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Tired of remembering passwords?

6/30/2014

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Unfortunately passwords are a necessary evil.  We all hate them and we all have to have them.  Just as important is that they need to be complex.  What I mean by complex is our passwords can't be simple words.  Normal, simple password cracking programs can break into those.

There are two things that you can do to make your password difficult to crack:

1)  The longer the better.  8 characters is the minimum you should use but 12 is better.

2)  The more different elements the better.  Use numbers, lower case letters, upper case letters and, if they let you, special characters. (commas, spaces, parenthesis, pound signs, etc.,)

One trick that can make your password easy to remember but hard to break is to make it a word, or phrase and substitute characters that look like the correct letter.

Example: goshopping is very easy to break.  G0 Sh()pping is extremely difficult.
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Print from your Ipad or Iphone

6/24/2014

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Yes, I know that there are lots of expensive printers that offer automatic printing from any Ipad or Iphone but you don't have to pay lots of money or buy anything new.  If you know how to network a printer and have any Windows based computer you can download and install, Windows Air Print.  This allows any Ipad or Iphone to print to any printer that is connected to the computer.

If you want to print from and Android phone or tablet you can install Google cloud print and you are up and running.
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We are hiring!

6/18/2014

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Yes thanks to all of our loyal customers we are looking for help.

Computer Solutions is looking for someone reliable, smart and good at organization.  Experience in one or more of the following would definitely be a help;:  Virus removal, Computer repair, Networking, Desktop support, Phone/pad repair, or accounting.  If you are interested please send a resume to Larry@comptuerkc.com
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Phone fraud alert

6/6/2014

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 A lot of people have been getting phone calls from someone claiming to be from various companies (Microsoft, Dell, Time Warner).  These people will say that they are noticing errors or viruses coming from your computer.  They will ask you to let them on your machine and then they will try to convince you to pay them to clean it up.
 
They will even show you logs with lots of errors.
 
This is a fraud!  Every computer has a log of errors that occur and they are normal.  These people are very good at convincing you pay them money when nothing is wrong.
 
If you have questions about this please feel free to contact me but don't let them on.  No one can, just from the internet, see if you are having errors.  No legitimate company is going to call you to fix things without some pre-arrangement.


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    Larry Goodman is the owner and founder of Computer Solutions.  In his spare time he likes to play on and shop for computers.

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