Category: General
A blog-a-thon is about to begin!
To all my blog subscribers/readers, please excuse the crazy amount of blogging you’re about to see for the next 4-6 weeks. I don’t mean to fill your inbox with heaps of blogs you don’t necessarily care to read, nor drive you crazy! I am going to be teaching a class this summer and am increasing SEO through my blogs to show others how to do this as well. I will warn you now that not every blog will be as fabulous as some of my others, but do check in to make sure you don’t miss anything important! And as always, Call That Girl if you need any tech help!
Don’t forget, 50% off of labor when you drop off your computer repairs at our new St. Louis Park location! Call and schedule an appointment today for side-by-side support: 612-865-4475.
Come visit us!
2316 Louisiana Ave. St. Louis Park, MN 55426Simple Business IT Solutions for Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth
Are you unhappy with your current IT solutions? Do you want to talk?
Or does your company need us if you don’t own the business? Let’s talk!
In the past year, more and more requests have come from my contacts asking if we offer business IT solutions and of course we do, but due to demand of the “Cloud” we have moved to a new outline of offerings for our new clients.
In a nutshell…
- Let’s chat about your current IT needs and see what you need us to do for your company
- Then we will send out one of our techs to do an onsite assessment
- I will figure out a proposal and send to you within a day or so
- You can review and if you have questions, we can talk
- You like what we have to offer and our pricing, we work on an implementation program
That’s it. No monthly fees, no contracts
What we can offer you and your company…
- Antivirus solutions
- Online back up
- Email transitions from your server to the “cloud”
- File sharing software
- Smartphone (iPhone, Droid) device help and calendar, contact synching
- PC and Mac support
- Outlook assistance
- Night and weekend hours (open Sundays too!)
- Remote live helpdesk technicians
- Onsite technicians
- Discounted prepay time available
We have technicians in the Twin Cities, Winona and Duluth.
Email Lisa@callthatgirl.biz today to schedule a phone appointment. Or fill out the form below, thanks!
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We are moving to a new office and need equipment and furniture
Hello to all my social meda friends! Call That Girl is excited to announce that we are moving out of our cozy basement office of the Sunny Ridge Business Complex to our new retail shopping mall storefront/office space in St. Louis Park! We are just moving down the street pretty much.
I just signed the lease last week and we are ready to get moving. We currently have 400 sqft and will have 1500 sqft, that means we need some stuff. If you happen to have some of these items, we are considering barter/trades and cash offers. Barter/trade gets you a better deal of course! Here is our wish list, please share with your friends on social media, thank you!
- Phone systems (up to 4 maybe)
- Reception counter/desk
- Poster frames for pricing signs
- Black front area rugs
- Yard signs
- A used Android phone
- Desk for Lisa (nicer one, not a computer/cubicle desk)
- Work benches (waist high for the techs to stand and work)
- Flat panel monitors
- Large racks for storing computers
- Cubicle walls
We thank you for trying to help us, these things we figured we will need after we move in. Please email lisa@callthatgirl.biz if you can help us out. Thanks again!
Possible LinkedIn hackers leak millions of passwords
First Pinterest, now LinkedIn; it seems like all the popular social media sites are being hacked these days! With LinkedIn,
however, it is not a virus you need to worry about, but your password’s safety instead. There have been reports of a Russian hacker who has leaked nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords. The claim has yet to be confirmed, but LinkedIn has reported that they are looking into the incident. To be safe, I suggest changing your LinkedIn password ASAP and make it complex so that it is harder for hackers to crack. For more information search the internet for “LinkedIn password leak”, it is blanketed across the internet now.
What are the concerns with this reported password leak? In addition to all the private information on these sites becoming available to the world, it is likely that the email addresses connected to the accounts of the stolen passwords are in the hands of the hackers as well. This opens a door of problems for the owners of these emails as the hackers could blast them with infectious spam emails.
To change your password, log into your LinkedIn account and hover over your name in the top right corner. Click on the settings link and find “Password” on the left-hand side of the screen. Click change; you will be prompted to enter your old password and then create a new one. Remember, complexity is the key to safety!
4 tips to help your computer survive a storm
I have been one of those that has lost documents due to a storm. It wasn’t data in my computer, but rather documents I was working on, that I had not saved yet. One power outage and POOF, bye bye they went. That was before the days of auto-save. We here at Call That Girl know when there are massive storms going on, the next day we will get calls from people that had their modems zapped, computers fried or routers blew away from storms. Are you our next client? We hope not for these calls. These calls usually include complete new purchases and are costly. While they may be able to be claimed on an insurance policy, the point is that it’s money you have to put out now and be down with work. The downtime to set up and reconfigure everything and get your data back is the biggest headache of the whole ordeal. Now on to some tips!
Tip #1, if it’s raining out, save often.
Tip #2, if it’s storming out, turn off your computer.
Tip #3, if it’s thundering out, turn off your computer and unplug it from the wall/electric source.
Tip #4, To avoid doing 1, 2 and 3, consider getting one of these babies. Not only do they save your computer from a meltdown, but keep your computer running during the storm. Plug your modem into it and you are still surfing away while lighting is going on. It’s pretty cool to see the first time you are running on a battery during a storm. It’s like a candle almost haha.
They run about $80, sold at most electronic stores.
Now… a computer should not be plugged into one of these…
These are useless. Sure, they are good for getting more power, but do nothing for you in regards to saving you computer during a storm. And I bet most of you have your computer plugged into one right now.
If you can’t afford the $80 price tag on the big power back up, you can consider a cheaper model sold at most Lowe’s, Target, Walmart type stores. These run about $20.
If you need help with figuring out all of your cords and would like a home visit, please fill out this form and we will get back to you to schedule an appt. If you have had your power destroy your computer and you want your data back, we can help with that, too of course. Or better yet, let’s set up online back up today!
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Is Pinterest the perfect camping grounds for viruses?
Pinterest is an online pinboard.
Organize and share things you love.
Now, love that virus you’re about to download.
Think you already have a virus?
Click on the black button to the right of this post to book an appointment!
And now you can send your friends right to viruses, too! Many of you might not know this part of Pinterest, but when you find a picture you love and “Pin it”, you’re basically telling your fellow pinnners to love that pic, too and that they need to click on the picture to pin to their boards. Pinterest hosts the pictures, but then when it is finally “pinned” it can take people right to the website that is hosting the virus (after clicking on the image). The website that is hosting the pictures could have been attacked by a virus and now it’s camping out on the picture, just waiting for pinnners to pin, click and download a virus in less than a minute.
What can you do? Not much. If you pin the picture virus free you will never know. If the site becomes tainted, your future pinners will probably get it after clicking on the image, unless they have awesome protection. My client that called in this a.m. had McAfee protection and it sailed right past the security features McAfee offered. He didn’t even click on the image, he typed it in manually. If you get a virus, call us at 612-865-4475 immediately!
Watch our Youtube video to find out what you should watch out for now that you know this is a possibility.
Research has turned up little information on the laws regarding Pinterest and this issue, although I did discover another virus report. To read more, I found this blog about a clever Pinterest virus sneak.
http://doktorspinn.com/2012/03/18/clever-pinterest-virus-a-first-for-the-booming-image-site/
