Queenie Says Hey!
Hello everyone!
This post will be a little different from the usual tech-orientated ones below, and you may ask: how so? Well, perhaps to your surprise, this is not Simon! In fact, my name is Queenie and I am the new public relations coordinator on the teccrab team. This post is a little introduction to what my role will be here and some insight as to who I am!
I thought it would be appropriate to start off with an explanation of my name. Recently, whenever I’ve introduced myself to someone, they tend to inquire about how different my name is. I suppose this is great for conversation starters so I decided to Google if there is any meaning to it. According to Wikipedia, Queenie is, and I quote, “an affectionate, or pet use, of the term queen – and is thought to be derived from the Old English word ‘cwen’, meaning ‘woman’ rather than a reference to the monarch or his wife.” To my delight due to my love for anything-British, this name was apparently very popular in the Victorian Era in the British Empire.
In August, I graduated from university with a Communications degree and am trying out this ‘working in the real world’ thing. I met Simon after landing an internship with one of teccrab’s clients, INTERNeX! Knowing my interest in social media, Simon told me about teccrab and asked me if I would be interested in working with him. After listening to his excitement and passion for the company and what he does – website development, internet marketing, and public relations – of course, I agreed.
Now, here I am, introducing myself to you! As the public relations coordinator, I will mainly be involved in the social media aspect of teccrab and for the event “MarioFit Fighting for Kids” as we are one of the sponsors. The journey to Mario’s success as a karate champion and fitness and nutrition expert has not come without difficulties. By competing at the 2012 BC Karate Provincial Championship, he wants to help children in need by supporting two charities, BC Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hunger Fund, for causes very close to his heart.
I truly believe that Mario has an amazing story which is why I am really excited to be working with him, along with Simon, in spreading the word for this upcoming event! In the next couple of months, you will be hearing from me regularly, and hopefully you won’t get too sick of me! I will be writing not only more in-depth on the event, but also on things like the newest technology craze or computer games. Yes, growing up in a family full of boys has definitely skewed my interest towards playing Footmen on WoW rather than watching Vampire Diaries.
Don’t be afraid to leave me a comment, tweet or Facebook message, as I really want to hear from you!
Cheers,
Queenie
Mac OS X Mountain Lion is now available
If you are a Mac user you probably heard already that there is a new Cat in town. Since today you can download the new OS, which is called Mountain Lion, right from the Apple App Store. But is that an update you will need? Is it save to update now or should you wait? I will try to answer some of your questions here in this post.
Let me start with the price. I was already impressed when Apple announce last year the new OS Lion for just $29.99 and thought this is quite cheap for an OS. This year Apple dropped the price even further and therefore you can get the new cat for only $19,99 which is really cheap, if you think about the extra features you will get.
Twitter is fully integrated into Mountain Lion, the Reminder function, many of us like on the iPhone, is now an extra application. A notification centre is integrated as well as iMessage (which I use since the BETA and love very much). You have now a nice extra Note App like you have on your iDevice (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and even Game Centre is now on your Mac. So basically Mountain Lion is building finally the bridge to your iDevices, something we kinda hoped for with Lion, right?
I could start explaining how every single of those function works, but first of all there are already tons of reviews out there and second I think most of us know how to use them. So I would like to mention one concern I had when I started the download, which is Games.
I had my bad experiences in the past, when I upgraded my OS to soon. Had problems to run certain programs, because the game developer were maybe not paying enough attention or didn’t care for those of us who not only work with their Mac, but also enjoy to play with it. Maybe it was because a few years ago the Mac wasn’t really a computer you use to play with. But in the last two years this has changed in my opinion. Many games became available on the Mac and I liked especially Blizzards effort in securing that their programs (Star Craft II and Diablo III) were shipped for Windows as well as Mac OS at the same time.
So now the question for those who like to play games on their Mac… Is it save to upgrade or should you wait?
Well I upgraded to Mountain Lion this morning and tested a few games already. So far I wasn’t running in any problem, was able to open Diablo III, used my Steam account and the games I had there such as the Witcher, Dungeon Defenders and Splinter Cell (to name a few). All of them were running just fine, I even had the feeling the games loaded slightly faster than before.
Of course I had not the chance to try out every single game, but had the chance to run a few and tried to pick them based on their age difference. So far no problems, which is good news, if you ask me.
Beside the games I tried also the new features and think that Mountain Lion is a very stable and great upgrade which isn’t that expensive. Spending $19.99 on a new OS, which by the way has also a lot of security features I didn’t mention yet, is in my opinion a no question. Of course for those who are skeptical it doesn’t hurt to wait a few weeks and to read more reviews, but for those who want to get their hands on Mountain Lion I would say go for it. Just make sure you read the instructions first, not all Mac’s are able to handle the new cat. Also a good idea is to make a backup before you start the installation process. I did not loose any documents and had no problem at all with the installation, but it is always better to be save than sorry.
I hope this short review was useful for you and if you have any comments please feel free to post them.
INTERNeX Summer Party 2012
INTERNeX is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with a hugh summer party at the rowing club. In those 10 years INTERNeX helped thousand of candidates form more than 50 different countries to work, live and learn abroad.
We would like to say happy anniversary and are very happy to be a Bronze Sponsor for the party which has the motto…
ALL AROUND THE WORLD SUMMER PARTY ☼
Here some more information about the event from their Facebook Event Page:
THEME: All around the world. Dress up in the colors of your country’s flag or national dress. We have candidates from all over the world; it’s sure to be a colorful event!
WHERE: The Rowing Club at Stanley Park
WHEN: Thursday, August 9th @ 18:00 – 01:00
COMPETITIONS/GAMES: There will be some great prizes to be won throughout the night. Take part in our mini competitions and fun games and you might just be a winner!
DRINKS: There is a bar at the Rowing Club where you will be able to buy your drinks for the night. *ID’s will be checked*
GUEST LIST: Everyone that wants to come to the party needs to put themselves on the guest list. You will not be allowed in if you are not on the guest list. You can find more information on our website http://internexworld.com/
or use those direct links:
http://bit.ly/MjynZC – For more information
http://bit.ly/NwxuQ8 – To sign up for the Guest ListThe INTERNeX Team look forward to celebrating with all of you!
AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE AN INTERNeX PARTY!
How can you check if your computer has been infected with DNS Changer malware?
You probably heard already the news about the DNS Changer and may wonder how you can secure that your system is safe. The easiest way to check your system is to go to this website:
But what is the DNS Changer? To answer this question please allow me to add an image from the FBI website to this post:
If you need more information please follow those links:
For Canada:
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/ccirc/2011/in11-002-eng.aspx
For the US:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911
To check your Mac:
http://www.dcwg.org/detect/checking-osx-for-infections/
To check your Win 7 computer:
http://www.dcwg.org/detect/checking-windows-7-for-infections/
To check your Win XP computer:
http://www.dcwg.org/detect/checking-for-dns-changer-on-windows-xp/
New teccrab Package – Website Start
Today we at teccrab would like to introduce a package which is, in our opinion, especially interesting for small business owners and startups. It includes everything you will need to have a professional looking, basic online presentation. A fantastic foundation for a more complex website. Of course the site will be created based on a standart template, but thanks to the amazing CMS, we will install for you, it will be easy to adjust the design and therefore change the look and feeling of your website.
We think, like mentioned in the beginning, that especially startups will like this package, because it will give you the chance to have a website created by professionals for very low costs. Thanks to many available components, modules and plugins, it will be easy to implement later things like an online shop, information request forms and/or an event calendar (to name just a few) as soon as you see that your business is growing.
Please find here the details of this amazing package:
- Your own CMS based website
- Up to 10 articles will be included in this package
- A standart Disclaimer Page
- We will setup your first Contact Form for you
- Basic SEO
Optional:
- Domain name registration
- Content Management
- Banner and Button design
- Twitter Integration
- Facebook Page
The price for this package starts at just $900.00 (*)
Additional to your new CMS based online presentation we offer our website support service for an amazing discount.
Sounds interesting? Than please visit our website and fill out the online form you which will find here:
http://teccrab.com/index.php/special-packages/website-start
(*) Please note – This offer will be for limited time only
teccrab first website -BETA-
The first version of the teccrab website is now finally online. The site is still in a BETA phase, but the main content, even if they still have to be reviewed again, is online. There is still much to do, but the BETA does look great already. Well at least that is what we think 🙂
If you check out our site you will see that we tried to have the Top of our website similar to the Top of our Blog. The first page has at the moment 3 images, which are rotating. Each image represents one of our core services. Below the rotating images we have a little welcome text followed by the copyright, address and links to our Disclaimer, Contact Us and About Us pages.
By clicking on “Services” you will find the core services teccrab is offering. We have Website Developing, Internet Marketing and Public Relations as the main products and split that later into sub services such as SEO, Banner and Button Design, Blog posting and Online Reputation Management, to name just a few.
Please find here the images you will as well find on our website. You will see that each service has it’s own little icon, we think this is a nice extra touch.
Please visit our website at teccrab.com and leave a comment below how you like our first website.
Thanks 🙂
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