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Wake Up Your Website

February 10th, 2016

Does your company website reflect its current success and position it for future growth?
To be sure it does, do this:

Focus your main message on customer needs. The only thing visitors care about is what your company can do for them. Make that clear upfront and they’ll stay and engage.

Best App For Mileage Tracking

February 4th, 2016

After using paper and pencil, I finally decided to search for an app to make my mileage tracking easier. After much testing, the winner is MileIQ. At $5/month, it's not the cheapest app you'll ever download, but in my opinion, it's worth it.

After downloading the app to your smartphone, it runs in the background.

AGJ Is Growing Into Jackson County

January 27th, 2016

We're growing. Thanks to all of our clients for growth through the past few years.

Thanks to all of our clients for growth through the past few years. To broaden our footprint and offer managed technology services to a greater number of clients, we've expanded into Jackson County.

A Backup You Can Fall In Love With!

January 21st, 2016

In today's fast-paced, data-driven world, backups are mission-critical to your company's survival and success...

Yet your data may be just one damaged drive, lost laptop, natural disaster, accidental deletion, malware attack, equipment failure, power spike, hurricane, flood, or petty theft away from a profit-sucking, heartbreaking disaster.

IT Budgeting – How Much?

January 13th, 2016

How much should you spend on technology?

At this time every year, we’ve usually wrapped up most of our client meetings to discuss end-of-year budgets. For our managed clients, we look at their technology needs and trends over the past year. We also look at upcoming security concerns (e.g. Microsoft or Cisco no longer supporting a product), business growth plans, or new technology that can aid the overall achievement of the goals of the business.

Is Windows 10 Right For Your Business?

January 4th, 2016

For the past few months, we’ve been swamped with questions about Windows 10. If you’re wondering whether now is the best time to upgrade your system, here’s what you need to know:

First and foremost, if your organization relies on your computers to make money, consider the risks carefully.

Section 179 – Upped Again!

December 21st, 2015

They've done it again...waited until the last minute to increase the Section 179 tax deduction...
Section 179 Upped Deduction Cap!
The Section 179 tax deduction (www.section179.org) will expire on 12/31/15.

Section 179 allows you to deduct up to $2,000,000 worth of equipment (hardware and software) from your 2015 taxes.

Dell Superfish Threat

December 7th, 2015

Last month, it was determined that Dell has been shipping computers with a preinstalled digital certificate that would allow hackers to easily impersonate secure websites (like your bank's website)...

At this time, at least four models of Dell laptops and desktops (Inspiron, XPS, and older Precision and Latitude models) were shipping with this digitial certificate (issued by eDellRoot).

Basically, this digital certificate would allow someone to use the preinstalled certificate to extract the key to sign fake security certificates.

What’s A Hot Spare?

December 7th, 2015

Every office needs a spare PC that is available if needed. What if you had a failed hard drive? What if you spilled coffee into your PC? What if you have a new employee starting and need a PC as soon as possible?

In all of these cases, you could be without a PC for several hours.

VTech – Toy Hack

December 2nd, 2015

Toymaker VTech has announced that it was recently hacked to the tune of 6.4 million profiles...

On November 24, VTech announced that it discovered a hack that allowed criminals to steal email addresses, passwords, mailing addresses, as well as names and brithdays of children.