Steve Blount Web Designs and Development

03/05/2023

Smokers have been emptied out and a lot of folks have full bellies! Thats a wrap on one of our most challenging weeks so far! Thank you to all who came out to support our little BBQ joint in Newark!

Make plans to come out and celebrate with us for our 1 year anniversary this Saturday March 11th. We are having an official ribbon cutting at 10:30 then its on! We will have a ton of our BBQ plus some special items that you will not want to miss!!

06/15/2015

Is nothing sacred? LastPass, the service charged with keeping track of all our disparate online security measures with just one master password, was hacked last Friday—as detailed by the company’s own blog post published today. That is not good news.

07/11/2014

Have you had a client from hell? Then you might recognise some of these quotes.

05/21/2014

If you have an eBay account you need to change your password immediately!

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/21/technology/security/ebay-passwords/index.html

Hackers now have eBay users' names, passwords, emails, physical addresses and more.

04/09/2014

If you are not using Last Pass as a password manager you should really think about adding the extension to your browser. Last Pass not only securely manages all your passwords but now will check to see if you are affected by the Heartbleed OpenSSL exploit.

http://lifehacker.com/lastpass-now-tells-you-which-heartbleed-affected-passwo-1561522244?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

This week, a giant security hole came to light that affects a large portion of the internet. As different sites recover, you'll need to change your passwords, and now LastPass tells you when to do so.

04/07/2014

For all of you guys that are still running Windows XP... Here's what you can do to continue.

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-xp-what-to-expect-once-microsoft-shuts-down-support-7000025348/

Even though the world won't end because of Microsoft's withdrawal of support for Windows XP, those left clinging to the OS after April's deadline still face a number of issues.

04/03/2014

If you haven't backed up your computer, what are you waiting for? Don't wait until it's too late!!!!

03/09/2014

Starting a new series of articles on the Prodigal Services blog focusing on social marketing and productivity. We are going to start it with my nemesis: Meetings!

http://prodigalservices.com/home/news/productivity-tips-effective-meeting

I am not a fan of meetings. I absolutely dread them. I have always been vocal about the fact that meetings are a waste of time. A subject gets talked to to deah but nothing comes from it. Pure waste of mine and everyone else's time. I could always think of a way to be using my time more product...

06/11/2013

Web hosting customers: We will be doing server maintenance on Thursday, June 13 between 12:00 am and 6:00 am. During that time the server may be rebooted in order to install a new kernel.

04/12/2013

New Windows Tip: Closing an App in Windows 8

http://www.prodigalservices.com/home/news/closing-apps-windows-8

Microsoft wants to change the users Windows experience by having any open apps remain open until shutdown. Therefore, they have removed the file menu, close, minimize, and resize options in apps designed for Windows 8 and replaced them with the Windows 8 App commands. The App commands bar appears on...

04/04/2013

Drupal 7.22 was released today. All Prodigal websites needing the security update have been done.