Monday, December 27, 2010

IPods for everyone

We value everyone that helped us identify new opportunities, so we wanted to show our appreciation! Since we love gadgets, we thought by offering an iPod Nano to EVERYONE that refers a new small business with 5 or more computers, would be a cool gift! New business =New iPod
Let’s have a great year
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Neotec Computer would like to say thank you for another great year. Here is a 2010 recap:

Naperville is the town that had the most computer viruses.

Wheaton had the most computers damaged by power outages and lightning

Wheaton was also the the town with most damaged hard drives, Downers Grove was a close second.

We fixed nearly 800 computers and networked over 300.

Technology can be a great time saver or the biggest time waster.

Let us know how we can help.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

It is great to have a job that helps people. I was in wheaton today and was able to recover all of the photos from a bad hard drive

Monday, December 20, 2010

****VIRUS ALERT**** Keep an eye out for this one. Its called Think Point and it pops up when you first boot up. Its very dificult to get rid of and quickly becomes rooted. If you have any questions. go to my contact page at http://www.neoteccomputer.com/Naperville_computer_repair.htm

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Holiday Scam 1: "Free iPad Giveaway!"
Apple's recently-released iPad is a popular item this holiday season, so naturally criminals are using that to hook people.

Be safe

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I have seen so many 'Get a free iPad by filling out a survey' ads already," said Jones. "Kinect (for the gaming system Xbox 360) is the other one."

But usually these offers are just a ploy to get you to a site where you are typically asked for credit card numbers 'to cover a small shipping charge' or other sensitive information in order to receive the prize. Your credit information is used by the con artist for nefarious purposes, and you get nothing. Stay away from these kinds of offers, said Jones.

"Apple is not going to give out a free iPad. They are not going to authorize anyone to give out a free iPad."

Researchers at McAfee Labs also found this ruse running rampant on Facebook and Twitter.

"In the social media version of the scam, users take a quiz to win a free iPad and must supply their cell phone number to receive the results. In actuality they are signed up for a cell phone scam that costs $10 a week. "

Thursday, December 16, 2010

****VIRUS ALERT****

Keep an eye out for this one. Its called Think Point and it pops up when you first boot up. Its very dificult to get rid of and quickly becomes rooted. If you have any questions. go to my contact page at

http://www.neoteccomputer.com/Contact_Neotec.php

Monday, November 15, 2010

Google plans to support Android phones with near-field communications chips in the next version of Android, which CEO Eric Schmidt said today would arrive in the next few weeks.

Near-field communications chips allow for fast short-range wireless transmissions, and credit card companies believe that those transmissions are actually more secure than the mag-stripe technology on your current credit cards, Schmidt said in a discussion with reporters following his discussion with Web 2.0 Summit hosts Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle. Credit cards aren't going away for quite some time, but Google is interested in getting the technology out in front of developers in order to see what happens, he said.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Microsoft Security Patches Plug 11 Vulnerabilities

By: Brian Prince
2010-11-09

Microsoft released an update to patch 11 vulnerabilities this month, including a critical bug affecting Microsoft Outlook users.

A month after breaking its record for the largest Patch Tuesday update in history, Microsoft released a much smaller round of fixes Nov. 9 with just three security bulletins.

The bulletins cover a total of 11 vulnerabilities across Microsoft Office and Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). Just one of the bulletins is rated "Critical" – MS10-087, which addresses five vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Among those five is a rich text format stack buffer overflow vulnerability Microsoft considers likely to be exploited.

“The bulletin is rated Critical for Office 2007 and Office 2010 due to a preview pane vector in Outlook that could trigger the vulnerability when a customer views a specially crafted malicious RTF (Rich Text Format) file,” explained Jerry Bryant, group manager of response communications for Microsoft Security Response Center, in a blog post. “The update also addresses an Office vector for the vulnerability described in Security Advisory 2269637, which has been referred to as 'DLL Preloading' and 'Binary planting'.”

A second bulletin affecting Microsoft Office deals with two vulnerabilities in PowerPoint that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a malicious PowerPoint file, according to Microsoft. The bulletin is rated "Important" because user interaction is required to open the malicious file, Bryant blogged.

The final bulletin, also rated Important, plugs four vulnerabilities in UAG, which is part of Microsoft Forefront. The most significant of these bugs could allow elevation of privilege if a user clicks on a malicious link on a Website, Bryant noted, adding the update is only being offered through the Microsoft Download Center at the moment.

Josh Abraham, security researcher from Rapid7, said the critical bulletin should be at the top of enterprise patch lists this month.

"Based on the huge amount of patches from last month, some customers might be up to speed while others are still struggling to catch up – this would depend on the unique customer and the strength of their vulnerability management program,” Abraham said. “Another thing that is interesting is that Microsoft has been breaking their own records with the number of bulletins they are releasing in a given month. To help everyone overall, a better approach would be to keep a semi-constant rate of patches every month so that system administrators are not over burdened during specific months."

He added that administrators should also remain vigilant for attacks targeting the recently disclosed zero-day in Internet Explorer as well. That vulnerability has not been patched.

So far, Microsoft said, none of the vulnerabilities addressed in today’s update have been targeted by attackers.

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Queen of England Officially Joins Facebook

Although you can't exactly poke her, Queen Elizabeth is now among the more than 500 million members of Facebook.

The British Monarchy on Monday launched its own Facebook fan page to provide news and information about the royal family.

More than 74,000 people have already "liked" the Facebook page. With it, users can see pictures of different members of the family, can get updates through their News Feed, and find events in their area.

Britain's royal family isn't new to social networking. In 2007, it set up a YouTube channel. The monarchy has been tweeting under the @BritishMonarchy handle since 2009, and announced that the Facebook page was live on the micro-blogging site. Earlier this year, the royal family expanded its online presence with an official photostream on image-sharing site Flickr.

"If you look at the royal forays into technology and social media, we were already pretty much everywhere," a spokesman for the royal family said in a Time report. "Facebook was really the last area we didn't have a presence."

A two-person team manages the monarchy's Facebook page. This same team also monitors the other three online profiles as well as the British royal family's official Web site. Shortly after the page went live at 8 Greenwich Mean Time, the team was already sifting through potentially offensive comments, according to Time. With a growing number of Facebook fans, however, the reception from users has been mostly positive.

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Microsoft today announced several enhancements to its Windows Server platform, aimed at giving IT buyers hardware and software configurations ready for use as part of a private cloud.

The new platform additions, which were announced as part of Microsoft's annual TechEd event going on this week, are dubbed Hyper-V Cloud. This is essentially a blueprint for the software and hardware configurations that Microsoft's customers and partners can use to get a private cloud set up quickly and without changing hardware buying habits.

These configurations are highlighted in a new program called Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track, which sets each configuration up against the company's private cloud reference criteria. This goes hand in hand with a new Hyper-V deployment guide, which breaks down how 200 companies of varying sizes and server set-ups have created their own private clouds using Microsoft's software and cloud services pairings.

As part of the Hyper-V Cloud push, Microsoft has also partnered with server hardware vendors like Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and NEC. For the past six months these companies have been working with Microsoft in mixed engineering teams to come up with hardware and software combinations that would meet the right specifications. IT buyers who are looking to use Microsoft's system can then identify the right hardware to get, which has effectively been given the thumbs-up for compatibility.

Neotec

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Galaxy Tab and iPad demos
Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demonstrated some ideas last week at Adobe's Max conference using first an Android-based Samsung Galaxy Tab and then an Apple iPad.

In the first demonstration, he showed Photoshop's content-aware fill technology that can add some smarts to the deletion of phone lines, ex-boyfriends, or other elements of an image. He used his finger to paint over an image of a grouse against a green field. After a few seconds of processing, the application filled in the area with more green grass.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I have been working on building and promoting pages for each towns that I service here is an example: http://www.neoteccomputer.com/Naperville_computer_repair.htm

Monday, November 1, 2010

In celebration of All Saints' Day Neotec is offering $20 off any service. The week of Nov 1
Please visit us at http://www.neoteccomputer.com

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween, Watch out for official looking Spam Emails that will come today. several contain virus's and malware. Be safe and don't open unsolicited attachments

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Good morning. When was the last time you did a antivirus scan? If you don't know, today is the day to start http://www.Neoteccomputer.com

Friday, October 29, 2010

"Suspicious packages discovered in Dubai and England in air cargo shipments to the U.S. contained explosive materials and appeared headed for Jewish places of worship in Chicago, President Obama confirmed Thursday afternoon".


I don't get it was there explosive or not?
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Lawyer Sues Facebook Claiming Other Users Defamed Him
from the they-don't-teach-section-230? dept

It's always impressive when you see lawyers file lawsuits which suggest they're not entirely familiar with the law. Eric Goldman points us to a lawsuit filed by a Nevada lawyer, Jonathan Goldsmith, suing Facebook and two Facebook users for defamation, due to some mean Facebook comments.
Of course, Section 230 clearly shields Facebook from the actions of its users in defamation cases. As a lawyer, aren't you supposed to be aware of the law? There are some other oddities in the lawsuit as well, such as claiming both slander and libel for the Facebook comments. Normally, slander applies to spoken comments, libel to written. Now, I recall at least one case (in the UK, not the US), where the court suggested online forums were more like slander than libel, but it still seems a bit odd to see it in this case. And, either way, he claims both slander and libel. There are a few other oddities as well, including a claim that the mean comments on Facebook caused him to "seize" advertising on the site. I'm assuming he meant "cease"?

Yet again, it seems like sometimes even when people say mean stuff about you online, which might not be true, it's better to just shrug it off than filing a lawsuit, drawing a lot more attention to the mean things... and anything else that might get attention.
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You can find Neotec Computer on Facebook name Neotec8 or you can go to our website http://www.neoteccomputer.com
For All The Cyberwar Talk, Turns Out There Have Been Fewer Attacks On The Pentagon's Network
from the cyberlull dept

For all the recent talk of "cyberwar," with particular emphasis on the idea that hackers in foreign countries were bombarding US gov't and military institutions with constant internet attacks, it now turns out that "incidents of malicious cyber activity" against the Pentagon have been on the decline this year. There still have been plenty of attempts to breach the network, but it's a much lower number than in the past. And that seems to contradict what Pentagon officials have been saying.

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, who's been leading the charge for why the Pentagon should be in charge of cybersecurity, recently claimed that the frequency was increasing exponentially. Except that's not true, apparently. The NSA, who is the main group within the Defense Department that wants to handle cybersecurity, apparently had its boss specifically (falsely) claim that he was "alarmed by the increase, especially this year." Of course, there are still plenty of attacks -- no one is denying that, but it's even more evidence that the folks looking to use this to gain more power are clearly exaggerating what's going on.
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Virus levels jumped up 111% between August 2009 and August 2010, with a new record of 188 million viruses being blocked in a single day, according to the Official Google Enterprise Blog. "August saw a massive 241% increase in virus volume over July, representing the greatest recorded surge in viral activity since 2008. This recent increase in viral activity could indicate a 'gearing up' as spammers attempt to construct botnets in time for the holiday season and increased consumer spending."
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has anyone herd when Chase is releasing the app for android. It would be great to be able to take a picture of a check and have it deposited into my checking account

Neotec

Thursday, October 28, 2010

I need your help. As you know I own http://www.neoteccomputer.com I am changing the keywords for my site and need your feedback.

1. have you used a computer repair service
2. did they come to your house
3. did you use Geek Squad if so would you recommend them
4. what term did you use to find the service
5 did you choose the top listing or look for a specific phrase
PC Magazine - In lieu of concrete details on any other Android tablets, Samsung's Galaxy tablet could be the first genuine iPad competitor to talk about in months.

All we know for sure about the Samsung tablet is that it runs Android and measures 7 inches, Reuters reports. Rumor has it that the tablet will be called either the Galaxy Tab or Galaxy Tape. It will reportedly run Android 2.2 on a 1.2 GHz A8 processor, with a Super AMOLED screen, 16 GB of internal storage, 32 GB MicroSD expansion, and weigh 0.82 pounds. Samsung's TouchWIZ user interface may be used, and the tablet could otherwise look like Samsung's Galaxy S phones.

Sounds promising but I think I will wait for a larger screen before I take the leap. Neotec

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

I don't get the buzz about the Apple Ipad I just don't get it. I would really like to know your opinion.
1. Do you own one and if so what do you think
2. would you consider getting one
3. are you waiting for something better
4. do you think that this is going to replace laptops

have you been to my web site. http://www.neoteccomputer.com
I have a computer repair business that is hard to market. The trouble is that I get all of my business within 20 minutes of my location. So if you look at my site that I'm hoping to improve my position. I have made this sub page for each town like: http://www.neoteccomputer.com/Naperville_computer_repair.htm or http://www.neoteccomputer.com/Wheaton_computer_repair.htm you can see that each page is identical in content but has been branded for each town. if you drill down and look at the key words they are complementary the the page content

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Ok short on time but wanted to get started. Lets look at my web page and break it down. this is my index page : http.www.neoteccomputer.com look at the title this is very important to Google as it will be the main focus. during a search such as : naperville computer repair the user can only see the title and this needs to be no longer than 70 characters. next we want to make sure that the keywords match the page. look at my index page vs http://www.neoteccomputer.com/Virusus_and_Spyware.html you can see that I changed the keywords to match the title, content and key words on the page.
Google Readies Nexus One Follow-up, Launching by Christmas?






Has Google already created the follow-up device to its Nexus One?  According to reports today from the UK, the Nexus Two (we’ll call it) is built, loaded with Gingerbread, and will be sold exclusively through Carphone Warehouse by X-mas.  (Who?)  A company based out of the UK, meaning if this rumor is true, Google must already have some plans to hook up with a U.S. retailer to distribute this puppy stateside, right?   (more…)computer

Page rank Through Blogging

So you have a great website like: http://www.netotecomputer.com Now what. Well its time to get the word out. As an administrator you need to post links, write blogs and get as many prople to your site as possible. In the next few weeks I plan to show you how to improve page rank and get more traction. this will equal more business
Page rank Through Blogging

So you have a great website like: www.netotecomputer.com Now what. Well its time to get the word out. As an administrator you need to post links, write blogs and get as many prople to your site as possible. In the next few weeks I plan to show you how to improve page rank and get more traction. this will equal more business


Motorola has released an update to its Media Link software that includes a ton of new features like syncing of iTunes and Media Player files without having to pull your teeth out.  After just a quick 20 minutes of testing, this update appears to have revived the software and might even get some usage from me.  I’ve used DoubleTwist in the past and it always stays on my computer for 5 minutes before the frustrations kick in and I have to uninstall it, but this new Media Link looks like it’ll be a keeper.



Oh, this might only work with Motorola devices.


Download it here.


Cheers Jim!


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I'm not sure if posting short links will have any value like computer or do i have to list a full link: http://ping.fm/JQoDp Personally I think a short link would be acceptable and looks so much better.
Google says that "Hiding text or links in your content can cause your site to be perceived as untrustworthy since it presents information to search engines differently than to visitors. [...]

Hidden links are links that are intended to be crawled by Googlebot, but are unreadable to humans. [...]

If your site is perceived to contain hidden text and links that are deceptive in intent, your site may be removed from the Google index, and will not appear in search results pages."

So this is how my website www.neoteccomputer.com
would look if I used HTML to hide it: Neotec Computer
The SEO value drops dramatically when you convert this.
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