Microsoft Surface & Pro 2 Guides FREE

Have you recently acquired or plan to get a new Surface tablet soon? If so, then you will definitely want to grab a copy of the free guides for ‘Surface Pro 2′ and ‘Surface 2′ from Microsoft’s website!

 These guides cover a nice range of areas such as: set up, basics about the operating system, getting started on making your new Surface ‘yours’ with favorite apps, details about the hardware of your new tablet, connecting other devices, networking, and much more!

 You can choose the appropriate guide for your Surface tablet by visiting the link below.

  http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/userguides

Photo Geotagging Security Risk

Do you take photos with your smartphone and post them online?
Innocent photos of your children or snapshots of family get-togethers that you want to remember are common on social media sites.

However, these photos pose a serious and dangerous privacy risk.
Thieves and criminals can find the exact location where your photos were taken, via the GPS on your smartphone – whether that’s your child’s bedroom or your favorite restaurant.
This security concern has been around for quite a while – but privacy breaches will continue, as long as geo-tracking is enabled by default on your family’s photos.

The software behind the photos includes geo-tags, according to Deep Medhi, a computer science professor at UMKC.
These are geographical tags that store where and when the photo was taken, similar to the type of technology used in GPS devices.
Your smartphone automatically stores the location where the photos were taken, whether it is at a local park, your child’s day care center, or even your own home.
Anyone can easily translate these geo-tags through browser add-ons that are completely free to download. The add-ons or apps turn the geo-tags into mapped locations to make it easier for human eyes to determine the location.

Technology is continually developing, and privacy is an ongoing problem – particularly for social media sites like Facebook. If you’re not careful, you could be giving criminals all the information they need to harm you
and your family. For now, make sure your GPS settings are set to the level of control that you want them, and be careful when posting pictures online. It takes just a free browser add-on to get more information than just the image shows.

How Do you Protect Yourself?
You can disable your geo-tags on your phones settings and any other social website using their control settings. If you need help trying to figuring it out, let us know and we can help you. I would easily post a "how to" but every device is different and every software is always updating and changing. Its just easier for us to help you right then and there.

Here is a Guide from the Niles Police Department. 

If you still need help disabling the geo tagging or you are not sure, give us a contact or a call :) We would be happy to help you. Better safe than sorry.

Please Don't Share Your Private Information Online

As many times as we tell you not to share personal information or too much information on the Internet, some just are not getting it threw their heads.Identity theft can be as simple a simple Email, a stolen Sim card chip, or a software tracker, and "YES" especially Facebook.  

With all this said, a Bank in Belgian has teamed up with an Award -winning AD agency to create an amazing AD to clearly show you how little you really know about what information you put online and how a thief can use that information and ruin you life (literally).


Its already hard enough to track down the theft who is using your credit cards to withdraw money from ATM or using your social security, please don't fall into a victim or wait so it can happened to you. We all work hard and sacrifice so much time and money to have the

ATT & Verizon Privacy Collection Pro-out

AT&T is now collecting anonymous information about your account for external marketing and analytics. By default you're opting into the tracking, but it's easy to opt out.

Fierce Wireless reports that the opt out procedure comes after AT&T updated its privacy policy to show that they'll tracking and then selling certain behaviors on mobile devices. Here's the gist of what AT&T is collecting:

Here’s some of the information we collect:

• Account Information includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, service related details such as payment data, passwords, security codes, service history, and other information like that;
• Network Performance & Usage Information tells us how you use our network, our products, and our services, and how well our equipment and network is performing;
• Web Browsing & Wireless Application Information tells us about the websites you visit and the mobile applications you use on our network;
• Location Information tells us where your wireless device is located, as well as your ZIP-code and street address;
• U-verse Information tells us about which programs you watch and record, the games you play, the applications you use and similar information about how you use our U-verse services and applications.

The good news is that opting out is easy: just head to this page, and click the "Check to Opt-out" boxes. 

For Verizon Users be sure you pro-out with this link http://www.vzw.com/myprivacy

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Don't Keep Your Pet In the Heat

Its summer time and we all know some dog owners love to take their dogs when running errands. But nothing is more frustrating than seeing a dog inside a car on a HOT summer day with just a few inches of windows opening. Some people don't understand that leaving mans best friend can cause serious damage. (Pretend you're in a that car with a sweater on).

Which is why this video from veterinarian Dr. Ernie Ward might change your mind about leaving your friend all by themselves. Please don't try this experiment, your buddy just hopes you have the brain and heart to think about leaving him alone when its 70 outside. If you know you’ll have to leave your dog in the car, it’s just better to leave your buddy at home.

PS. I love my dog "Goofy"

Don't Get Scammed On Your Computer

Have you ever received a call from someone with a heavy Indian accent from Microsoft saying your computer had errors or viruses? The purpose of these calls is to get an easy $299 (or whatever amount they choose) by scaring you into thinking there’s something really wrong with your computer and that they can fix it for you.

Cyber criminals don't just send fraudulent email messages and set up fake websites. They might also call you on the telephone and claim to be from Microsoft. They might offer to help solve your computer problems or sell you a software license. Once they have access to your computer, they can do the following:

• Trick you into installing malicious software that could capture sensitive data, such as online banking user names and passwords. They might also then charge you to remove this software.
• Take control of your computer remotely and adjust settings to leave your computer vulnerable.
• Request credit card information so they can bill you for phony services.
• Direct you to fraudulent websites and ask you to enter credit card and other personal or financial information there.

Neither Microsoft nor our partners make unsolicited phone calls (also known as cold calls) to charge you for computer security or