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If we do our parts to keep the software and operating system of our computers up to date at home and at the office, we can partner with big companies like Adobe and Microsoft to fight hackers wherever they strike. These measures won’t stop hackers completely because computer criminals are notoriously determined bad guys. But we can fight back with every tool we have. And if we do that, most of the time, the good guys will win.
In the world of multi track recording, the DigiDesign Pro Tools kit has long dominated as the top of the line product in this market. The reasons for that dominance are many. This particular suite leads the competition in audio editing features that are state of the art. This forward thinking design combined with top quality machinery and outstanding support of plug and play devices makes DigiDesign Pro a leader in audio editing technology.
For any data processing professional, the protection of client data is a high priority. Not only is a huge amount of effort put into the integrity and usability of data, significant expense and work is done to make sure that data is not disclosed beyond the relationship between a customer and the institution. [...]
We have gotten to the point that a PC or Laptop is almost a home appliance. The technology changes and improves so rapidly these days that it is pretty much a given that you should plan to replace your computer every three years or less. For a business, that can mean dozens of [...]
A systems administrator has a big job. The job description for systems administration seems to take in just about anything management can think up. At the same time, systems administrators become very possessive of the systems they care for because every aspect of the operation of those systems is their job. In [...]
An IT person must approach the challenge of finding a new job in a very particular way. Because your skills are specialized, you are not going to apply to every job that is in the newspaper. The approach you should take to find good jobs and then how to craft your resume and your strategy [...]
Most IT department managers or project leaders grow up out of the IT technical ranks. That is a good thing. For one thing, an IT manager must have the ability to talk intelligently with technical experts. If he or she cannot sustain the respect of a staff of highly trained and talented IT developers, that [...]
Google has all the traits of a company that we all are all going to hate to love but love to hate. The more they take over big application after big application, we have this natural, and very Australian ‘tall-poppy’, instinct to look at that kind of empire building with skepticism. We worried and were skeptical [...]
Application Development for Mobile Computing Explodes Unless you live in a cave, you already know that the huge surge of popularity for mobile applications is the next big technological paradigm shift. The days when a mobile phone was only a phone are long behind us now. And judging by the speed of technological development [...]
The Rise of Navigation Systems Remember paper maps? You’d take them out of the glove compartment or boot, unfold them, flip them around, and it would take you some ten minutes to find where you are on the map, before you could find where you were going. Later map books were a small improvement, [...]
