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Welcome to High Tech House Calls
Greetings!
We are Experts in Integrating Apple and Windows Based Systems!
Got bugs and spyware on your mind?
Is your system down?
Work behind?
Did your child download a virus... or worse?
Do your network problems make you feel cursed?
Call High Tech House Calls at 404.229.0839 to schedule an appointment.
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Disaster Recovery Plan - Prepare for the Next Flood  - Gather all your software installation CD's into one place. If
the pile is overwhelming because you have kept software for computers
you no longer own or the software is outdated, now is the time to throw
out the old and keep the current. If you want help culling through all
the software, please call High Tech House Calls (404.229.0839). We are here to help.
- Store your software CD's in a safe place. At the very least, store your software in a different room from your computers. A safer option would be a fireproof media safe or a bank safety deposit box. Plastic (what CD's are made of) will melt before paper will burn, so getting a fireproof media safe is a must.
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ensure the safety of your personal data such as Quicken financial records, word
documents, and photos, you should be backing your data up to an
external hard drive, Cd's or an online backup solution such as Carbonite http://www.carbonite.com.
- Before you buy an external hard drive read "Your Next Must-Have Purchase For Your Computer" in this issue.
If
you've taken proper precautions and the worst happens and your computers are under water, you'll be able to relax a little,
because all your things you need to restore your computers are safe and
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Your Next Must-Have Purchase For Your Computer 
And the answer to the question is: An External Hard Drive!
Why?:
- To
stop you from filling up your hard drive with photos and your iTunes
library. Your hard drive must have unused space in order to run the
operating system efficiently. Filling up your external hard drive does
not cause your computer to hang, slow down, crash or not boot.
- A backup
for your hard drive. Hard drives fail and laptops get stolen. If you have
backups of key files on your external hard drive, the pain of getting
your new computer back to where you were will be minimized.
- Save some money on your next computer by buying the one with the smaller hard drive. 2TB (yes, terabytes!) external hard drives exist. Why spend money for a big hard drive for your operating system when you can put all your stuff on a huge external hard drive.
- One
external hard drive will work for all your other computers. No more
trying to remember on which computer that document is located. One thing
to remember is that the external hard drive will be formatted to work
with the various Windows Operating Systems or for the Apple Mac OS System.
A Windows drive will not read Mac OS files, but a Mac OS drive will
read Windows files.
Buying an External Hard Drive
- There are basically two types of hard drives; a) small physical size (pack of cigarettes sized) using the power from just one or two USB ports on your computer b) large physical size (thick paper back)
using an electrical adapter like the one for your notebook that plugs
into the wall. If you are lugging the external drive around, the USB
port powered external drive makes sense. This convenience will cost you more than the paper book sized drive.
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other difference is whether backup software is included in the price of
the drive. Do you want a program to automatically backup folders you
selected or are you comfortable cutting and pasting, drag and dropping from one hard drive directory to another? External hard drives with a backup program cost more.
Go out and buy that external hard drive now! |
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Books To Add To Your Reading List
For Networking
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
by by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Interesting stories to tell to new contacts.
For Marketing:
Duct Tape Marketing: The World's Most Practical Small Business Guide by John Jantsch
101 Ways to Promote Yourself: Tricks of the Trade For Taking Charge of Your Own Success
by Raleigh Pinskey
For Business:
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Blackberry News You Can Use
The Blackberry Desktop for Mac Application was available for download on October 2nd. (http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/desktop/desktop_mac.jsp) This installation was tricky, but sync'ing with Entourage 2007 worked! The folks at High Tech House Calls suggest you make the change from PocketMac (current Blackberry Application used for sync'ing on a Mac) to Blackberry Desktop for Mac. We would be happy to assist you with the installation. Call High Tech House Calls at 404.229.0839.
Texting is a way of life with a Blackberry, but can be easy to delete a received text before you have copied down the information you need from it. A free application automatically sends your text message to your email so that you have an electronic record of it that can be retrieved later from your computer email inbox. The Cortado SMS2Desk software automatically forwarded all my text messages to an email address I specified. No more asking to have text'ed information send again. (http://www.cortado.com/euen/CortadoFree/SoftwareforBlackBerry/SMS2Desk.aspx)
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by Phil Jones