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We've survived the holidays and are returning to our normal hours which are Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm. We will be evaluating the performance data during our six open weekends and may adjust hours accordingly however until further notice we will be closed on the weekends. Feel free to provide your feedback to us via feedback@visionarycomputer.net 

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Once again Visionary Computer is proud to support Small Business Saturday on November 29th. It’s the start of our Holiday Hours where we will be open Saturdays from 10am to 4pm. To start the season off right, we will have a number of special sales taking place on Saturday as well as a bunch of free give-aways and some complimentary treats. Together, we can make this the biggest day of the year for small business. Best of all, you can get a $10 statement credit when you make a single $10 (or more) transaction right here at Visionary Computer using your American Express card! All you have to do is register your American Express card now through November 29th. Don’t delay; register now at www.shopsmall.com

Apple released the new Mac OS (operating system) Yosemite (version 10.10) a few weeks ago and many customers have called, emailed and dropped by to ask if we are recommending the upgrade. So rather than answer the question several hundred times, let me answer it once and for all…”It depends…”

I’ve never been the type of businessman to tell my customers what to do, I may provide them with my professional advice but we make decisions together always based on their needs. However if you have Apple’s iPad or iPhone you really need this product and I’m not just suggesting it, I’m telling you that if you don’t have it, you are making a huge mistake which could end up costing you hundreds of dollars and wasting lots of your important time.

One of the hallmarks of being a Mac user was that we’ve been very lucky in regards to viruses, malware and other bad things out there. Recently however a new vulnerability has surfaced and it’s called Adware. Over the past several weeks we have seen dozens of local customers become infected with up to 6 forms of Adware. Thankfully, removing this nasty stuff is very easy and I’m going to tell you exactly how to do it at no cost.

Generally speaking and contrary to popular belief, as computers age, they effectively get slower.  They do so because they become eclipsed by more modern and powerful computers. The software updates place increasingly more demand on the hardware and older computers just feel slower. If you kept the old computer in a vacuum it wouldn’t get slower but no one uses their computers like that, we are all tied into the Internet and we are always updating. Those updates are often required for compatibility with web sites and other files so we have no choice but to update and the updates makes our older computers run slower. But something somewhat revolutionary has happened which finally, at long last, can not only make older computers faster but can actually make them faster using today’s software than they were way back when they were first born and best of all, it’s pricing and finally come down to very attainable levels.