of email and all things digital still has NOT KILLED the fax machine. It continues to hang around in a lot of offices as one of those “entrenched” technologies that just won’t go away. Heck, college football even promotes the use of the lowly fax machine on signing day. However, from an efficiency standpoint, it makes a …
Network Utility in OSX Mavericks
Don’t ask me why – but Apple decided to move the Network Utility app in OSX Mavericks. I use it all the time when troubleshooting networks for clients. It’s handy and does the basic job well. It’s now located in the following directory / folder: /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/ Previously it was in the /applications/utilities folder. Why Apple moved it is beyond me. …