by Scott | Feb 23, 2006 | General interest
OCCA Monthly Meeting (free and open to the public)When to Choose Which AMD Processor Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:00-8:30PM (No-host dinner at 6:00PM) Speaker: AMD Field Application Engineer Place: Rheinlander German Restaurant 5035 NE Sandy Blvd Portland OR...
by Scott | Feb 23, 2006 | General interest
Spam is everyones responsibility. Today, I had to send the following email to a business owner that I know, who simply hadn’t ever thought about the subject before. (his name and business type aren’t really X, by the way… ) Dear X, You sent out an...
by Scott | Feb 23, 2006 | General interest
I’ve actually been told by people on numerous occasions that they can “guarantee number one search positions”, and “Google doesn’t actually ban websites” and usually, I’m too busy to argue. Invariably, these claims come from...
by Scott | Feb 19, 2006 | Search Engines, SEO
If you’re launching a blog with good content about a certain subject, many other people may want to read it. But how do you let people know it’s there? Do you have an overall blog launching strategy? First, you absolutely must have decent content on your...
by Scott | Feb 17, 2006 | Spam prevention, Spyware, Technology News, Web Hosting
This is a note to my web hosting customers in Portland and elsewhere, but since it applies universally, I’m posting the info here… OS Commerce and PHPbb are free, or “open source” software programs available with all PDXTC web hosting packages....
by Scott | Feb 16, 2006 | General interest
Find out right from AMD themselves at the following event: OCCA Monthly Meeting (free and open to the public) Title: When to Choose Which AMD Processor Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Time: 7:00-8:30PM (No-host dinner at 6:00PM) Speaker: An AMD Field Application...
by Scott | Feb 16, 2006 | General interest
I got an email from a journalism student at Columbia University asking me to answer some questions. I replied that he could phone me, but if I did it on my blog, I could probably take the time to write, and he said “go ahead” – My name is Tim...
by Scott | Feb 14, 2006 | Computers - How to
How often are you bombarded by emails, with your In-Box filling up faster than you can even reply? Item after item seems to take priority throughout the day, and you’re lucky to even read all your email, much less act on it or reply to it, right? Well try this...
by Scott | Feb 14, 2006 | Digital Surveillance, General interest, Technology News
CCTV Digital video capabilities have dramatically changed over the years. You can have live digital video of your business or your home from anywhere in the world at a fraction of what it cost before. Analog video and VCR cassette tapes for security provide a...
by Scott | Feb 10, 2006 | Microsoft
Windows One Care? Well, according to Microsoft, here’s what it is… “This PC health service is always on, running quietly in the background. It helps give you round-the-clock protection and maintenance—virus scanning, firewalls, tune ups, file...
by Scott | Feb 9, 2006 | Spam prevention
You might have heard on the news that AOL and MSN are considering charging businesses for each email they send. Well that’s simply not true, and Here’s the full details of what’s going to be happenning… Basically it says that they may soon be...
by Scott | Feb 6, 2006 | SEO
Well, here’s the best example I’ve seen in a long time… This past week, BMW got removed from the Google search engine results in Germany. Why? Because they were showing Google one thing, and the public something else, which violates Google’s...