For many service and repair companies advertising has drifted from the Yellow pages and other print publishing to the world of Google. Just creating a website and forgetting it is no longer an option either. Constantly adding new content and updating it is crucial to show up in the search engines. Unfortunately that is not even enough.
Many people have found the hard way, that the content that he or she has written has been copied to another company’s site to promote their business. This can hurt you in more ways than you may realize. Google will actually punish you if your site is “duplicated” even if you had nothing to do with it. Fortunately there is a good preventive measure to use. It is called Copyscape http://www.copyscape.com. It will go and check the content of your site to others for plagiarism and bring back the results. You might be surprised at the results. It is free and will help in keeping your business thriving.
Copied content on your Website
Backing up with Time Machine
As a Mac computer repair tech and consultant. I am constantly amazed by the number of people who have not backed up their data. The reasons are endless, “I have been meaning to”, or “I don’t have one”, or “I don’t know how to backup”. Then the time comes when the hard drive finally becomes unreadable and fails. Data recovery is expensive and time consuming. While most Mac users have heard of Time Machine on the Mac for backing up, many have neglected to use it. Just about any external hard drive will work that connects via USB in the back of your Mac. When you plug it in, it happily asks if you would like to use this device as a backup. By clicking on yes, the data is copied from your MacBook, iMac or whatever to the external drive. It will continuously backup and add to the backup what you have added throughout the day. When the time comes recovering the lost file or entire drive is very easy. If you have any questions about Time Machine or would like to have someone install it. Call us!
MacNet Will Do What AppleCare Won’t
As reported on ZDNet, a confidential internal Apple document tells the company’s front-line support people how to handle customers who call about malware infections:
Don’t confirm or deny that an infection exists, and whatever you do, don’t try to remove it.
For so many years, Mac users have grown accustomed to not having to deal with viruses, malware, spyware, and so on. It was just a “fact of life on a Mac.” However, some Mac users as of late have had to deal with the Mac Defender virus. Since having a warning pop up in front of your face while surfing the net has not been something Mac users have seen, many people think the warning is actually coming from Apple and will click on the link. While this is a new phenomenon, it has nothing to do with the security of Mac OS X. Macs are still not susceptible to viruses. The MacDefender program does absolutely nothing but ask you for payment and will open adult sites if you don’t pay up. While this is definitely bad, there’s not much Mac OS X could have done to prevent it from happening.
AppleCare does not provide support for removal of the malware, but MacNet will. We’ll help you resolve this issue if you happened to click on the link and installed the program; which is going by names such as– Mac Defender, Apple Security, and a few less used name variants. So far the only difference between them are the names. MacDefender is not a worm, not a virus, and not a true Torjan horse; although it falls under the general term “malware” — as in, it’s malicious in some way.
If an installation starts and you don’t know what program it is or why it’s there, quit the program; Don’t click on it to see what it’s all about. Most importantly, if it’s asking you for your Mac’s Administrator password and you don’t know why, don’t enter it. If you’re not sure whether or not your Mac has been infected with ANY sort of malware or spyware, contact us to schedule an appointment and we’ll check it for you.
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Long Live iCloud
Apple CEO Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off Apple Inc.’s latest innovations. Admitting that its $99 MobileMe subscription service “wasn’t our finest hour,” Steve Jobs killed the program Monday and replaced it with the new, and 100% free, iCloud. MobileMe is no longer accepting new subscribers. If you’re a current member, you can still access everything as usual through June 30, 2012.
