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Why you want to lock down your WiFi

In the news a man received an 18 year sentence for hacking into and using his neighbors WiFi for illegal purposes.

You can read the full article here:
18 years for WiFi Hacking

The latest tech news from Yahoo!

Yahoo Tech News

Google+ and you!

The reviews are starting come in about Google+ and how it will affect the social-networking empire. If you have not got your invite yet do not fret. I am sure someone out there who knows you and has it will send you one eventually so be patient.

In the mean time why not take a look at a couple of reviews:

CBS News

Huffington Post

Washington Post Blog

Give your own review on here.

Defragmenting and disk space

Most of us think of disk space as memory. This is not true. Disk space is storage area and memory is RAM. The more RAM you have the faster information can travel between your hard drive and the cpu. The more disk space you have the more information you can store (ie music video games pictures.) One thing we must remember is that the more information we put on our hard drives the more space we use up and the more fragmented the data becomes.

One simple thing to remember is keep at least 25% of your space on your hard drive open so that an effective defragmenting can take place when you need it. Also remember to defragment the drive after installing new software or deleting old software. This will keep your drive healthy and make the system run faster.

Windows defragmenter can be found under:
All Programs > Accessories >System Tools

Lets add one more item to the to-do list before defragmenting your drive. Open your My computer icon and right click your main hard drive marked with the C: and choose properties from the pop up menu and then click on the Disk Cleanup button. When the dialogue box comes up as to what to clean up make certain that the check boxes next to Office installation files, Compress old files and Catalog for indexing is “UNCHECKED” we do not want to clean those up at all. Then hit the okay button and say okay to the verify box. When this operation completes continue to the defragmenting portion listed above.

Self care of you computer can save you lots of money in the long run from taking it to a PC tech for service.

In progress

Just a quick update to let everyone know that we are working to get the new email server we have been talking about for sometime now up and running. So far we have had a few snags in the process that have kept us from putting the server into production.

With the changes to our home page and some of a few other items we have been working on the process is starting to smooth itself out.

Check back often to the home page to see if there is any new developments on this issue.

In the mean time the old server is still up and running.

For the “Newbie”

If you have a question regarding computers and internet services and would like a straight forward answer then ask it here. We will give you what information we have available or we will link you to where you can find a more comprehensive result.

Let us help you!

Hello world!

Welcome to the new Waypoint Communications Website. We have tried to make navigating the site simpler. Better navigation menus with all the things we think you will need to get around Waypoint’s site. This blog will be up and running in a few short months as well as the site. If you have stumble across us be sure to check our main site at www.waypoint.com until this new one is up and running completely.

Thanks

Waypoint