Hi Everyone

I  suggest that you change your LINKEDIN password immediately.

Here are some reports to date:

http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-hacked-2012-6

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1206692–linkedin-users-read-this-then-change-your-password

I wanted to get this out quickly so am posting this quick blog post. I will provide updates as needed. Please inform your clients and co-workers about this breach.

Thank you.

I have been nominated for the 2012 SMB150 awards. This award honors the top 150 Small and Medium Business technology experts, vendors, and partners. My nomination in the expert category reflects my growing reputation as an event speaker, trainer, and consultant to IT Managed Service providers nationwide.

Please vote once a day for Me!
http://www.smb150.com/search.php?search=matthew+adkins

I am now booking for speaking engagaments in 2012. To give back to our local area I will speak at your Chamber, association, or company event for free if you are in Northwest Ohio or Southwest Michigan. For more details call us at 419-269-9918.

Serving the Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan market for 10+ years, Matthew Adkins is the President of VanGuard Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist. As an industry leader Adkins has appeared on numerous SMB IT service delivery and disaster recovery expert panels, spoken at various local and national events, been voted into the prestigious MSPMentor 250, and is a member of the Level Platforms Partner Advisory Council.

Recently my Droid began bugging me because I was low on memory. Even with deleting all the apps I could spare, moving apps to the SD card, and almost elminating text messages I still ran out of memory and was unable to receive new text messages or update applications. The cause? My e-mail application TouchDown.

TouchDown is a great e-maill app for those of us connecting to e-mail servers such as Microsoft Exchange who want a lot of control of our e-mail, the ability to download folders, and not having incoming e-mail wake us up at 3 AM. TouchDown can also use a lot of space – 45 MB in my case.

Fortunately, there is a solution. You can change the location where TouchDown stores the database to the SD card. They caution against it as there is a possibility of issues when accessing Exchange while the SD card is mounted on the PC. Since my Droid’s SD card is rarely mounted this shouldn’t be an issue.

How do you move your TouchDown database to SD card? “From the main Touchdown screen, press the Menu icon and choose More | Profiles and you will see the first screen above. Long-press the Default Account name, and you will see the second screen. You would choose Move to SD Card. It will give you a warning and then it only takes a couple of minutes and you are good to go. You can move it back at any time….” – The complete article with a screen shot can be viewed at: http://www.simplemobilereview.com/nitrodesk-touchdown-save-your-data-to-the-sd-card/.

If you have questions about this or any other article please give us a call at 419-269-9918 and we will be happy to speak with you!

Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dead at 56

Jason Mack of the Toledo Free Press wrote a wonderful tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in today’s web edition of the Toledo Free Press. In this article he weaves in reflections and comments from President Obama, competitors, and friends as well as from Toledo area tech personalites.

While I normally am happy to assist the Free Press, this is one quote I had wished I never would be asked for:

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2011/10/06/jobs-remembered-for-innovation-entrepreneurship/

Hanging on my wall in my office are my MCT certificate, my MCSE certificate, Bob Parson’s 16 rules of Success, and this:

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you you do.”
- Steve Jobs

I love what I do because of what Steve Jobs created.

I’ll be speaking at another cloud event on Friday, May 6th. This time I’ll be in Chicago. I’ve been invited by Intronis, a leader in on-site data backup software for manged service providers. I’ll be speaking on VanGuard’s proven success using best practices to deliver big company business continuity and disaster recovery services to small businesses. They knew I couldn’t pass up a good steak.

If you haven’t checked out all the ways that we can protect your critical files, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SQL databases then you should give us a call. And if you’re going to be in the Chicago area on Friday and want a free lunch at Mike Ditka’s Restaurant, then give me a call and I’ll send you an invite.