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The Underground — A Place Teens can Learn and Experience the Music Industry, Hang, be Cool, and Safe!

Check this out . . . ever heard of The Underground “The UG” in Cincinnati, Ohio? The Underground is a state-of-the-art club concert venue, which provides top-quality, live entertainment from local and national music acts. It is an open-floor venue with a 1200 person capacity (limited seating available) with full sound and lights available. It …

Microsoft and the Cloud — what it means for education

Ray Fleming at Microsoft “There’s recently been a lot of discussion within education about different models of ICT services. Individual universities have tended to use a mix of services provided on-premise and cloud-basedservices . And newer models of teaching and learning have accelerated the trend towards cloud-based services – and at the very least, services which absolutely rely …

You Go Girl! The Cincinnati Scurry presents Crystal with her “Fratastic” Award and Sash!

Aching muscles, lingering leg cramps and lots of smiles are all that’s left of the 2012 Cincinnati Scurry (www.thescurry.com).  Oh, but there is one more thing . . . Crystal’s award!  Congrats Crystal on winning the “Flip Cup” award and being “memorable” at this year’s scurry.       

iPad Stylus Advice — Surprising IT Pick

From Ellis Hamburger at The Verge: “If you’re purchasing a stylus so you can write notes on your iPad, you’re going to be disappointed. None of the styli I tested had narrow enough tips to provide the agility to scrawl anything but quick notes, doodles, and scribbles. But, if you’re interested in drawing with apps …

Afidence Applause for Rob Sibert “Oh, You Aren’t Rob? Hmmm.”

Recently, Bryan (Owner & President of Afidence) visited one of our clients in Pennsylvania.  As he entered the client’s offices, a woman excitedly approached him and asked if he was Rob Sibert (our ace Sr. Lead Managed Services Engineer), surprised Bryan said, “No, I’m Bryan Hogan.”  The woman  shook Bryan’s hand and quickly went back …

Does your IT Support feel a lot like this?

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Kaspersky: Apple ’10 years behind Microsoft in terms of security’

The time of security through obscurity for Mac is ending . . . From:  Emil Protalinski | April 25, 2012 “Kaspersky Lab last week detailed why the increasing market share of the Apple Mac means more malware on the platform. Eugene (Yevgeny) Kaspersky, co-founder and CEO of the security firm, has now gone further while attending …

Afidence Applause Happy Administrative Professional Day Christine Olding from the Afidence Team! You are great!

Christine has been with the Afidence team for about 9 months as our Executive Administrative Assistant and she ROCKs!  Thanks Christine for being our Radar O’Reilly (only much,  much prettier)! Christine enjoying her special day . . . . . . a little seriousness and a little fun with some relaxation gifts!

Careful what you Post! Careful what you Tweet!

A Word to the Wise . . . Recently, a California family’s daughter “Facebooked” the exciting news that she and her family were going to Hawaii for vacation.  500 teenagers later the police were called in and the unwanted/uninvited guests were removed from the family’s home (after considerable damage was done to the entire property). Lesson to learn . . …

Tech Tip by Marion Baughn at Afidence: Laptop Reimaging — Microsoft License Key Issue

A recent issue involving the scenario of a laptop that had to be completely reimaged. I had all the license keys for the relevant software, however the installation media I have for Microsoft Office would not work with the license key. Note:  This particular installation of Office was a preinstall from Dell and only came with a …