Tutorials: Save money while controlling multiple PCs
In some situations, you might need multiple computers, so you'll just need to get a new keyboard, mouse, and display each time, right? Instead, try a more effective--and cost-effective--ways to use two systems. Here area few ways to get multiple-system benefits without the full multiple-system cost.
Zack Stern 11/06/2009 09:51:00
Tutorials: How To: What NAS can do for the small business
Any business of any size runs on information, whether it's keeping track of accounting data or managing the flow of proposals and orders. Over the past 25 years, computers have transformed the way that small businesses operate, making it possible to organize and manage information in ways that simply was not possible in the days of paper ledgers and index cards.
By Alfred Poor 26/05/2009 01:35:00
Tutorials: How To Build and Share Databases On the Web
If you are part of a business, sooner or later you want to be able to collaborate on a database with a colleague or customer. In the past, the easiest way to share a small database was to create a spreadsheet and email it to your collaborators. While this isn't the best method, it has withstood more sophisticated competition for several reasons:
David Strom 19/05/2009 05:54:00
Tutorials: Do you need a file server?
Most small businesses don't use file servers, a specialized PC that is just used to share files among workers. In the past, these PCs were expensive, ran a different operating system from the ordinary Windows XP or Vista, and made it easier to connect to printers and backup tape drives. Because they were expensive, many smaller businesses just opted to store shared files on someone's desktop.
David Strom 14/05/2009 02:44:00
Tutorials: Full disk encryption comes to workgroups
Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you'll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you'll suffer the time and aggravation of restoring your data, all the while hoping you have everything backed up properly. But most expensive? Surviving the backlash and legal consequences of losing customer data, financial records and private company information.
James E. Gaskin 14/05/2009 04:34:00
Tutorials: Keep safely backed up
Online backup makes some people nervous. It shouldn't--especially with program-and-service combos like MozyHome (2GB storage free, other plans available) around. With 128-bit or 448-bit Blowfish encryption, there's no way anyone's going to steal your data. Mozy actually goes out of its way to warn you that if you forget your password (Mozy can also provide one which they keep track of), there's no way to access your data.
Jon L. Jacobi 13/05/2009 07:50:00
Tutorials: The 10 biggest annoyances in Outlook
Microsoft's highly capable email client Outlook is glitchy and has too many features for its own good.
Preston Gralla 23/04/2009 09:22:00
Tutorials: Solve bad blocks on a hard drive
Bad blocks and bad sectors are pieces of the hard drive's surface that a program or the drive itself finds unreliable. Any files written to a bad block could be lost.
Lincoln Spector 21/04/2009 02:49:00
Tutorials: Get started with a small-business server
Your small office probably relies on more than one computer to get work done. For managing tasks across all of your company's PCs, consider using a small-business server.
Zack Stern 16/04/2009 10:26:00
Tutorials: Copy everything from your old drive to your new one
Buying a new hard drive with lots of storage space can give your PC a new lease on life and can improve your system's performance. But you need to make some decisions before you start transferring your data.
David Murphy 16/04/2009 10:31:00
 
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