Check out the guided tour for Apple’s brand new operating system coming out this month, October 26th. We are very excited about it and here are some more links we are following:
We are now offering the set up and configuration for Google Applications for small to large businesses. Feel free to contact us with questions and comments about this service at info@syntekservices.com and 312-638-0055
Plaxo was once a service that allowed you to keep your address book updated, automatically. Now it has reinvented itself as a central sync point for all of your many address books and calenders.
A great FREE utility is out there called CCleaner. This utility has the key tools to clean up the mess left behind from installing / uninstalling programs on your computer as well as some privacy purge features like cleaning up cookies, history, temporary internet files all in 1 click.
It’s official, I have crossed over to Apple and MAC OS X. The transition has been great and I wanted to share a few tools and configuration tips that I found useful:
1. Menu Strip: Provides a Home Icon on the top Apple bar which can be easily customized.
2. Make sure to enable two fingers for the right click found in the System Preferences –> Keyboard and Mouse –> Trackpad. Unfortunately Windows has made me a right click addict.
3. The active screen corners for showing desktop and arranging open windows. Although it takes time to get used to moving the mouse to the active corners, this feature is very useful and when I work on Windows machines, I find myself moving the mouse to the active corners.
A new back up solution is coming out from Data Robotics, Inc. which is going to revolutionize how we think about back up.
We all know that hard drives may fail, so we buy external hard drives for backup storage. But guess what? Those can fail as well. RAID is the best solution medium to large size business have been able to implement to protect themselves from data loss on the backup, but what do all other small business and home users to do?
Drobo is what we all have been looking for in backup solutions! Check out this simple to understand video explaining how it works: