If you work for or care about a non-profit organization, Make sure they know about Centrend - and these strategies for obtaining the best software for free or nearly free.

A friend of mine and I were together at a venue, and I asked him if he was able to get on the local free Wifi that was provided. He said, "I usually don't go on public wifi because I don't think it's secure." This article describes what I told him I thought the real risks were so he could decide if he could use it safely.

Even the most reliable systems can go down, and you deserve to know what is happening! Here are some thoughts on what you should be able to find out when a critical piece of your Information Technology fails.

This week, one of our managed services customers sites went down due to a power failure. The site has a backup generator, but guess what? Their generator failed to start! While there is not much we can do for a customer that is entirely without power, there are things we have in place to get clients back up and running, the moment stable power returns. 

If you're like me, you meet a lot of people and end up collecting a lot of business cards. Several years ago, serious business networkers had to have a special scanner for scanning business cards effectively. With our smartphones so powerful, and with such great cameras, there's an app for that! 

There is NOTHING worse than having worked on an Excel spreadsheet or written something in MS Word and then had to redo it because of a power loss or application crash. You can avoid this frustration by following a few quick and easy precautionary steps.