http://twocoolbees.com information technology services for data, voice, and web in central florida Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So... the news is making a big deal out of this Internet Explorer bug... and rightly so if you're on a corporate network. Someone can gain control of your PC through some flaws in Internet Explorer. Microsoft has released a patch and their "official" page on the deal is here:  MS08-078 - ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/12/microsoft-update-for-internet-explorer/ Keep a wary eye for this one.  A client has reported receiving mutiple spoof Hallmark E-Card emails that have a virus attached. The message looks something like this: From what I've been able to find, the email has a Trojan virus attached and the link that it goes to can take you ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/09/fake-hallmark-email-spam-with-virus-attachment/ They say if it sounds too good to be true it is, right?  In this case... WRONG.   I have a client who has been using the MagicJack for 3 months now and loves it. The MagicJack is a USB dongle that plugs into your computer and gives you a phone jack ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/08/magicjack-unlimited-calling-in-the-us-for-20yr/ Okay.  So I'm "one-upping" myself from yesterday.  Yesterday I posted about a program that allows you to sync one calendar in Outlook to multiple Google Calendars.  That's nice, but what if you have multiple calendars in Outlook? We found this program called OggSync for one of my clients who has 10 ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/08/oggsync/ Okay.. so I've had clients ask to do this and found many hacked up poor solutions in the past.  None that I would give professionally.  But that's all about to change. This is going to sound like an ad, but I'm giddy because I've been looking for this particular solution ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/08/companionlink-for-google/ If you're anything like us you run LogMeIn Hamachi at a few locations.  It helps with creating a VPN for small networks easily and it's FREE for most of the locations we run and it's inexpensive for the servers that we run it on as a service. We have noticed a ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/08/time-to-upgrade-logmein-hamachi/ Want to create web page thumbnails like the one below? What about making external links show a preview bubble?  (I set this up on the link below so you could see what I'm talking about) You can do this for FREE! Go here to websnapr.com Very cool. http://twocoolbees.com/2008/08/web-thumbnails-for-your-site/ We've been getting reports in of some really well crafted fake emails that are sure to make your life more interesting than you planned. One that has gotten most people is a FEDEX email scam.  It tells you that you have an issue with a package you recently sent and gets ... http://twocoolbees.com/2008/08/spam-scam-craziness/