Entries by Kari Redfield

Organize clients and projects — in the cloud

Cloud services are getting more and more attention these days — and for good reason. We all use them already — Google Mail and Calendar are the most likely culprits — but there is more to the cloud than Google. We tech geeks will call these apps Software as a Service, or Saas. All that means […]

September 5, 2016 by

5 online assets to organize today

There’s no time like today to take inventory, and for small business owners and independent contractors, inventory is no longer counting pens and pencils. In fact, so many of the things we need to count are ethereal and virtual, which make them even harder to begin counting. These 21st century “assets” include everything from your registered […]

August 5, 2016 by

Using OneDrive for file sharing and backups

I get a lot of questions about using the cloud – most people want to use a cloud service to back up their personal files in the case of machine failure. It’s a convenient, affordable, great idea! Folks with multiple computers, say a work and home computer, can also use this same cloud to share […]

June 5, 2016 by

I beg of you, back up your S#$!

I’ve been consoling a good friend on the loss of the only hard drive that housed their family’s photos. A failed hard is nearly impossible to recover and if that’s all you got it can be a sad day when it fails. But here’s the thing, we know it’s gonna fail. We know its a […]

March 5, 2016 by

Fix your own computer — as easy as ON and OFF

Recently, I consulted with a client who informed me her desktop was “acting up.” I asked when the last time she restarted the machine, and she told me the machine was running since her late husband left it that way. When asked when that was, she responded, “Oh … at least 5 years.”! I’m always […]

February 5, 2016 by

Big-city security in a small town

Whether you live in Bend or a big city, your PC and your website are living in the world wide web. This blog is a reminder that even though we may live in a secure and easy-going town where we leave our car unlocked as we run into the post office, all of our computers don’t. Millions of […]

January 5, 2016 by