Matthew L Davidson | Lexington KY

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Buddy Guy ‘Living Proof’ Review

Not much of a review but a thought that just occurred to me. I just noticed since adding this “album” to my collection and uploading to Google Play that I keep going back and listening to this over and over.

Buddy Guy’s vocals and guitar playing really shine on this set.

To read some real reviews head over to The Chicago Tribune’s Turn it up: Album review: Buddy Guy, ‘Living Proof’ review or to Victory Music’s Buddy Guy: 74 Years Young review.

Lexmark 4Q Earnings Down 21%; Restructuring Unveiled

The Lexington, Ky.-based company has been phasing out its consumer business in favor of higher-performance laser printers and inkjet printers for businesses. It has also sought to offer more electronic-document management software and capture contracts to outsource clients’ printing needs in entirety, as its industry grapples with the reduced relevance of printing in the digital age.

Lexmark also unveiled restructuring plans Tuesday that it said will save $15 million this year and $28 million a year beginning in 2013. It said the restructuring will increase its focus on higher usage business platforms.

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Google+ Brand Pages

Setting up a Google+ page.

I am Checking out the new brand page on Google+ and setup a page for my company which does web design, cloud backups, and performs other computer services for our customers.

Not much to setting up the page. Enter the country, enter the phone number and Google tries to locate your business, then your prompted for an image to upload, and finally you arrive at your new page and are presented with the following options.

Start the conversation:

People want to hear from you! Start sharing photos, videos, links and other interesting content publicly

Connect your website:

Grow your audience by making it easy for people to find and recommend your page. Place the Google+ badge or a small code snippet on your site.

Tell the world:

This is a link to your page. Distribute it everywhere you communicate online to encourage people to add your page to their circles so your posts will appear in their stream.

Build your circles:

Once people have added your page to their circles, you can add them back. Use your circles to get the right message to the right people.

So as you can see it is really easy to setup your “brand” on Google+ but my problem is will it be worth the effort as Google+ is just not gaining traction against the big three social networking sites; linkedin.com, twitter, and of course facebook.

So let me know what you think. Is Google+ a must or bust?

Matthew Davidson

The Old Fax Machine

To test the send functionality of your fax machine.

So you have a fax machine but you have not used it in a couple of years, and now you find yourself needing to fax something important a.s.a.p., but you wonder if that old fax machine even works.

Send a one-page fax to 1-888-877-1655 which is a toll-free number in the United States. Make sure that you do not include anything you do not want to be seen on the internet!

Now point your web browser at the faxtoy website and within a minute, your fax should appear on the site. Click the thumbnail to see a large version.

To test the receive functionality of your fax machine.

Point your web browser to FaxZero which is a site that lets you send faxes for free* to anywhere in the United States and Canada.

Within a few minutes, your fax machine should ring — hopefully, it will automatically answer and spit out the test fax.

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Matthew Davidson
Lexington, KY
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Lexmark International Turns in a Better Second Quarter Than Expected

Lexmark executives said the company’s long-discussed strategy is paying off.

“That strategy focuses on selling printers that customers use more often, essentially “quality not quantity,” as CEO Paul Rooke described it to industry analysts during Tuesday morning’s conference call.”

Rooke said Lexmark’s managed print services offerings, in which it manages printing for clients, saw sales grow more than 25 percent.

Read more: Lexmark Second quarter sales!

Why You Should Backup Your Data

The number 1 thing that I see computer users fail to do is backup their computers, and then one day the computer will not start up and they are looking at me in disbelief. All of those images, songs, and documents that are now long gone.

Backups are so easy, and with the drop in disk prices the external USB drive, not a USB key or USB stick are a simple solution to backups.

I use these disks to get a complete image using Acronis, and then use my secure online backup service that I sell through my company. Online backups are simple, safe and effective, plus the data is out of your home and protected from fire, flood, and theft.

Read more about backups on the links below, and look up MLD Services for an inexpensive and locally supported secure online backup service.

PCMag: Backup and Recovery

PCWorld: How to Evade Data Disaster

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