Information Technology

The 48HL Event, hosted by The Company Lab, is an event for entrepreneurs to develop their business idea with the help of volunteers and to show what they accomplished 48 hours later. An event that has occurred for a couple of years, the 48HL is quickly becoming popular among startups in Chattanooga. Next week, another 48HL begins Friday evening (November 11, 2011), and concludes the following Sunday evening. Smooth Stone Services has chosen to participate in this event.

There are two parts to this Blog Post: The Introduction to Twitter and the Twitter Glossary below it.

The following are 3 broad suggestions that I gave to a nonprofit organization who I used to work for full time, in administering their servers, in an email (which I just wrote for free). While Smooth Stone Services does provide consulting and server administration services, the following are some best practices that I have no problem "giving away". Incidentally, we hope that this article will help our potential (future) system administration clients in determining that we really do know what we're talking about, and we really do have your best interests in mind.

Smooth Stone Services is committed to providing excellent customer service. As it says on our home page, "Our mission is to provide affordable information technology services to organizations seeking to transform poor communities around the world, and to provide a crucial role in a community’s transformation by providing technology education and jobs to its members." We feel that the best way for us to do this is to provide quality web hosting and technology solutions.

We have created this page as a resource of free programs & utilities that could be helpful to our webhosting clients.

As non-government organizations (NGOs), community development organizations require a lot of assistance in the technology sector, as their primary focus is on assisting the people who they seek to assist. If an organization does domestic development in the United States, the technology know-how and resources available might be a little more accessible than to an organization that does international development (like World Vision or Food for the Hungry, to name a few).

The Virus

April First is always a bad time of year for computer viruses, and this past April Fool's Day is no different. You may have read articles recently about a virus called Conficker. Despite the amount of media attention that Conficker has received over recent weeks, millions of computers worldwide continue to be infected by the virus.

If you are a Microsoft Windows user, like most people, chances are good that you have experienced the frustration of having a computer virus. Viruses can be obtained many ways. The most common way is through an email attachment. When you receive an email that contains a virus as an attachment, and you open that attachment, the virus will then install itself onto your computer, and will then usually exploit your Address Book to send an email (from your email address) to all of your contacts. This is unfortunate, as all of your contacts will receive an email that they think is from you.

Introduction

This short article will describe why and how, when you open an attachment in Microsoft Word, you need to click on "SAVE AS" and not "SAVE" when you save it for the first time

You and/or your friends are working on a Microsoft Word Document, you email it to yourself, and then you open the attachment. You click on "Save," so surely the changes that you make to the file are safe, right?

WRONG!!!