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New Office Files
The office application (word, excel, etc) market has been heating up and with it comes a number of changes. […]

Selkowitz Newsletter

Your Inkjet is Stealing From You!
Yes, that little inkjet printer on your desk is literally a thief. We all know inkjet cartridges are expensive as can be, but what is news is inkjet […]

Newsletter

Tech news has been remarkably slow of late, but we finally have enough for a newsletter! Also I’m happy to say I’m largely healed from my broken foot, so you’ll be seeing me out and about more again.

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Early May Newsletter

I’m sure many of you noticed the lack of the second April newsletter, turns out we were in San Mateo being trained on what I believe to be the biggest new small business technology of the year…when we get all the capabilities later this year. For now I’ll just say I’m very excited about what […]

Why I Love Talkswitch

One of the cool things about our company is we use the products we sell to our customers. I looked for a long time to find a phone system that could do what I wanted affordably for small business. Actually honestly I thought I’d do a pure VoiP system, Asterisk, or something along those lines…but […]

Late March Newsletter

Eating Our Dog Food
The technology industry has a phrase “eating your own dog food” which means using the products you sell/develop. The idea is by using it yourself you’ll understand better from the user’s perspective how it works and what needs improvement.
We’ve been eating our dog food with the Talkswitch, Soholaunch on Seattle Trikke (my […]

Feb Newsletter

Drives Gone Bad
Turns out hard drives (the part of the computer that stores your stuff) aren’t nearly as reliable as claimed by the manufacturers. Both Google and Carnegie Mellon recently released studies with shocking conclusions - the drive manufacturers say at most .88% should fail each year but real world studies are showing typical failure […]

Mac vs. PC

Seemingly unlike the writers of most of these sort of articles, I actually use both a Windows PC and a Mac and have hundreds of clients with both systems. With the increasing popularity of the Mac, many are asking what’s the right machine - and I plan on settling that today.
First, let me review the […]

Think You’re Hard On Your Computer?

Ontrack recently published its Top 10 Data Loss Disasters of 2006, which is a complete riot. The stories include a telecom worker who dropped his laptop out a helicopter, a leaking toiletries bag that shampooed a laptop, an old banana that seeped into an external hard drive, and someone who took WD40 to a squeaky […]

5 Reasons Your Business Shouldn’t Use Cable Internet

5) While cable providers tout their speed, they’re only talking about their download rate. Cable internet generally has a very low upload rate reducing performance for sending files and emails with larger attachments.
4) Cable has no promise of uptime or repair time. If you depend on your internet connection for business not having these guarantees […]

Why You Should Spend a Bit More For Core 2

When buying a computer a common myth is if I only have basic needs I only need a basic computer. That’s often a true statement, but right now is a time of change and planning ahead now can save you in the long run.
As you may have heard Windows Vista is coming out in early […]

MacBook Impressions

I’ve had a black MacBook for a few days now and have many impressions to share. In general the system is very slick, fast, attractive, fast…did I mention fast?
Out of the box the system helps move everything over from your old Mac (OS X only) which works very well. Surprisingly it didn’t bring over my […]