Adelaida Severson
Please note that you may write in Adelaida. She had to withdraw from the race due to a technicality on signatures.
Oct 20, 2010
Gilbert School Board Candidates
Here are links to information on the 3 candidates running for the 2 positions for the Gilbert School Board. Read up and make sure you VOTE!
May 26, 2010
Need A Nanny
My beautiful college daughter is back home for the summer safe and sound! I missed her so much and the joy she brings into our house is amazing. She's been cooking, helping her junior high brother study for finals, and looking for a summer job. She is 20 years old and is so sweet and responsible. She has worked the last 2 summers at a daycare full time in Washington but wants to spend the summer at home this year with mommy and daddy! I'm putting a link to her resume here: http://tinyurl.com/3ylx4qh If anyone needs a Nanny or Babysitter, give us a call! She is a business major and also very creative and great on design on the computer. If you need office help she would be great at that too!
Nov 18, 2009
Cyber Wars?
According to an article on internetnews.com McAfee is warning nations against politically motivated cyber attacks. They have been predicting this threat for awhile now and just recently have seen the threats become real. Not worried about it since your not into politics? According to McAfee private and public business will not fare well and may get caught in the crossfire. It's more important than ever now to protect your information and technology against threats. Here is the original article. McAfee Outlines Growing Cyber Warfare Threat.
Nov 3, 2009
Microsoft Axes Accounting Software
Microsoft announced recently that they will no longer be offering their suite of accounting software packages. Bummer for those who stuck with it for these past few years. I myself had switched over from Quickbooks to Small Business Accounting a few years ago. You see, we are a big Microsoft supporter and were excited they had added that element to the Microsoft software family. Unfortunately, it wasn't very easy to use, they kept changing it, and I eventually got so frustrated that I switched back to Quickbooks. I guess others may have had the same experience now that I hear Microsoft will no longer be offering the software. Too bad, really - it would be nice to go with Microsoft on this one but when it came down to it, I had to have a good program to do the books for my business on. Quickbooks fit the ticket. Now I am using Quickbooks Online which I love because I can travel and still access my accounting records. I can easily give my accountant a log in as well and she can work on our taxes. I just pay a monthly fee and we get a 3 user license. If you are interested ... check it out! Quickbooks Online Article Microsoft Info
Oct 29, 2009
Should I backup online?
Until recently I kept all my files on an external hard drive. So far, so good. Last year my laptop just stopped working. One day it was fine and the next day kapowee it won't boot up. Lost everything. Luckily I had copied a lot of my files onto Microsoft's SkyDrive so that was great. But I hadn't been diligent about keeping it updated and unfortunately lost a lot of information. After that happened I decided to stop using my local hard drive and use an external hard drive. I was feeling pretty smart about that when one day my husband brought up the idea that ... even an external hard drive can fail. Duh, why didn't that occur to me? Now I'm using Microsoft Mesh. It's a free service and I'll admit it doesn't give you much space and isn't real easy to figure out but at least I could recover my files if I needed to.
What's your story? Are you backing up your files? According to a recent article by Kim Komando
- 43% of people lose irreplaceable files every year
- Only about 3 out of 100 stolen laptops are recovered
- Thousands of files are lost every year to disasters like fires, floods, etc.
- Up to 13% of hard drives crash in their first year
Kim recommends an online service called Carbonite. We like using MozyPro for our business and may be switching for our personal use as well. But what ever you decide to use - just use something. Don't find yourself in that 43% category with no backup of your data. Here are a few ideas:
- Online backups (like Carbonite, or MozyPro)
- Online backups for free - Microsoft's SkyDrive, or Mesh
- Copy files to an external hard drive
- Copy files to a CD or DVD
One further note I would add is to be sure and backup your email and contact information. That is one of the things I lost when my laptop crashed - I still don't have all the contacts back - and there were lots of emails that I was keeping and now can't recover.
Oct 27, 2009
Windows 7 Upgrade Confusion
Read an article from ComputerWorld by Gregg Keizer about some confusion with upgrading to Windows 7. Evidently a company called Digital River was offering discounted downloadable upgrades to students for Windows Version 7. 100's of customers complained that they were receiving an error message when trying to install the upgrade. According to Digital River and Microsoft, the problem occurs when students purchased a 64 bit version of Windows 7 to download onto their 32 bit existing versions of either Vista or Windows XP. I have to admit, I probably would make the same mistake and was curious about the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit. So I typed into Google (gotta love that!) "Difference Between 32 bit and 64 bit Windows". Amazingly an article from Microsoft popped up and I read all about it! Evidently some 32 bit computers are capable of running 64 bit but some are not able to. I decided to check out my own laptop. Here were the instructions: Open your Control Panel (by clicking first on the Start button) and go into Systems Maintenance. Click on Performance Information and Tools. View and Print Details. In the System Section you can read if you are running 32 or 64 bit and whether your computer even has the capability of running 64 bit. Be sure to check it out before downloading your upgrade. Digital River mentioned they would give refunds so if you ran into this problem read the article - it gives instructions on how to get that refund.
Oct 7, 2009
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