TechLinks (weekly)
Kaspersky Calls Apple “10 Years” Behind Microsoft in Security tags: tech MM Security Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Re-Thinking Customizable Software
Way back when I was still working in IT for a small company, I remember reading and being involved in decisions about whether buying software like MS Exchange was the safe, easy way to go, or whether you got more bang for your buck by having software and tools that you could customize to your…
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Antivirus Action
Interesting, given my recent post about switching to Microsoft Security Essentials, one of our home PC’s was infected with a drive-by download of Antivirus Action. As much as I would have normally lectured my wife about using Internet Explorer, in this case she had to use it to access certain work-related tools, including getting full…
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AVG Problems and Seeking Advice
While I haven’t personally been caught up in AVG update problems like the one this week, it seems to be something I’ve been reading about a bit more often than I’m comfortable with. I’ve used the free personal edition of AVG on my home PC for years, and recommended it to quite a few others,…
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Techshow Day 3 Session 2
Automated Documents Barron Henley and Allan MacKenzie Barron: Quit using copy/paste and search replace to create documents! You copy over errors into all your documents. Most of the people, who consider themselves power users, don’t use word processing software effectively at all. Movement away from per hour billing to flat fee means you need to…
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CT Summation iBlaze 2.9 Pre-Release
They haven’t released the new version to partners, yet, but I did spend some time on a webinar taking a quick look at it. I found it really interesting that they are moving away from the alternating menus and toolbars based on your view. Basically, much like Office 2007, only well before Microsoft did it,…