Client Success Story: Tax Time

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One of our new clients purchased a small business a few years ago. The acquisition included the company’s computer, containing over a decade of legal paperwork, financial information, and customer data. The computer was an old Dell that had been built to run Windows XP, but had been upgraded with Windows Vista. In the spirit of, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Our client continued to use this old computer and dated software that the original owner purchased and used.

It was all going “beautifully” until one day, two weeks before she needed to get her yearly financials to her accountant, the computer decided that it just didn’t want to start up any more, as old computers are prone to do. [Read more…]

What to do with those old electronic devices.

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We have them sitting on shelves in our closets and in our garages. Stuffed in drawers and in boxes under the bed. Old computers, laptops, printers, cell phones, DVD players, TVs… The list of old electronics collecting dust in our homes goes on and on.

Did you know that these old devices can yield potentially useful materials that can help the both environment and our communities? [Read more…]

Client Success Story: Virtual Wizardry

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We can try our darnedest to keep our hardware and software up to date, but sometimes the programs we have come to rely on just can’t be updated any more.

Over time, software developers eventually drop support for older “legacy” software so that they may focus their attentions of newer, more stable and up-to-date versions of the programs. They might even go out of business altogether, leaving their users to kludge together their own solutions to any problems that might arise.

Several people still use these “unsupported” programs for various reasons, but what happens when these old programs that we absolutely can’t live without can’t be run any longer?
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SSD vs HDD, which should you choose?

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Eeny meeny miny moe. Pick a Hardrive by the… Toe?

Ladies and gentlemen, a new era in storage drives has arrived: The Solid-State drive (SSD). Is it time to upgrade, or can we stay with our favorite sixty-year-old technology? Should we even upgrade our storage? Let’s take a look at these different types of drives to see if we can answer those questions: [Read more…]

Buying a used computer

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Giftwrapped Laptop

‘Tis the season to buy presents. Fa la la la la…

Sometimes buying a new computer for a loved one, or even yourself, can be financially out of reach. That’s okay, there are plenty of used computers on the market that can fit your needs just fine. [Read more…]