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"The traditional guidance is actually producing passwords that are easy for bad guys and hard for legitimate users"

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How would you occupy your time if you didn't have to keep your eyes on the road?

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Is Your Campus Network Ready For The First Day Of School?

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Job seekers and hiring managers, let Eaton Human Capital Solutions make the connections that will allow you and your business to succeed.

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TeamViewer is easily the best free remote access software I've ever used. There are tons of features, which is always great, but it's also extremely easy to install. No changes to router or firewall configurations are needed.

With support for video, voice calls, and text chat, TeamViewer also allows file transfers, supports wake-on-LAN (WOL), and can even remotely reboot a PC into Safe Mode and then reconnect automatically.

Host Side

The computer you want to connect to with TeamViewer can be a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.

A full, installable version of TeamViewer is one option here and is probably the safe bet if you're not sure what to do. A portable version, called TeamViewer QuickSupport, is a great choice if the computer you want to remote control will only need to be accessed once or if installing software on it isn't possible. The third option, TeamViewer Host, is the best choice if you'll be regularly connecting to this computer.

Client Side

TeamViewer has a number of options for connecting to the computer you want to control.

Installable and portable programs are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as well as mobile apps for iOS, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone. Yes – that means you can use your phone or tablet to connect to your remotely controlled computers while on the go.

TeamViewer also lets you also use a web browser to remotely access a computer.

A number of other features are also included, like the ability to share a single application window with someone else (instead of the whole desktop) and the option to print remote files to a local printer.

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I suggest trying TeamViewer before any of the other programs in this list.

The full list of supported desktop operating systems for TeamViewer includes Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Windows Server 2012/2008/2003, Windows Home Server, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. More »

Read About 15 Other Remote Access Software Tools Here

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It’s not your imagination, your iPhone has become slower. Here’s how to speed it up.

Some people aren't into material things, but for those of us that are there are few things more satisfying in life than that "new product" ritual, particularly when it comes to phones. Opening the box, immediately tossing aside anything that isn't the device itself, peeling off the plastic film, and pressing the power button. Breathe in the new smell.

Nowhere is this more true than with a new iPhone, and when  you first get hold of a new one there's also the giddy thrill of how quickly it boots, how smooth it is to quickly swipe around the interface, and how fast applications boot up and operate "Jeez this iPhone is blazingly fast," you might dare to think, "so much faster than my old one."

But then something starts to happen. About a month later you think, just maybe, your new iPhone isn’t as fast as it was on the day you opened it. A few months later the increasing slowness becomes more noticeable. And by the time you’re getting ready to buy the next iPhone a year or two down the line you just can’t wait to get rid of this slow piece of garbage.

I’ve heard people say that people who claim their iPhone has become slower over time are just imagining things. It’s all in their heads, they say. But it’s not. iPhones do actually slow down as time goes on. Why—and four ways to speed your iPhone back up—are outlined below.

Clear your RAM

RAM stands for random access memory and it's a thing software on your phone relies on so it can open quickly and perform tasks. When an app is running a certain amount of RAM is allocated to it. While this RAM is allocated to it, other apps can’t use it. If you are using a lot of apps at the same time (meaning several are running in the background) it’s possible almost all your RAM can be used up, slowing down your iPhone, until you quit those apps.

The problem is sometimes apps, even when quit, don’t give up the RAM they were using. This means your iPhone can actually run slower even though you aren’t actively using apps. One way to reset the RAM—that is, force free it from the apps that are using it—is to restart your iPhone. Granted, that can take a while. Thankfully there’s a faster way:

Press and hold your iPhone’s power button until the “Slide to power off” bar appears. DO NOT POWER OFF YOUR iPhone. Instead….

Release the power button and now press and hold the home button for five seconds until your home screen comes back on. You RAM will now have been refreshed and your iPhone should be much faster.

Clear the cache from the iPhone’s built-in apps

Another thing that can slow down your iPhone are cache files. These are files that store data so an app can quickly access that data next time without have to go looking for it or creating it again. In theory this will lead to speedier apps. However, large caches, over time, can actually slow down your iPhone.

Not all apps allow you to clear the cache, but Apple has built a secret feature into its pre-installed apps that let you clear their cache. Here’s how:

Open a preinstalled app. These include apps like App Store, iTunes Store, Music, Podcasts, Game Center, iMessage and Phone.

In the tab bar (the bar where the app’s buttons are) in any of these apps, tap the same button (it doesn’t matter which) quickly 10 times in a row. The app will now flash white and its cache will be cleared.

Clear your iMessages

Believe it or not, but having a ton of iMessages can massively slow down your phone—in addition to taking up space. At one point I had 8GB of iMessages on my iPhone. You can check how many you have by going to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage. If your iMessages are taking up more than 1GB it might be time to delete them.

To ensure iMessages never become a storage or speed hog in the future, it’s best to set iMessages to auto delete after a set amount of time. To do this:

Go to Settings > Messages > Keep Messages.

On the Keep Messages screen choose 30 Days or 1 Year (if you want to keep them for a bit longer). Choosing either one of these options will delete all your older messages past that timeframe—and in the process speed up your iPhone.

Disable animations

Apple introduced some cool motion and animation effects called Parallax back in iOS 7. While they look cool, making your iPhone carry these out each time you open an app drains both the battery and requires your RAM and processors to work harder, slowing down your phone. If you don’t need the eye candy it’s best to disable the animations. To do this:

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility and toggle the “Reduce Motion” option to ON (green). Now animations will be less pronounced (or gone altogether).

NUCLEAR OPTION – Get A New iPhone

If all else fails perhaps it’s time to concede defeat and get a new iPhone?

I know, I know – new iPhones cost a BOMB.

But there are other ways to get a new phone (no, I’m not talking about stealing one) that will save you a bunch of cash.

I don't like contracts or “carrier agreements”. I don’t like being tied to one network either; I’d rather shop around and choose the best deals for my data and minutes as they happen.

But this means I need to buy my phones outright – and that can be expensive.

But then I discovered that you can buy reconditioned iPhones, basically used iPhones that have been rejigged by Apple, for A LOT less than a new one.

I was dubious at first, figured they’d be rubbish. But I was wrong: these handsets run like new, look like new, and perform like new phones. I am now on my second reconditioned iPhone.

I wrote an entire article on buying reconditioned iPhones that covers where to buy them and what to look for when purchasing. Basically, if you want an iPhone and don’t want to spend iPhone money and also avoid being tied to a network this is the best way to do it.

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Bay Area IT companies and IT support providers across the U.S. are on notice: As of May 25, 2018, the EU will implement a high profile regulation to protect the data of consumers. Numerous U.S. companies will be affected by this, whether they operate in the EU, or even if they simply possess personally identifiable information on citizens of the EU. The regulation’s main purpose is to protect the data of EU citizens, whether that data is located in the EU or outside of it. The following overview highlights the main considerations associated with this regulation, which is called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) may be old news, but Dell EMC's first true end-to-end solution makes it a potentially great choice for many organizations.

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“The Shared Fiber Network has the same potential impact as the historic rail systems, telegraphs and interstates did on our communities by facilitating modern communication, commerce and travel. It is a privilege to partner with San Mateo County on such a far-reaching initiative.” 

– John Eaton, President of Eaton & Associates 

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Sending mobile friendly calendar invites is relatively simple and can really improve the experience of joining a call as well as attendance for your meetings.

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Dell EMC VDI Complete bundles the full hardware and software stack into a simple to purchase, deploy, manage, and scale solution supported directly by a single enterprise OEM vendor. As much as that may seem like an obvious offer structure, Dell EMC is the first to provide such a distinct end-to-end solution. On top of that, it is now offering a monthly cost per user consumption model as an alternative option to the existing upfront prepay model. I’ll cover the key points and implications. We wrote a more in-depth product analysis in a paper here.

VDI Adoption Barriers and Implementation Challenges

To understand why these offer improvements could be so impactful, it’s worth reviewing what has held VDI adoption back for so long. VDI moved through the textbook technology hype cycle peaking in the 2009-2010 timeframe with more enterprise IT adoption than the technology was mature enough to support. Among the biggest challenges, it was tough to plan cost and capacity, challenging to deploy, suffered from performance bottlenecks impacting users, and was tough to administrate with support spread across a variety of vendors. The entire effort was a customer challenge in gluing together technology from the spectrum of infrastructure and software vendors for a workload with an unfamiliar performance profile. There were sharp swings in resource utilization during the workday that needed to be handled without any portion of the stack becoming a performance bottleneck or administrative pain point.

Given the technical complexity in implementation and the risk of impact to user productivity that could drive additional resource purchase requirements and/or force scaling back the addressable user base, the resulting business problem was that it was hard to reliably project the return on investment and achieve it once implemented. This stunted adoption for a decade of an otherwise clear opportunity to improve IT resource control to operate more securely and cut a lot of wasted cost.

Single Vendor Simplicity

The first key to addressing each of the challenges has been a reliable, consolidated VDI stack offering. Dell EMC’s VDI Complete bundles compute, storage, networking and software that is pre-validated and packaged for ease of deployment planning and management up through the VDI application stack using normal VMware management tools. There have been OEM VDI bundles around for years that intended to absolve IT from having to solve the riddle themselves of purchasing and configuring an optimal stack of components, but even for those that were tested across vendors to a profiled performance level with no customization allowed, no one enterprise OEM vendor could stand behind what was deployed.

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Big data is a monumental influence on financial trading. Modern business analytics have shown its influence in many key areas of the market. Our recent blog post explores these factors and more:

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Did you know Siri could do all this?

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Eaton & Associates is launching a series of drone demonstrations in addition to offering a complete drone security solution to protect our clients physical and virtual property.

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Nutanix believes that companies will continue to run a hybrid environment with some resources in the public cloud and some on-prem, and if that is correct (and it likely is for the foreseeable future), they want to provide a way to do that as efficiently as possible.

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Will tech companies be able to stop the roll back of net neutrality rules?