Author Archives: Brian Schoen

Realnets seeking Project Manager for immediate placement

 Position: Project manager   Start date: Immediate   Type: Full time  Min. Experience: Mid Level  Benefits: Health / Dental      Realnets is seeking an outstanding organized, detail oriented, and technically sophisticated Project Coordinator / Project Manager. Applicants must be located in the Chicago O’Hare area in order to work out of our offices in Park Ridge. No remote [...]
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LinkedIn email scam alert

As always you need to be aware that the “From” line in your email isn’t necessarily where it is coming from. If you look at the properties of your email in Outlook or it might be called “show headers” in other email applications you will see something like this:                 [...]
Posted in General News

Facebook Powerball Lotto Prank – Greatest in history?

Who didn’t hear about the Powerball drawing last week? Chances were you had a ticket and were waiting just like I was to find out I just became super rich. I had even started to think about what I’d spend it on and what I’d give away. I think I settled on giving half of [...]
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Realnets prepares for emergency server co-location from Hurricane Sandy damage

  Given the massive power outages occurring on the East Coast due to Hurricane Sandy Realnets is preparing for quick implementation of co-location needs from businesses with servers that were located in New York and surrounding areas. We maintain a large volume of unoccupied servers, co-location spaces and network resources in the Chicago area. Realnets specializes in the recovery from disasters. As power [...]
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Go Daddy got you DOWN? Switch and save!

  We here at Realnets deal with other providers downtime every week. Realnets has maintained an operational uptime of over 3 years straight. Today Go Daddy is having one of it’s largest outages to date. In response we are offering a limited time offer. Switch to us from Go Daddy and receive your first 3 [...]
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Have you invested? The iOS / Android explosion

I remember how amazing it was when AOL hit the 1 million user mark. Of course it took quite a few years. It really was a long time comparatively to Facebook; that took growth to a whole new level. The digital age has seen exponential growth from the PC era in the 80′s thru the online craze of [...]
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Realnets launches Complaints.com

After months of coding Realnets is proud to announce the release of the new Complaints.com. New features allowing better commenting, category views and account level control of posting have been developed. The layout by Jimmy Lee and coding by Matthew Keelan came together nicely.  
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Facebook – How to download your pictures in one shot

I’ve been asked a few times… Brian, I want to download all the pictures I’ve posted to Facebook is right clicking and saving each one the fastest way? The answer is no that isn’t the fastest way. The Facebook archive feature allows you to download all of your data.  What’s in your archive? Photos or videos you’ve [...]
Posted in Helpful Tips

Microsoft decides you don’t want to be “tracked” by default

I certainly don’t know why Microsoft thought it was the public’s desire to be tracked by advertisers by default in the first place. You might not know it but by default IE does allow this. It might surprise you to know the new IE10 will be the first of the major browser to NOT do this by [...]
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Comcast to start charging for internet usage overages

According to Broadband Reports today Comcast will be testing two new approaches for charging users when exceeding the data usage cap. Comcast today posted this statement to the company’s Comcast Voices blog. It states that the company will be moving towards “improved data management approaches.” This is a code term for, we are going to start charging overage [...]
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