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Google Green?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:15:47 +0000

Google is many things… an advertising company, an ISP, email provider, a cloud pioneer and even a mobile phone maker (almost), but one thing it is not is an energy waster. To prove that, they recently unveiled Google Green – The Big Picture, a website that highlights the many ways that Google uses its brain [...]

Google Releases Latest Transparency Report

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:21:35 +0000

Google has released its latest Transparency Report

Better DNS Servers (Part 2)

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:52:28 +0000

Some may remember my post in February of 2010, “Better DNS Servers for faster browsing” in which I briefly described what DNS is and how it may impact your surfing speed. While I still recommend OpenDNS (See my posts: OpenDNS: Better, Faster, Safer? and OpenDNS Protects Surfers from DNS Flaw) for many of my customers who are looking [...]

Search Poising latest Olympic Tragedy

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:01:53 +0000

The SANS Technology Institute is reporting that many unsuspecting Olympic searchers are finding malware rather than Olympic news through Google search results poisoning. According to SANS: “…the killed Georgian luge athlete is used to redirect unsuspecting users to fake anti virus and other malicious content. The redirect is browser dependent. Firefox is usually redirected to [...]

Better DNS Servers for faster browsing

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000

I regularly have customers tell me that “their internet is slow” despite having such and such speed tier with their ISP. While there can be many causes for slow page loads including, viruses, spyware, network congestion and ISP network issues to just name a few, often the culprit can be narrowed down to just three [...]

Google Secrets Exposed: A Data Center Tour

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:35:58 +0000

Take a peek inside a Google data center to see how the big boys do it (personal transport device included).

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;

Google: The Whole Internet Infected?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:12:12 +0000

Many faithful Googlers awoke Saturday morning to discover that any website they wanted to visit may corrupt their computer. That of course was not the case, but for about 40 minutes Saturday morning, all Google search results returned the attention grabbing warning: “This site may harm your computer.” According to their blog, the actual cause [...]

The Oval BlackBerry

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:28:30 +0000

President Obama will indeed keep his BlackBerry to the delight of many BlackBerry addictis who were no doubt feeling his anticipated withdraw pains.