Small Business Technology Blog

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

April 30, 2009

Attn: Scott Kendall

RE: Testimonial for Mr. Kendall
I have known Mr. Kendall as a frequent guest visitor to his BNI Chapter. Several weeks ago, Scott and I met briefly to learn more about each other’s businesses. I was impressed with his wealth of knowledge and expertise.

However, I was MOST impressed with the free two minute advice he provided, and this free advice has saved me time and frustration, yet has allowed me to maintain a record of my emails that have been sent from my blackberry device. As a lawyer, one should keep records of all emails sent from the device, but with blackberry’s service, you need to send yourself an email too so that you have a record on your computer.

Now imagine this:
1. Sending yourself an email;
2. Then receiving it on your device;
3. Your device rings;
4. You have two copies on the device – one as sent, one as received;
5. However, no record exists in your Outlook, Thunderbird etc. unless you send it to yourself;
6. You need to delete your device emails constantly; and
7. Factor in the frustration and time for hundreds of emails each day.

Scott provided me with a simple, yet very efficient alternative solution.

What is the solution? Talk to Mr. Kendall!

Yours very truly,
Anurag Gupta

Friday, May 1, 2009

Free Antivirus: Panda Cloud Antivirus

Every windows computer should make use of a Antivirus system to protect themselves from frequent attacks from viruses.

However finding a Antivirus software to suit users needs is a bit difficult task, considering that many AV softwares are known to slow down a system resulting in lesser performance for other applications.

Panda Cloud Antivirus is a new innovation which uses cloud computing to scan and eliminate viruses from your PC, regularly monitoring and protecting your computer in real-time.

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Panda Cloud Antivirus is extremely fast and uses a very low memory footprint ~20MB, which is way much better than a traditional AV software.

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The Antivirus is still in the beta stage and available as a Freeware, however this may change in future and Panda may start charging users, however they will still leave it as a free product for personal use.

So if you are unhappy with your current AV and want to tryout something fast, go ahead and download Panda Cloud Antivirus and keep your PC safe and secure.

Download Panda Cloud Antivirus