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Blog posts from the Lanlogic Hosted Services Team
Password Protection
Every year or so, I like to do a new blog entry discussing password safety. I recently ran across an older XKCD comic that discusses passwords and how we’ve trained ourselves to use passwords that are difficult to remember but terribly easy for computers to crack. With that in mind, he suggests using a passphrase [...]
Read Article ›Mobile devices and Me
BlackBerry The BlackBerry Curve is easily my favorite device for email. I like the keyboard and the ease at which I can send/receive emails and texts. I used a BlackBerry Curve for several years, and a Torch for a few months. The Torch, with it’s slide out keyboard and touchscreen was an awkward combination. iPhone [...]
Read Article ›Snipping Tool Magic!
The Lanlogic Support team loves the Snipping Tool built into Windows 7! Here’s a cool how-to that you may not have heard about. There is a keyboard shortcut for the snipping tool – Ctrl+Print Screen. This is especially useful if you want to capture a snip of a right-click menu, tooltip, mouse-over or other similar effect. [...]
Read Article ›LinkedIn Spam
If you’re like millions of other folks on the internet, you probably use LinkedIn to manage your business contacts. There’s a new spam variant that’s out that appears to be from LinkedIn and, honestly, it’s really good. It darn-near got me and a few of my coworkers. Here’s what it looks like: Pretty legit [...]
Read Article ›The BlackBerry PlayBook is Here: Now What?
The newest member of the BlackBerry family has arrived and it’s a tablet! It’s been out for a week or so now and, while we’ve not had a chance to get our hands on one, they buzz over the PlayBook has been very positive. It’s smaller than the iPad with a 7-inch display and it [...]
Read Article ›Farewell Flip Camera, You’ll be Missed
You’ve probably heard by now that Cisco has canceled production of their Flip brand video cameras in order to restructure their business. As a proud first-generation Flip owner (no Hi Def version for me), this tiny little AA-powered camera has made a huge impact on my ability to capture spur-of-the-moment events (my daughter’s first steps, [...]
Read Article ›The Verizon iPhone is nigh!
We’ve been getting a lot of calls recently asking about whether or not our hosted Exchange service will work with Verizon iPhones and, well, the answer is a resounding YES! We’ve been supporting iPhones since they were released on AT&T’s network four generations ago and they’ll work just fine on the Verizon network as well. [...]
Read Article ›Spell Check in Outlook 2010 not working?
We recently ran across an issue with one of our customers who upgraded only Outlook to 2010 while keeping the rest of Office at 2007. They called in stating that Outlook’s spell checker wasn’t working anymore so Kevin found the fix: When users upgrade just Outlook, not the whole Office Suite, it doesn’t know where [...]
Read Article ›Guest Post: Outlook 2011 Review
Outlook 2011 with Hosted Exchange Server 2007 Integration My initial impressions: By Howie Levy (howie@levycomputerworks.com) For business users who use Outlook on the PC and are interested in switching to the MAC platform, Outlook 2011 MAC is clearly the best equivalent to Outlook 2007/2010 PC available. Outlook 2011 MAC is so close to the experience [...]
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