Traverse Technology

Help, My Computer is Infected!

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:37:17 +0000

You have no idea how many times I have heard that phrase while owning my computer repair business. I have removed thousands of viruses and have helped hundreds of people clean up their computers. The problem is I am only one person and I can only work on so many computers in my local area.

What I have done is create an easy step-by-step process to show you how to clean up your own computer. This process will include a printable manual along with videos that will walk you through the entire procedure.

So if you are having problems with virus, spyware or malware on your computer take a look at my new web site and purchase the guide I have created there.

The new web site is Help, My Computer is Infected.

Motorola Droid for a Business Phone

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:03:09 +0000

My wife got me the Motorola Droid for Christmas (isn’t she amazing?) and I really wanted it because I’m such a geek, but I was also curious to how well it would hold up to being a business phone compared to my Blackberry Curve.

The Droid has proven to be a great business phone during the past month that I’ve owned it. The main reason is its great integration with the Google services. I practically live in Gmail and Google Calendar and these two components work great with the Droid without any additional apps having to be installed.

Gmail’s labels work perfectly within the Droid email software giving you the ability to view labels, apply labels to emails or even change the labels on existing emails. This was a huge drawback on the Blackberry for me.

The calendar works great, but there are a few things that bother me.

The calendar defaults to a month view each time you open it. If you change the view, close it then reopen it you will see the latest view, but if you have to stop that app it goes back to the monthly view.
When changing the date of an existing appointment you don’t get to see the calendar so you have to know the date beforehand or guess at what Monday’s date is 3 weeks from now.

Of course everyone has heard about the Droid’s physical keyboard and its quirks, but I personally never use it and prefer the on screen keyboard. It is very fast to learn to use and I have become quite proficient at using it. Another item that people try to use to compare the Droid and the iPhone are the number of apps available. At last count there were over 20,000 apps in the Android Marketplace. Sure there aren’t over 100,000 like for the iPhone, but I have been able to find pretty much anything I’ve been looking for.

Other than those few things the Droid has really been a great phone to own.

If you are considering changing your business cell phones anytime soon I would not hesitate to recommend the Motorola Droid especially if you use Google for emails and calendar.

Choosing the right Shopping Cart

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:32:10 +0000

I am working on a project where the customer needs a shopping cart to sell their products. Choosing a good shopping cart for a project isn’t normally a hard process, but this particular customer has over 150,000 products in many, many categories. So this shopping cart selection process is taking longer than usual because of these exacting needs. After many hours of research I have listed below the top shopping cart systems I have come across with some Pros and Cons in hopes that this may help you in choosing your next shopping cart system.

My needs:

Able to maintain 150,000 or more products with many categories
I prefer PHP as the programming language
To be hosted on my own server
Open Source so that I can edit/hack as I want
Need to be able to automate many functions like adding/deleting products

Here are the top shopping carts I found that fit my needs. (If you know of anymore please let me know and I will consider those as well.)

Magento – http://www.magentocommerce.com

PROS

Magento seems to be the crowd favorite right now. Lots of activity on the forums and lots of people developing themes for it as well (paid and free.)
Lots of people editing/hacking the code to make it do some cool things.

CONS

Slow to upload a lot of items. Only 1,200 items per hour! This is way too slow to do what I need done.
I would have to do a lot of editing to make things just right

X-Cart - http://www.x-cart.com/

PROS

Seems to be able to support large numbers of products.
There is a Windows based store manager that will make it easier for my client to update their web site.
Design is based on Smarty Template Engine so it should be fairly easy to have custom designs.

CONS

It isn’t free. X-Cart Gold is $115+ and the Store Manager software is $149
Not as Open Source as I would have liked.

Traverse Technology – Why YOU should use us!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:01:39 +0000

I have a desire to help small businesses overcome their fear of technology and help them realize the possibilities that technology can offer them. Let’s sit down and talk about your technology needs and dreams. Together I’m sure we can accomplish great things in your business.

I believe Traverse Technology can be a great benefit to your business! There I said it. Plain and simple. Traverse Technology is your best choice for a technology company. Why?

I eat, sleep and breathe technology – just ask my wife!

Call Traverse Technology @ 770-389-8552 so that we can talk about how technology can benefit your business.