Backing up your data is very important!

Your hard drive WILL eventually fail. All the data you have stored may or may not be recoverable.

Data recovery services can be very expensive.

The best insurance is to backup your data frequently, retire your backup drive and replace it with a new one once a year.  A retired backup drive can still be used for many task,

Don’t wait until your system crashes it could be very expensive to recover and even impossible. Call us today. We are data recovery experts!

Cutting cost can help offset some of the loss of income due to the turbulent economy.

Here a few items you might consider scaling back or if possible eliminating until the return of the glory days.

Cable TV (cut back a few channels, de-activate satellite boxes in rooms you don’t use)

Internet (reduce your bandwidth speed, use internet cafes)

Cell Phone (go with unlimited service and eliminate the need for your home phone, or get the most basic plan for emergencies only)

Home Phone (most people don’t need a home phone)

VOIP (get the most out of your internet connection, great for long distance and international calls)

Electric (turn off lights when you’re not in the room, turn off all appliances when you’re not using them, reduce the temperature on your hot water heater, get an automatic timed thermostat)

Trash (sort your garbage and make weekly trips to the recycle center/landfill)

Alarm Monitoring (put monitoring on hold/freeze until you can afford it again)

Food (use coupons purchase items on sale, join a wholesale warehouse and buy in bulk)

Auto Insurance (review your insurance policy and make sure all you information is correct make sure you’re not overpaying, set your deductable to a number you can live with)

Lawn (do you own landscaping, cut your grass)

Call us today!

We’re here to help you.

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Don’t Panic!

First, don’t panic!!! We receive so many calls from clients that are panicking about viruses.

Here are some steps to try to deal with viruses.

1. Update your antivirus program by doing an internet update.
2. Run a full virus scan on your computer. (delete any viruses found)
3. Restart your computer, run the full virus scan again.
4. If you still have virus activity after all this, you need professional help.

DO NOT:

1. Purchase software that claims it will remove this virus from your computer.
2. Google search and frantically download the first software that claims to remove the virus
3. Attempt to delete items from the registry based on a random search of the virus on a search engine.

Call on us, we’re here to help you!

There are many anti virus programs out there. You’ve heard of all the heavily marketed products.

But here are a few FREE antivirus programs that provide the same protection the expensive paid programs provide. The license agreement requires these only be used on your home computer.

AVG

Clam

Avira

Download and check them out. Why pay annually to renew a product when you can get the same protection for FREE.

In this time of economic downturn make the most out of the technology you already have.

A website is a great tool to provide your potential and existing clients information about new products and services.

A BLOG is even better. It allows you to keep your current website with all the most important information while providing frequent updates about your business, products, services, even your staff.

An email campaign is a great way to reach out to your existing clients. They already have a relationship with you. They know and trust you, your products and services. Your clients want to know when you are offering new products, services and special promotions.

Newsletters are another way to better inform your existing clients. These are the people that keep your business going. Don’t forget them, don’t forget the 80/20 rule.

Call us if you need a website, blog, or help with your internet marketing. We offer a very professional, low cost, turn key package.

Make sure you submit your website to our FREE FFA link server. (below)

http://www.lsbcomputerservices.com/ffa/

FFA links are a great way to advertise your website. If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to call us.

We know how tough it is out there.

Every Wednesday we are offering the pay what you can computer service. We’ll help you resolve your issues whether it’s a virus, spyware, bad hardware, printing or networking we’ll get you fixed up in a hurry.

Call us ahead of time and make your appointment.

We’re here for you.

Dell printers require services in order to operate successfully. Often times we receive calls about printing, the cause is some or all the services required to operate the software have been disabled.

The same case is true of many software applications. If the services required to run the program are disabled the software will not operate properly.

Simply reinstalling the software will not resolve this problem. You must manually enable the services so the program will operate properly.

As always, call us if you need support.

There are so many social networking sites out there you could spend your whole day updating all of them. The next big thing. A social networking site that will update all your other sites with one click. Maybe someday.

UPDATE: Google and Twitter are now working together. TWOOGLING has arrived!

http://eposter.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-in-twitter.html

Until then, I recommend sticking with them all. Whether your looking for a job, a friend, or networking these sites get your name out there and you’re in control of what’s on the site. It’s always a good idea to remember people are watching. They are all watching. friends, ex-friends, co-workers, employers, ex-employers, neighbors, clients and everyone else you can think of.

Keep your site professional, up-to-date and only provide need to know info. Everyone is watching.