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What are you willing to lose?
Submitted by fcrouse on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 13:05How much of your hard work are you willing to lose in a disaster? It might surprise you to find out that your answer is actually "everything." That is the answer if you have not established and if you do not regularly use a "personal backup procedure."
In the Cloud
Submitted by fcrouse on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 10:25Do you feel that some days your head is just "in the clouds?" Turns out that, as a saavy technology user, this might be a good thing. A major shift is taking place today in how we, the end user, are using our computers and storing our information. We are starting to use "the cloud."
Smartphones do PayPal
Submitted by fcrouse on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 20:35Do you have a Smartphone? Do you use PayPal? Do you still write or receive cheques? Well, those three worlds have just come together. Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile recently announced an upgrade to the iPhone Paypal app. Now, when you receive a cheque you can take a picture of it with your iPhone camera and have the amount deposited to your PayPal account. Hold the cheque for fifteen days and then get rid of it. It might be time to think about and understand mobile computing.
