Snap Forward Named a Leading Managed Service Provider
Snap Forward Named a Leading Managed Service Provider (MSP) Snap Forward has just been named to the MSPMentor 501 list, which is the IT channel’s largest and most comprehensive list of leading managed service provider (MSP) organizations worldwide. Based on a...
Google Updates the Mobile Friendly Site Checker
Google released a new version of its Mobile Friendly Site Checker recently. What is the Mobile Friendly Site Checker If you are not certain if your website is mobile friendly, simply input your URL and the Mobile Friendly Site Checker will do all of the work,...
New Top Level Domains Offer Creativity and Confusion
New Top Level Domains Top level domains are something that you see every day but probably never knew or cared to know what they were called. Simply, they are the .com's and .edu's at the end of every web site address. Generally, businesses have always sought to get a...
The American Dental Association Sent Out Infected Flash Drives
The American Dental Association sent out virus infected flash drives to dentist offices recently. While well intended, it poses a real risk to patient data security. It also underscores the need for dental offices to take it upon themselves to properly secure their...
Why your business needs a website and how to make the leap
It's safe to say that all businesses today need a website to succeed. A figure from a recent Google survey states that 50% of American businesses do not yet have a website and that businesses that use the web are expected to grow 40% faster than those who don’t....
Inexpensive SEO Tips
Is Inexpensive SEO Possible? Any business can benefit from a strong search engine optimization strategy. Deciding whether or not it's worth the money can be difficult. There are some actions that you can take to perform some inexpensive SEO for your website. If one of...
Getting Started with Social Media For Business
Getting Started with Social Media Getting your business on social media can be a time consuming task. Even worse, sometimes you can find yourself floundering around trying to figure out what the best use of your time may be, only to find out you were wrong. In an...
5 Steps For Getting Your Business Online
5 Basic Steps to Getting Your Business Online Getting your business online in a credible manner is important. Here are our top five tips when starting out online. Have a Professional Domain Don’t send emails from Iworkoutofmybasement@gmail.com. A domain name costs...
Google Reviews: Google+ No Longer Required
Good News for Google Reviews The largest deterrent for satisfied clients leaving positive Google Reviews is the sign in process. Many average consumers don't have Google+ accounts and the process of signing up for one is not worth the time to praise good work. On the...
Petya Ransomware Attacks Your Entire Hard Drive
What is the Petya Virus? Petya is a virus going old school by attacking the master boot record of a PC. While MBR viruses are not new, they have not been very common recently. However, ransomware has been very common in recent years. Petya takes ransomware to a new...
Weird Trick Adds Space to iPhones.
Need more iPhone storage space? Check out this article. It seems that if you are low on storage space you can follow a procedure that will allow you to increase it significantly. It involves trying to but not downloading an iTunes movie to your iPhone. Suddenly, you...
World Backup Day and What You Should Do Now
What is World Backup Day? World Backup Day was created to draw awareness for the need to backup your data. A significant portion of the public does not backup at all. While the World Backup Day website addresses the need for backup for everyone, at Snap Forward, our...
Apple Mac Tips
More Apple products are making their way into offices these days. This article, "Master your Mac with these tricks and shortcuts you didn't know you needed" on Mashable is a handy resource to increase your productivity.
302 Temporary Redirects Pass PageRank
Quick but important bit of info that came out yesterday... temporary redirects pass PageRank, according to John Mueller. @dhinckley @randfish I don't know about "link juice" but I do know how PageRank is handled. — John Mueller (@JohnMu) March 23, 2016 Although some...
Slack – A Cool App We Love
We started using the Slack messaging app at SNAP Forward some time last fall and love it. It enables fast communication and collaboration in an office where we have hundreds of tasks to accomplish at any given time. While we're not going to call it an email killer...
Instagram Just Became Harder for Business
If you use social media for your business, it just became more difficult and definitely more expensive to reach your audience. A few weeks ago, we saw Twitter move to an optimized feed rather than an "as it happens" live feed. A live feed is why we liked Twitter. Now,...
Apple iPhone Encryption Debate – John Oliver’s Take
John Oliver recently took to his show with a funny but well thought out approach to the Apple iPhone encryption debate. As he says, if you have an opinion about it, that may change by the time you are done watching this 18 minute rant. The best point of all is the...
Fake Reviews
Fake reviews on business rating sites seem to be a growing problem as companies look for an edge online. Not only is it unethical, it's also illegal. However, identifying fake reviews is usually not hard, you just have to look past the initial star rating. My Fake...
Dad’s a Hero, End of Story
So this story came out yesterday from Pittsburgh Pirates spring training and, from my perspective, is more a statement about how incredibly quick the dad was in saving his son from a world of hurt than anything else. @BiertempfelTrib The two frames showing just how...
CryptoLocker is Back with a Vengeance
In the past 24 hours, we have seen a drastic and potentially devastating virus being delivered via email. The Cryptolocker attack seems to be very widespread and so far, defending against it has been hit or miss unless a well planned security approach is in place....