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Where has the time gone, November arrives and I’ve let too many weeks go by before checking in with you.  Glad to be here again saying hi!

sentryThis time the gadget of the month  is a new fire and waterproof external hard drive from Sentry, yes the safe makers. The SentrySafe Fire-Safe is only a 250gb drive, but offers peace of mind to the small/home office to compliment your offsite backup plan. We can sell these for $399.00, and the price includes an exclusive after the fire/flood support program where Sentry will attempt to retrieve data off the drive AND send you a new unit, free.

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We recently had a fun and interesting security project for a local retail establishment. They wanted to switch from modem based credit card authorizations to internet processing for a quicker customer checkout. At the same time it was requested that no other internet access be allowed on this computer. ADDITIONALLY there were other computers on the network with their own unique security requirements. Two of the computers were allowed full internet access, but it was requested they were not able to access anything on the company’s other internal networked computers. We were able to support and implement this rock solid security solution with a SonicWALL security appliance.

Need to keep your users off of youtube during office hours? we’ve got you covered:

– Checkout this free ebook: “10 Cool things your firewall SHOULD do” available on SonicWalls site, and call us, your SonicWALL Medallion partner, with any questions.

has some recent price reductions, check out this very capable network workstation.

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Acer Aspire X1200 Desktop
AMD Athlon X2 5200+ 2.7GHz – 3GB DDR2 SDRAM – 640GB – DVD-Writer (DVD-RAM/±R/±RW) – Gigabit Ethernet – Windows Vista Home Premium- 1 yr manufacturers warranty.

UPC Code: 884483253364
$539.00+ship.

ALSO:

The incredible MSI Wind netbook is whats running our low (solar) powered web server now. I wanted to let you know I can let these go at a steal for $350+ship for a very limited time (lets say, oh… 1 week). Intel atom processor, wireless, 120gb drive, decent size keyboard , SUPER low power usage and windows xp home edition loaded up.

The green gadget of the month is not so gadgety, but oh so green ;) Hey everyone, if youre interested in tightening up your home to save on home heating costs (our furnace just died, hooray!), checkout the window inserts they sell at Florence Hardware. These nicely  made units are like inside storm windows, and are custom made to your dimensions. I did the insertswhole house with them and have noticed a major difference, the extra air barrier is what does it, as well as reduced drafts and its made a big difference in the comfort of our home. They are not cheap, but compared to the plastic stick on some people put up over windows in the winter, these will pay for themselves over a few short years. Here’s a larger pic of the same window, its the small white trim thats visible around the window, call Florence Hardware (584-8867) with questions or stop by North Maple Street.

Thanks Marc E. for recommending Florence I.T. to another area business this month!

kathAlso, don’t forget Florence I.T. is now partnered with Katharion, offering you a  service based, affordable way to deal with spam and viruses in email. Implementing it is quick for your entire organization with no need to work on individual pc’s. We can and have implemented this solution for hundreds of email users on the same domain, in the same quick and easy way we’d do it for your small 5, 10 or 25 user office. It works by filtering your whole domain (ie: @florenceit.net) and also provides backup to your mail server if it were to go down briefly (it happens to everyone). Pricing is low at only a few dollars per user per month. Call for more info.

And I leave you this month with a thought. I just read how you can now order pizza from your tivo if you have one. Has anyone seen Wall-E?  Eeeeeve! see ya!

Thans for your support and talk soon!

Hasta Luego !

- Matt

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