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March 2008
Issue #15: Service Plans, Referral Partner Program, RSS
-Welcome - Lots of exciting changes underway!
-Service Plans: NetworkCare PRO, NetworkAssist, SpamAssist & OnCall
-BDPNetworks Referral Partner Program
-Fun & Cool: Google Reader
September 2007
Issue #14: Service Plans, Referral Partner Program, RSS
-Welcome - We've moved!
-A short history of BDPNetworks
-BDPNetworks Today
-How to choose a computer for your business
-Planned obsolescence
-Buying computers on a schedule
-Fun & Cool: Miro, StumbleUpon
September 2005
Issue #13: E-mail is not safe!; Keep your Windows PC free from viruses;
Spyware & other security problems; Interesting companies to watch
-Welcome
-Security Detail: E-mail is not safe!
-What Can We Do For You? Information on BDPNetworks
-Keep your Windows-based PC free from viruses, spyware & other
security threats--Check out Past Articles!
-News: Three Kings - Interesting Companies to Watch
-Fun & Cool on the Web: The Computing Revolustion exhibit, WebZen,
Troubleshooting your iPod, MAKE Magazine-Wolfgang Puck Self-heating
Can Hacking, Flip Flop Flyin' Minipops, "You've got to find what
you love"-Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address.
August
2005
Issue #12: Vigilance Prevents Future Sabotage: Security & Privacy
Cheatsheet for all Windows-based computers.
-Welcome
-Vigilance Prevents Future Sabotage: Protect Your Windows PC in Four Easy Steps
-What We Can Do: Information on BDPNetworks, LLC
-Phishing, RequestTracker and Planned Obsolecense: Check Out Past Articles!
-Fun & Cool: PODCASTING, Reference: Cool Tools, Fish Highway, The iPod Flea,
Game: Bubble Bobble
August
2004
Issue #11: Don't install Windows XP SP2, Spam management, how long to own computers,
RequestTracker, and More!
-Welcome
-Security News: Don't install Windows XP SP2, Internet Explorer is a big security
risk
-Preventing spam automatically with software tools
-Using our RequestTracker support ticketing system
-How long should you hold onto a computer?
-Fun & Cool: Seattle Central Library, Pre-fab rooftop housing, Candy wrapper
museum, Photos of the Snow & Ice Festival in China, Map of Springfield (Simpsons),
Dancing Cats, Chillout Song
April
2004
Issue #10: How To Buy Business Desktops, Phishing Scams, Spam, and More!
-Welcome Back
-How To Buy A Computer: Business Desktops
-Phishing: Email Scams Take People Hook, Line, and Sinker
-E-mail: Spam: Preventing Spam
-News
-Links
-Fun & Cool: Water flows uphill, Penguin Baseball, Mars Exploration Rover
Mission Home, ZipDecode, -Apple iTunes for Windows
July
2002
Issue #9: TCPA / Microsoft Palladium. TEOMA search engine. SequoiaView disk management.
Microsoft automatic Windows Update. New Apple products (OS X 10.2) announced.
And more!
-TCPA & Microsoft
Palladium: Why you should be aware of it.
-The
BDP Networks Wireless Access Count (WAC) - July, 2002
-New
Apple announcements: OS
X 10.2 (Jaguar): Rendezvous, Bluetooth, and more; 17" iMac,
new iPods, iTunes 3, QuickTime 6 (MPEG-4 video and AAC audio formats); Analysis
- will these technologies catch fire and spread to the rest of the
industry?
-Tips & Tricks:
New automatic Windows Update software - works on Windows 2000 and Windows
XP. Highly recommended.
-Fun & Cool: Save
Internet Radio - an update; Citrus
Altoids; Iron
Chef drinking game; Company
Anthems; Homestar
Runner
June
2002
Issue #8: Maintenance Plans, Windows refresh rates, Exchange security hole, Mozilla
1.0 release, HP roadmap, fun stuff
-Oops!
-More information about IE AutoSearch feature
-Maintenance Plans save time & money
-Tips & Tricks:
-Windows screen refresh rates
-Netware: make your directories sticky
-Technews
-Big hole found in MS Exchange - requires patch
-Microsoft changes default marketing preferences
-Mozilla 1.0 finally released
-Klez & ElKern virus updates
-HP Product Roadmap
-The dangers of Kazaa
-Fun & Cool: ChipWorks - Silicon Art; Absolut Director; Fire Extinguisher
Balls; Light Up the World; Sound Bug
May
2002
Issue #7: Security, Privacy, Spyware, Winmail.dat, Save Internet Radio, Netware
tip!
-Security and Privacy update: Things you
need to do to keep your system secure; Spyware: It's getting worse
-SAVE INTERNET RADIO!
-Nonstandard Microsoft e-mail attachments, or "What is winmail.dat?" (TNEF/RTF)
-Microsoft quietly changes how Internet Explorer functions...
-Tips & Tricks: Netware: Netware: Undelete your files with ease; Windows:
Filename completion on the command line Apple iBook: four months later
-Fun & Cool: Space Needle / Seattle Center 40th Anniversary; CIA Factbook;
Microdots!; Serious Lego; Cheese Racing; GE Color Quiz
March
2002
Issue #6: What is Bluetooth? What is MAPS / ORBZ?
-Yahoo resets marketing preferences to "Yes."
-What is Bluetooth? How is it different than WiFi?
-Network acronyms demystified
-Does MAPS really protect against SPAM?
-FUN!: Homestar Runner
-Muffin Films
-ArsTechnica: What is .NET?
-Traffic Cone Preservation Society
-Secret Lives of Numbers
January
2002
Issue #5: The best technologies that didn't get enough coverage this year...
-Security update: huge hole in Windows
XP (universal plug and play)
-Great underappreciated products of 2001:
-Netware 6
-Linux
-Apple Mac OS X, iPod, iBook, new iMac
-FUN!: TIME inventions of the Year
-Pot-in-Pot Cooler
-Best of CES
-Segway HT
-Megway TH
-Disturbing Auctions
-Microsoft -> English dictionary
-Luxury Cellphones
-Cool clock
-Google catalog
December
2001
Issue #4: Wireless Ethernet (WiFi - 802.11b), Spyware, XP performance problems
-802.11b/WiFi - What is it?
-Security issues related to WiFi
-Coming trends in wireless
-Major security hole found in Internet Explorer - needs attention
-Windows XP - selling well, but worth the trouble? (performance & compatibility
problems)
-Spyware & what to do about it: LavaSoft Ad-Aware
-Alternatives to Internet Explorer: Netscape 6.2 & Opera 6
-FUN!: AT&T Natural Voices
-emotioneric.com
-AntCity
-Make-a-Monster
October
2001
Issue #3: Windows XP is released, Microsoft security problems
-Windows XP release... should you get it?
-More new security tools from Microsoft
-Update on new MS licensing program
-New Internet Explorer IE 5.5 SP2 and 6.0 break Netscape-style plugins
-Recall: Compaq power supplies on Armada & ProSignia laptops can overheat/cause
fire
-HP & Compaq merger
-Mozilla & StarOffice - almost ready for prime time?
-FUN!: Best paper airplane in the world
-Institute of Official Cheer: Gallery of Regrettable Food & much more
-Halloween Online Halloween
-Punkin' Chunkin'
-Poke the Bunny
September
2001
Issue #2: Viruses & Worms on Windows; What to do about them: dump IIS?
-Nimda/Code Red
-Antivirus software: overview of available packages
-Top viruses in the wild- where to get updated lists
-Where to get free virus scans, and what to buy for protection
-Microsoft tool for helping to secure IIS (HFNETCHK)
-Microsoft Personal Security Advisor for any NT/2000 machine
-IIS: Gartner Group recommends moving away from IIS completely
-GroupWise security alert from Novell for GW5.5ep or above
-FUN!: WindowsRG (Really Good)
-Bad Candy
-Dilbert's Ultimate Cubicle
August
2001
Issue #1: Code Red, GroupWise Wireless
-Code Red
-Office XP review
-Windows XP first look
-Novell eDirectory for free?
-Seagate: Fastest/Quietest Hard drive
-Useful PDA sites
-GroupWise Wireless
-FUN!: Human clock
-Sorting poker chips with a vibrating table
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