If you have referred more friends than anyone else, you win the Computer.
Contest Starts: August 1, 2010 - Contest Ends: October 31, 2010
The winner will be published in the November, 2010 newsletter.
* In the event of a tie, the person who had the first referral will be the winner.
COMPUTER SPECIFICATIONS
Dell Studio One 19 All in One Desktop PIX
Processor:
Operating System:
Studio One 19:
Monitor:
Optical Drives
Memory:
Hard Drive:
Video Card
Software
Wireless
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Intel Pentium Dual Core E5400
Windows 7 Home Premium
Pure White
Integrated 18.5 LCD, (WXGA 1366X768)
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
4 GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800 MZ
500 GB Sata (7200 RPM)
nVidia GeForce 9200 Integrated
Microsoft Words 9.0
Internal 802.11 a/b/g/n
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Quote of the Month
"Common sense is not common sense until it's common practice."
-Sean C. Stephenson
Author of Get Off Your But!
Recently Launched Websites
aideMMedia Solutions
www.aidemsolutions.com
D. A. Landis Trucking
www.dalandis.com
Mr. Bill's Seafood
www.mrbillsseafood.com
Oak Leaf Manor
www.copewithalzheimers.com
Tech Client Profile -
Nussbaum Equipment
Need to buy a really big truck?
EZSolution client Nussbaum Equipment has been serving the towing equipment industry since 1957. Founder Eric Nussbaum started selling towing accessories out of his trunk. His initial dedication to his customers has helped to make Nussbaum Equipment one of the largest Jerr-Dan towing equipment dealers in the country.
Nussbaum Equipment is an expert dealer of rollback, wrecker, and tow truck parts, as well as Zacklift truck lifts, providing a full range of new Jerr-Dan rollbacks, and wreckers and Zacklifts.
Nussbaum has been doing business with EZSolution for many years. EZSolution provides complete support for the IT needs of this growing company.
Ruth Fisher says: I never wanted to be an IT person - with Jeff and the crew at EZ I don't need to be because help is only a phone call away. They are friendly, never condescending, and quick to respond, no matter how small or large the problem. EZSolution's remote support is especially helpful to Nussbaum Equipment.
You can check out Nussbaum Equipment on their EZSolution designed and hosted website at www.nussbaumequipment.com
Shiny New Gadget Of The Month
Snagit- ByTechSmith
This month's pick is not really a gadget. It's a cool, inexpensive software program you'll easily get addicted to. Snagit is an easy to use screen capture software that allows you to copy, edit, share and organize images captured off of your computer screen. The more you use Snagit, the more ways you'll find to use it.
For example, if you are working with a designer or programmer to develop a web application or website, Snagit will allow you to capture a screen shot of the web page and add comments, cut and paste sections, add instructions, edit the design, and much more, making your communication much more precise and clear.
Creating a user guide or instruction manual? You'll love Snagit because you can capture segments of a computer screen and add comments and instructions right over the area (or document) you are explaining, making even the most complicated processes and software easy to follow.
Best of all, you can store these images in various image files (jpeg, png, gif, etc.) and cut and paste them into an e-mail, Word document, website, etc. Snagit costs $49.95 for a single user license and can be purchased at www.techsmith.com. If you want to try before you buy, you can download a 30-day free trial at the above website as well.
Dell Computer Alert !
We have received word from Microsoft and Dell that the last date to
order Windows XP preinstalled on systems is October 1, 2010. Beginning October 2, 2010, all systems will be shipped with Windows 7 only.
If you need a new machine and it has to be XP, call Jeff and order now.
Client Profile
-Oak Leaf Manor
Oak Leaf Manor is a personal care and retirement living facility. Over the years, they saw more and more residents needing Alzheimer's care. In December of 2009, they relocated their Memory Care to a new two story wing at their Landisville location. They are currently expanding the Memory Care at their Millersville location.
Lynette Trout is President of Oak Leaf Manor -Here's her story:
"There are very few Personal Care facilities that offer secured memory-support for those with dementia or Alzheimer's.
In addition to marketing our product, though, Oak Leaf Manor also wanted to offer assistance to families in the early stages of dealing with the disease by creating a website,
www.copewithalzheimers.com
to address their questions and provide them with more useful information.
Since we knew that doing this project right would mean getting some outside expertise, we hired a local web development company who had been recommended to us. Unfortunately, the project seemed to take much longer than expected, and eventually much of the work ended up on my desk for completion.
While I was hesitant to work with another web development company after this experience, I found working with EZSolution to be completely different.
Tom took the time to discuss ways of organizing the content for my site in ways that make visitors able to find the information they need.They had our site up and running in under 30 days!
I highly recommend EZSolution to anyone looking to build a website."
Getting to know...
Dave Kachel
Dave Kachel joined EZSolution in May, 2010 as Senior Network Engineer. Dave is MSCE and MCSA certified by Microsoft and has 20 plus years' experience in the Microsoft Windows environment. He previously worked at Rutt Kitchens, TCW Computers and most recently at Quality Custom Cabinets in Leola.
Dave was Network Administrator at Quality Custom Cabinets, where he managed 15 servers, 130 workstations and 90 Terminal Server nodes. Dave has an A.S. from Lancaster Bible College and a B.A. in Industrial Technology from Millersville University.
Dave's role at EZSolution is the technical "go-to guy"for the current technical staff and is assisting Jeff Weaver. The majority of his time is spent in the field at customer locations, working on network issues.
Dave lives north of Lititz with his wife Cindy and two sons, Tim and Matt. Tim is a student at Millersville University and Matt is in 11th grade at Lititz Christian School. Cindy has taught Kindergarten at Lititz Christian School for 16 years.
Dave loves to play golf and do projects around the house. His hope is for more golf time and less projects. He and Cindy enjoy travel and are committed walkers, walking every day for exercise. Dave volunteers at Camp Conquest in Denver, PA as a youth counselor every year and works with youth at Grace Church in Lititz.
Some of Dave's favorites are:
Car - Corvette
Color - Blue
Restaurant - Ruby Tuesday
Sports Team - Eagles
Book - Chronicles of Narnia
The Biggest Threat To Your Company's
Critical, Confidential Data Revealed
If you ask most business owners what the biggest threat to their company's network and data is, they might say, "viruses, hackers and cyber criminals,"or perhaps "faulty hardware, software and system failures". But research is showing a much different reality.
According to a recent study published by Computer Economics (a research and metrics company for IT managers), it was revealed that employee sabotage -whether it be for financial gain, retribution or some other motivation -accounts for a bigger threat than viruses, hackers, hardware failures and natural disasters.
With so much critical data and operations tied up in a company's network, internal sabotage from employees becomes an even greater risk. In a matter of minutes, an employee can delete software or erase years of data vital to a company. They can purposefully download viruses or attempt to tarnish their employer's reputation by posting pornography on their company's website or spamming all clients with racist, hateful and slanderous e-mails. Or they can simply download client lists and other confidential information and sell it to competitors, post it online or use it to start a competitive business.
What are the reasons why they do this? The biggest one given is simply "job dissatisfaction."Another contributing factor seems to be the recent downturn in the economy. Cutbacks, layoffs and fewer raises have given rise to employees stealing data, equipment or money.
For example, a law firm recently discovered their internal IT person was purchasing computer equipment on the company's credit card and reselling it on eBay. He had embezzled over $40,000 before the company caught up to what he was doing.
Another company suspected that one of their employees was stealing and suspended them from work until a further investigation could be conducted. When the employee caught wind of what was happening, the employee deleted over a year's worth of company e-mails -all containing important client records and history -in an effort to cover his tracks. Fortunately this company had a solid backup system in place and was able to immediately recover all the data within a few hours.
To protect yourself, we strongly recommend you have an offsite backup of your data in place. Call Jeff at 717-291-0370 to talk about offsite back up.
Referral Program
We will pay you $25 for any one that you refer to us that we get an appointment with.
When your referral becomes a client (and has spent $1000 or more) then we will pay you $50 more. And, we will give your referral $100 off their purchase.
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If you are not on Facebook you might not realize that you can have a business as well as a personal profile. I know, you are saying "why would I want to do that"? Currently there are more than 400 million users on Facebook and 50% of the users log onto their account in any given day.
Recently Jeff and Tom attended Gary Pica's "Schnizzfest"in Philadelphia. Schnizzfest is a gathering of IT professionals involved in the delivery of managed services. Schnizzers greet each other with a unique hand greeting. At this meeting, Gary decided to have the first annual "Schnizzoff". As you can see from the photo, our own Jeff Weaver was the best "Schnizzer". Check out the video of Jeff (if you haven't already seen it) at :
