Archive for October 2013
Take a Penny; Leave a Penny: Slideshare
by Tony Rushin SlideShare is a free website that gathers all of the best Powerpoint, PDF and Keynote presentations and lets you view them quickly and easily. It has been described as the YouTube for slide decks. Anyone can post their presentation to it and many do so. It has about 58…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: How to Shut Your PC Down Faster
By Richard Stokes It’s 5:15pm and your old foe; ‘Atlanta traffic’ is waiting for you as soon as you get in your car. You’re staring at your screen in the office, waiting for your PC to shut-down and wondering why on earth does it take so long? And with every second that passes you know…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Let Uber Hail Your Next Cab
By David Gracey I am a member of an IT owner peer group that meets twice a year. We get together to discuss the challenges and opportunities of running an IT company. A few weeks ago I flew to Berkeley, California, to meet with the group. As always, it was informative and a great use of…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Taking a Trip? TripIt!
by Alisa Michael While preparing for our last vacation out of Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson Airport, at the last minute I was cutting and pasting our travel information into a document – in order to email it to those who needed it and to ensure that I had it all in one place. It was the…
Read MoreThe People Have Voted: BYOD is a Must
Last year, research firm Gartner heralded the bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, phenomenon as the most radical shift in enterprise client computing since the introduction of the PC. Many companies are adopting employee-owned mobile mobile device policies. People want convenience, they want access anywhere all the time. They want to get into their application very quickly and not feel…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Fear the Cloud and Puppies
By David Gracey For years now, many people in the IT industry, including us here at Network 1, have referred to Cloud Computing as the Wild West. What we mean by this is that there are many companies out there touting their Cloud services, including large companies, such as IBM, Amazon and Google, and small…
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