Email, the perfect tool for hackers
As web-masters for a growing number of companies in town, we are often asked about the validity (or dangers) of emails certain received. Especially the info@ and webmaster@ addresses are under attack from viruses and phishing, often twice or trice a week, so asking is is the right thing to do! What happens?
A legitimate looking email arrives from one of your contacts, a potential client, paypal, facebook, twitter or even from your own email server (see below). Something is wrong with your account and they need you to login and verify your password. Click here. Or one of a thousand other reasons why you would want to follow the link they provide. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Webmaster in Security & Anti-Virus, Updates on November 17, 2009
Ultimate Boot CD
A well deserved first in our new ‘Technicians toolkit’ category is called the ‘Ultimate Boot CD’. A freely available image you can put on an empty CD or any available USB-stick (256Mb+), giving you a bootable solution to diagnose, test and fix any processor, motherboard, memory, hard-disk and so on.
Simply put, the authors took hundreds of freely available solutions and put them together with a simple bootable menu. Download the ISO, burn it onto a CD/R and take it with you wherever you go. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Webmaster in Technicians Toolkit on July 13, 2009
Technicians Toolkit
Here at Mica, we’re all technicians first, and sales-people, consultants etc. second. Working in IT throughout the years, we’ve collected quite a library of tools and utilities. Thanks to the blessings of the Open Source community, the large majority of these are available free of charge!
For this reason, we’ve opened up a new category on our site, ‘Technicians Toolkit’, under which you’ll find articles, tips and tricks helping us (and you), Arusha ICT technicians, with our daily work. All solutions and tools listed are free to use, copy and share amongst your friends. And because we know from painful experience how long it can take to download a CD image using our flaky Tanzanian internet, all of the tools mentioned are available for free from our shop! Just drop by with a memory stick or empty CD and we’ll fill them up for you, free of charge… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Webmaster in Technicians Toolkit on July 13, 2009
Using DVR to secure your shop or premises
You arrive at your office early in the morning, only to find out your premises were burgled over night. Or maybe you go to the back of your store to assist a client, only to find out some unknown person helps him or herself to your products in front. There are many different reasons to look into using camera surveillance to protect the inside and outside of your office but up until now these specialised technologies have been unaffordable for most.
Fortunately, as with many technologies, full time camera surveillance is now something available to anyone, anywhere, using no more then standard PC equipment and easilly available camera hardware. Instead of using an expensive ‘time-lapse’ videorecorder, we can now digitally record any video source, from a web-cam to an wireless outside camera, straight onto a standard hard-disk using a technology called ‘DVR’, or ‘Digital Video Recording’. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Webmaster in Security & Anti-Virus on July 13, 2009
Mobile Access
Every day, we see a larger percentage of our site-visitors using a mobile phone as opposed to a full-blown web-browser. Just like in Tanzania mobiles phones overtook the hardly used land-line system as the preferred method of communications, now modern phones come equipped with web-browsers, making the trip to an internet cafe a thing of the past.
However, your website that looks so nice on a big screen, will be almost impossible to access from the small screen of most mobile phones. Pictures, fancy menu’s, the entire site was designed to be viewed at much higher resolution. Read the rest of this entry »
Mica's new shop
With the new location came the opportunity to open our own computer shop in town. More then just a nice place to visit us and discuss your queries and wishes concerning everything to do with computers (welcome to a nice cup of coffee or tea), this now allows us to provide you with equipment and applications that we have selected ourselves.
Each item in our shop has passed the Mica criteria of giving excellent value for money whilst still offering you with high-class quality on which you can build your business. From computers, displays, printers, scanners and networking equipment to a wide variety of spare-parts to replace (or expand) parts of your current equipment, all at very affordable prices…
Posted by Webmaster in New in our shop on June 23, 2009
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