Misunderstanding Chaucer - The April Fools Post
According to Wikipedia, April Fool’s got its start due to a misunderstanding in one of Chaucer’s classic stories. Whatever the origin, it’s as close to Christmas as us geeks get in the springtime. This year we did something special for our staff. I wanted to hang one of these up in front of our copiers and [...]
Continue reading...Added Security in Gmail
Thursday, March 25, 2010
In its efforts to increase security Google has added a pretty neat new feature into Gmail. It seems that it isn’t available to us Google Apps customers yet, but I anticipate seeing it soon.
Continue reading...User Backups with Time Machine
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
In a perfect world all company documents would be stored on a centralized file server/intranet that is backed up, easily restored and safe. Does this sound like your environment? Yeah mine neither. People keep them, in our case, on their laptops, so we have to provide a way to backup this data. For the longest time, we [...]
Continue reading...Fan Boy Musings
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
As has been mentioned previously on this blog, we are big fans of the Apple platform. Ask 15 people across North Point why this is, and you will likely get 15 different answers. However, from an IT perspective there are two main reasons: It puts lots of creativity into the hands of our users. Sure, you [...]
Continue reading...The Google Apps Post
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
This post is a long time in the making, but a recent article from Google renewed my passion for the topic, so I thought I would share our journey into the clouds with you. Step back with me, way back to 2002, when I began my employment here at North Point. At that time all of [...]
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Friday, April 2, 2010
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