Wright PC Consulting, LLC » Portable Computing

Verizon’s OS 5.0.0.591 update for Tour a BUST!

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:11:09 +0000

Tour owners on the Verizon network have waited on the sidelines while their fellow Tour owners on Sprint and other networks enjoyed the new features of the latest Blackberry Operating System, 5.0. This last week those owners finally got the joy. However, that joy very quickly turned to sadness and anger as their beloved Tour [...]

Google Maps Navigation

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:48:42 +0000

Having the power of Google and “the cloud” on your dash or the palm of your hand when traveling to provide turn-by-turn guidance is coming to an Android smartphone near you! Recently Google announced the reality of such convenience on their blog. So, you too really can “get their from here.”

3G Speed Tests: How Fast is Your Carrier?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:06 +0000

According to Wired.com‘s recent speed test challenge, the carrier with “the most bars” is not the carrier with the most speed. In fact, results pegged AT&T Wireless‘ 3G network speed as the slowest while Verizon Wireless‘ testers found them to have the fastest 3g data transfers. See the test method here and the results here.

WordPress for BlackBerry

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:34:27 +0000

Automattic released a beta version of it's mobile app for BlackBerry mobile phones.

Google Apps and cPanel 11/WHM 11

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0000

After several weeks of trial and error, Wright PC Consulting has finally made a transition to Google Apps for mail and other services. This transition has no direct affect on current or future clients. As a Google Market Place vendor, we have helped others smoothly migrate to the Google Apps platform before. However, while the [...]

Congressional Twitters?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:34:27 +0000

Looks like President Obama isn’t the only one in DC embracing technology: Embedded video from &amp;lt;a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”&amp;gt;CNN Video&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

Dovecot, cPanel & mailbox_idle_check_interval

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:29:10 +0000

Changing Dovecot's default mailbox_idle_check_interval setting allows flowing mail to mobile phones on cPanel servers.

Open Source on your Keychain

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:10:59 +0000

Ever wish you could have access to your favorite Open Source applications and personal documents, spreadsheets and music on any available computer? With a flash drive with ample room and portable versions of your favorite Open Source applications from PortableApps.com you can do just that. From OpenOffice to Mozilla Firefox , PortableApps.com has a portable [...]

Data Encryption for Your Laptop Made Easy

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:17:15 +0000

With all the reports of data loss these days, many clients are asking how they can best secure their own data while traveling with their laptops. For those road worriers that want the ability to transparently access and secure their personal data while traveling, I usually recommend that they consider encrypting their data with the [...]

Backing Up Laptop is Important Too

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:18:13 +0000

Often when most think of protecting their data using either an on site or off-site solution, they typically just consider their desktop and if they have one, a home/business server. However, one of the most vulnerable data storage and processing devices we own, laptops are all too frequently overlooked. Just think about it… we lug [...]