We hope everyone had a great holiday season as we move into the new year!  We have undergone some changes in the past month and wanted to share them with you. First off, Virtua Computers has a new office on 38th and 8th.  The location is centralized to our clients and has proven to be efficient.  Second off, Autriv Software Development saw the release of it's newest product, BlackBook, a contact management software that is server based.  The release party was held last week and was met with strong praise from Mac Consultants in the city. The new year also brings in...

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TGIF!  This means we are close to Monday which means the new iPhone is only a few days away from being announced. As we all know already, with the new phone comes new data plans and with new data plans comes mind games from AT&T.  Since pulling the plug on their unlimited data service customers are throwing their arms up in the air in rage because they aren't quite sure what to do next. If you don't know how much data you use then how are you supposed to know which new data plan to pick?  Do you know how big an...

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As an Apple Consultant, one of the most important parts of my job is to make sure data is safe and secure. After years of my own data loss, files deleted, and computer crashes I now take my own advice. When I setup clients computers, and servers I always discuss backup with them. There are so many different strategies and customizations involving backup, depending on the scale that's needed. This multi-part blog post will discuss personal backups, office computer backups, server backups and hopefully everything in between. Day 1. Personal backups. Read More

Look, we all know that backing up your data is important.  Yes we've all heard it so many times, and then when things go bad we swear that next time we'll backup.  We want you TO backup your data, and to be extra safe, back it up in more than one place. How? Simple!! If you have any Apple computer running OS X 10.5 or later you have the software already - TIME MACHINE.  Connect an external Hard Drive (either Firewire or USB) and tell Time machine to back up your data.  That's it!  That's all you have to do.  Every hour Time...

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