We have moved our blogging site to www.frugalbrothers.com. This will allow us a lot more flexibility to create content, and extend, and empower our community.

You can also join us for “The Frugal Technology Show”. This live streaming show is designed for small to mid size business owners, managers, and IT professionals to exchange ideas, and money saving tips.

See you there!

There is a nifty utility that monitors your Exchange Server, and the host machine, all from your desktop. You can monitor your Exchange mail queues both public and smtp. You can also monitor your Exchange events, IMAP POP3, as well as the host CPU utilization, disk space and virtual memory. Oh did I mention it’s free?

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace, then you are in for a treat. You can find free Virtual Machines running server operating systems, many kinds of Linux distributions, and fully configured Application Servers running apps like SugarCRM. These are free for the taking!

My wife, Cindee has worked with me is our business for the last 16 years. In this video share some tips on how a couple can work together to build their business, and have a great marriage too!

We use Mail Archiver from GFi everyday to archive email to SQL Server. It’s fast, flexible and can restore deleted emails with 1 click, and eliminates “PST Hell”. Find out more in this video.

One of of our viewers asked for help because they are getting slammed with spam. I explain some of our tools to help eliminate the problem, and offer advice.

A recent Reuters article from June 19th 2008 cites a European study that says up 47% of IT staff are or have used their Administrator privileges to access information they shouldn’t. Personally I have big doubts about that.

In this video, we discuss the Pros and Cons of web based software vs on premise software. Although web based software has a lower upfront cost, buying your software may still make financial sense.

I have received some email asking why we use a mac here at FrugalBrothers. To me it’s a great computer that you can that you can run as a windows machine or run Apple OSX. One of the best presentation applications called Keynote is the best presentation software I know of.

Last April I was required to update Quicken 2005 Deluxe to Quicken 2008 because of Inuit’s sunset policy. I felt that I gained nothing from this forced upgrade other than gain functionality that Intuit killed. I have it on good authority other software vendors are considering planned obsolescence as well