Computers are essential to our everyday lives and most people will use one at home, at work and even when travelling between the two. A computer failure is very frustrating but inevitable because of the level of demand that we place on these pieces of technology. The average office computer will be on for at…Continue Reading
VOIP-based business phone systems are doing a lot for business. VOIP (Voice/Video Over Internet Protocol) technology has come a long way in a very short time, and while most of VOIP applications were based around consumer use. It did not take long for business to adapt and create full-featured systems to integrate standard calling, extension…Continue Reading
When you add a new drive using the iSCSI Initiator in Windows 7 you will need to initialize, configure, and partition the new drive on your Windows 7 PC. In this guide I will walk you through the steps necessary to get your new iSCSI drive initialized and ready for use. Initialize the Disk 1….Continue Reading
So you’ve set up an iSCSI Target to share a hard drive or other resource over the network. You know the IP address of the iSCSI Target and you’re ready to use iSCSI Initiator to connect to your Target. Great! All you need to do is follow the instructions below to learn how to connect to…Continue Reading
A new Windows Phone release is scheduled to come to a phone near you. The new release, scheduled for this Fall, named Mango, includes hundreds of new features which were announced at the Mango Press Conference. Mango will be available in more languages including: Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese,…Continue Reading
Before you can connect to the iSCSI target using iSCSI Initiator, you will first need to determine the Target’s IP address, without it you can’t do much. On this guide I will show you how to discover the target’s IP address using iStorage Server, the software used to generate the target in Windows. If you…Continue Reading
In the previous post we discussed the benefits of using iSCSI to access resources over a network. In this guide we will take the concept of iSCSI a bit further and show you how to get started. Before you continue with the guide below, download and install the free version of iStorage Server. Once installed, launch the iStorage…Continue Reading
If you are here, you probably want to know what iSCSI is and how to use it and the benefits. Good thing is, that you’ve come to the right place. In the iSCSI series we will publish this week we will discuss the benefits and usage of iSCSI as well as how to set it…Continue Reading
There is nothing worse than turning on your PC and waiting for what seems like forever for it to load. Working on a slow computer is frustrating, but there are some easy tricks to try before deciding to upgrade or replace. Rather than tossing your computer out the window in frustration, try a few of…Continue Reading
Pin My Site, Microsoft’s relatively new pinning feature which integrates with Windows 7, users of Internet Explorer 9, and popular websites has become popular over the past few months. Pin My Site allows websites to share more information regarding their site by not only making it easier to connect to, but by giving users notifications…Continue Reading
It’s no doubt being social can help grow your business in today’s market, perhaps not as much as search, but its importance is still on the rise. Bing sees this and is working with its search engine, along with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to help out small businesses. Bing is integrating social…Continue Reading
Technology has been widely adopted by many, but computers and the Internet have been adopted by a younger crowd. Baby Boomers and seniors are less likely to learn about computers and the Internet on their own and often have a hard time understanding how to use them. Over the past 25 years, SeniorNet has been…Continue Reading
You can find countless forums across the web with people discussing and helping others out on all sorts of topics. Now Microsoft is trying to get more involved within the forum community with its new Windows Expert Community. Windows Expert Community is designed to gather well knowledged computer enthusiasts for a variety of topics. Forums…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
