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I.T. Security

I was on twitter and saw a link to an article that discusses why the bad guys seem to be winning the IT or cyber security battle.

This article is well written and offers readers many items to ponder and provides links to a lot of great tools.

A couple of highlights from the article:

Internet User Guide: [...]

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O​pen source applications across all platforms.

This series of articles will focus on free, and when possible open-source tools but not necessarily open source operating systems. The goal of this series of articles is to pull together applications that can be used on GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, and of course Microsoft Windows, so you can open, make changes, and save your data [...]

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New Technology for 2011

Kind of New Items for 2011:

Items or services that MLD Services has been using in 2010 that we think would be a big benefit to our customers in 2011.

Google’s Android on smartphones. Outstanding system with outstanding tools and is available through all wireless carriers and from multiple hardware manufacturers.
Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft has really stepped [...]

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Evaluating online Office Productivity Suites

For a while MLD Services has been looking at online office applications to move away from desktop applications, and has been looking for a way to see which word processor might be up to the task. We have narrowed our choices down to three; Google Docs, Microsoft’s Live web apps featuring [...]

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Continuing our beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS using Google Reader

In the last part of our RSS series, we will look at Google Reader.

Google Reader is a web based application rich in features that can be used “out of the box” for those beginners that just want a point and click solution, or customized and tweaked so that even power users will be [...]

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Google Wave

I have a few Google Wave invites left if anyone wants one? Send an email to the address in the logo above with the email address you want it sent or check us out on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/mldserviceslex

First come; first serve, and with only a few available, better act quick.

Matthew

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Google's Public DNS service.

Google recently created a new public DNS server; address = 8.8.8.8, and the service is extremely fast, but privacy concerns are an issue.

Read the privacy policy of these two DNS providers and make up your mind.

Google:

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html

OpenDNS:

http://www.opendns.com/privacy/

Matthew Davidson
Lexington, KY

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Google Voice

Google Voice:

I recently received an invite to Google Voice (GV) but I am unable to find a local number! But I was offered a lot of numbers from surrounding communities.

What to do?

Well for the last month I have been waiting for numbers in Lexington KY to become available, but I would like to start using [...]

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