In last week’s article, we began the discussion about how you can run your location independent business more effectively, focusing on some of the tools and online resources you can use to ensure optimal performance. However, today we are going to focus on more of the nitty gritty, and some of the best practices you…
It seems that the growing trend among the young, the smart, and the technologically savvy nowadays is to escape the clutches of western society, and run their businesses location independently from somewhere they can, as Tim Ferriss put it, “Earn in dollars, spend in pesos, and compensate in rupees.” However, while many people may see…
We live in a world that is so complicated that to truly understand the inner workings of even one of our electronic devices would take years, and to understand the inner workings of networks, servers, and “the cloud” feels like it would take a lifetime. That is why we have tried to make things easy…
We live in a world where interestingly enough, the largest threat to your personal security is not a man with a mask entering your house at night, but is actually a man in front of his computer sipping on coffee in his pajamas, 5,000 miles away. Hacking and information theft are very large and prevalent…
In last week’s article we discussed a couple of ways that you can increase your online privacy and security. This is an extremely important topic in today’s world where cyber threats are lurking around every corner. And while we would like to believe that we live in an ideal world where that will never happen…
Internet has become such a central part of life in the 21st century, and especially in business, slow wifi can be a huge detriment to productivity and the ability to close deals in a timely manner. Nothing is worse than waiting forever for a page to load so you can properly research a new article…
The definition of a VPN, or virtual private network, according to webopedia is “is a network that is constructed by using public wires — usually the Internet — to connect to a private network, such as a company’s internal network.” While this definition may seem to be a little bit useless to those of you who are…
If your small business needs a data network, you may feel overwhelmed at the thought of choosing or managing one. Fear not! It’s not as a difficult as it seems. Most small to medium sized businesses run data networks in their offices. What are data networks? They are telecommunication networks that allow two or more…
Firewalls are important… I know, it sounds strange making such a statement without letting you know why they’re important. Well, consider this…back in 2004, it was considered such a hazard to be connected to the internet without some form of protection, that there was a possibility of your computer getting hacked within the first 20…
The concept of different types of internet is not typically something you’d find yourself discussing with someone. In fact, the majority of people don’t know different types even exist. That brings me to T1 internet, and how it differs from the basic cable internet everyone is so used to. Cable internet is one of the…