Many of you know Steve Cherubio the creator of PodNutz and you may know him as the guy who puts out those amazing Laptop Repair Video's. But, now Steve has come out with the TechSiteBuilder package. This product is specifically built for computer repair technicians/businesses that need to get an Internet presence. This is basically a turn-key operation to use. It comes with everything you need and all you have to do is put your information for yourself or your business into it. I could go into more details but no need, Steve has put a site up and you can see all that comes with the TechSiteBuilder. [+]

Great article on 2009 Internet Stats here Few things jump out at you. Being in business one of the blocks of number is: Internet users * 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009). * 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year. * 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia. * 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe. * 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America. * 179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean. * 67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa. * 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East. * 20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia. So you don't have to be a genius to see that no matter where you live there is a massive amount of people using the internet.  That being the case it's safe to assume there should be plenty of work now and in the future.  The Malicious Code numbers are [+]

**Edited 27 jan 2010... Now "Comptia" has changed their mind, or better yet clarified their position here. Seems now if you do or have done the A+, Net+ or Security Plus on or before 31 Dec 2011 then you are still good for life.... Not surprising that Comptia is finally on board and has changed their policies on how long cerifications are good for. Not sure if I really like this or not. Obviously having all the certifications that they are now changing to a "renewal" policy I am looking at it from that aspect. I can almost buy off on the Network+ and Security needing to be renewed, but having a difficult time with the A+ needing it. My mindset has always been that there is a progression path to certifications and it was: A+ Net+ MCP CCNA Then you could do the big boys such as [+]

I was at a business clients yesterday. I started working on their network a few months ago and as of yet they have not signed on for a "maintenance contract" which typically I would of been upset with by now but if they do not seem to care I am not going to hound them about it. But, I will bill them for each and every minute I am on site or my technician(s) are on site. Well yesterday was setup so the "old" computer person they had would come in and try to recover some old data that apparently only he and the owner knew about. They had been running a program to monitor all e-mail traffic and then log it into sql databases. Well someone should of coordinated better due to the "old" server that had crashed was at another [+]