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Listen for our ad on KMBQ.com, or check it out here. Only 3 more days – May 29 – 31, time to get into that attic or crawl space, wiggle under the bed – and get rid of those computer components that have been collecting dust since Windows 95 was the ‘thing.’

During the entire month of May 2012, in partnership with the Valley’s own Valley Center for Recycling Solutions, we will be accepting computer components, dead or alive, in the first ever Mat-Su Computer Recycling Drive. Drop offs from home users ONLY, will be accepted Monday through Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at our shop in the Crossroads Center Mall at the corner of Bogard Road and the Seldon Extension in Wasilla.

We will be accepting:

Desktop CPUs – Laptops & Notebooks – Keyboards & Mice – LCD & CRT Monitors – Cables and Cords

We will NOT be accepting:

Printers or Scanners
Televisions
Any other electronics

If you’ve received an email from PayPal notifying you of a payment through your website – and just trying to open the message causes your Windows computer to seize up, freeze up, and become uncooperative …

You’re one of thousands of PayPal users suffering from a known issue that PayPal is desperately trying to resolve, even as I type. Until that resolution has been implemented, PayPal recommends this temporary fix – modify your ‘host’ file – here’s how:

1. Start Notepad.exe as Administrator (right click the Notepad application icon, and choose “Run as Administrator”).
2. In Notepad, choose File > Open and browse to this location –  C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
3. On the page that opens, copy and past the following text into the last line of that file: 127.0.0.1 102.112.2o7.net
4. Save the file. Close Notepad.
5. Close Outlook, if you didn’t previously. Reopen Outlook – all should be well!

Optimize your print advertising for handheld devices by including your custom QR code – direct the public straight to your website or Facebook page. Fast and easy!

***SCAM ALERT!

Reports are coming in to the shop that a gentleman with a middle-eastern accent is calling people across the Mat-Su Valley, notifying folk that he has identified a virus on their computer, which he will repair for you if you’ll just ‘follow these simple steps’ to allow him to remote in to your computer.

This gentleman even called us here at the ITS Alaska Computer Services office! Consequently, I can tell you that his caller ID shows:
MB Enterprises at a number 786-439-0853.

***SCAM ALERT!

Get one-year FREE hosting when converting your existing web-site to the WordPress content management platform with ITS Alaska. Learn more about WordPress here, and contact our Web Development Team for an estimate for the conversion of your existing website to a system that allows you to easily maintain your own site, and add dynamic functionality quickly and inexpensively.

This offer valid to new or existing clients, through December 31, 2011.