Historical articles and practical information from Apex IT Solutions. Publication dates are preserved so older guidance is not mistaken for current advice.
The social network is rolling out a security for users to use the encryption standard OpenPGP to protect e-mail notifications sent by the company, and to share their public encryption keys with their friends or with the public. The feature is being rolled out to users starting June 1st 2015. PGP, short for “Pretty Good…
Google revealed Android M at its I/O developer conference last week, a powerful step forward for the world’s most popular mobile operating system. Google made a conscious effort to improve the platform’s performance and stability, but was sure to include a few great features. Many of the features are small enough that Google didn’t highlight…
Have you ever had problems with not being able to access a website, load information, or view documents through your browser? Any problem that hinders your ability to get work done can be a pain. In the second part of this two part article I am going to explain how to harden your security setting…
An unusual bug in Apple’s iOS can crash and reboot your iPhone if you receive a certain text message. The bug works as follows: Someone texts you a message with a specific string of Arabic characters. If your iPhone is locked, and you receive a notification of the new text, iMessage crashes and your iPhone…
Look around today they are everywhere: stooped shoulders, angled necks and wrists, hands twisted like claws. As people harness their bodies to use more electronic devices in more places, they may unknowingly be putting themselves at a greater risk of injury. Some might say things were easier 20 years ago when employees worked mainly on…
Today is Memorial Day 2015. In cemeteries across the U.S flags flutter, flowers are placed on the graves of the dead, and bugles sound the notes of Taps. The crowds paying tribute, however, have grown sparse. Memorial Day began as a way to honor Civil War dead, the commemoration was long called Decoration Day from…
Google announced on April 22nd of this year a new program called Fi. Fi combines the wireless networks of Google carrier partners Sprint and T-Mobile with more than 1 million free, open Wi-Fi hotspots Google has verified as fast and reliable. Rumors that Google intended to enter the mobile virtual network operator field have been…
Over the past five years cloud computing has been rapidly picking up steam. Cloud computing is kind of a big deal (like, change the face of IT big), in this article I am going to provide a brief cloud computing introduction. Here are some key points you need to know about cloud computing to help…
What do most successful businesses have in common? Using available resources to effectively execute business strategies, maintaining a strong focus on the customer and structuring the organization in order to support company objectives are the three basic building blocks that high-performing organizations, regardless of industry or geography, have in common. That finding comes from new…
In 1824, the Duke of Wellington received a letter from a publisher threatening to publish a memoir by his former mistress. The publisher offered to keep the Duke out of the book if he received a sum of money. The Duke reportedly sent the letter back with “Publish and be damned” scrawled on the back….
