Nancy Cawdrey Studios is located in Bigfork at 2230 Riverside Road.  Nancy is a contemporary artist that is a colorist with a strong sense of design whether she is creating a signature western art piece, an exquisite floral or colorful horse art. She explores various media, although dye on silk is her medium of choice.

Here are a few of my favorite pieces of hers…although, I don't think I could claim a "favorite" as all of her paintings are spectacular!!  I strongly suggest you take a look at the new online store for Nancy Cawdrey Studios or visit her gallery!   

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"Ok, This site, your site is the best website I have probably ever seen regarding this type of genre……If you had a donate tab I would donate…..Phenomenal!"

Needless to say, we were stoked to see that in our inbox this morning!!  What a great way to start your day!!

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I've been doing some research as well as looking into what can make or break a website.  It's interesting because a web designers professional knowledge/opinion has to work with the customers ideas, and sometimes they are not always on the same page.  But more often than not you see work by developers that won't benefit their customer with their business, in fact it will make users leave the site.  I recently stumbled upon a news article on Inc.com's online magazine written by by Christine Lagorio and Eric Markowitz. They interviewed 6 web developers that shared their top Web design pet peeves. I like knowing that we're not the only web designers that have web site pet peeves when it comes to design and functionality!

Whether you are thinking about redesigning your current website or building a new site, read these tips to inform yourself so your business isn't hindered with these poor choices.

http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/10/7-deadly-web-design-mistakes.html

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The past 10 years have yielded a number of significant improvements in computer technology.  The processor, ram and video capabilities  have made great strides and there has always been one bottleneck that has impeded the jump in performance.  The hard drive has been the one piece of computer hardware that has held back the progress and cutting edge.  That said those days are behind us and we can suggest a "must" computer service upgrade for your computer that will please the most critical of all computer experts.  The upgrade is to replace your mechanical hard drive (HDD) with a non-mechanical hard drive (SSD).  SSD stands for Solid State Drive which is basically a large memory stick that has built in help to access the information quickly.  It's size is half that of its predecessors and is 1/8th the weight.  Additionally, it consumes less power and displaces less heat.  The overall performance improvement is dependent on a couple factors: its transfer rate and interface.  I would suggest investing in a minimum 250 GB storage size, 6 Gb/s and SATA interface (connector).  A great suggestion is the Crucial 512GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s with Data Transfer Kit – CT512M4SSD2CCA.  You can find it at Amazon for $399.99 at the time this was written.  Here is the product link… http://amzn.com/B004W2BAXI.

This SSD kit comes with a transfer cable and software for making the process as easy as possible.  Simply connect the cable to the new SSD and your computers USB port.  Boot to the software CD and start the transfer software following the prompts to create and exact copy (image) of your old hard drive.  Once the copy has completed you can remove the old hard drive and install the new SSD.  You might need a adapter kit for a 2.5 to 3.5 drive bay kit to install the SSD in a desktop.  It should fit without issue in any laptop less than 4 years old.

The SSD computer service upgrade should yield improved boot times down to +/- 45 seconds and program start times of less than 5 seconds.  We've noticed on average Photoshop CS3-CS6 start times of 2-3 seconds on a Core 2 DUO laptop with 2 GB RAM.

The performance improvements of the SSD upgrade are sure to please and well worth the investment.

Let us know if you are interested in an SSD upgrade quote.  Good luck and happy computing.

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Did you receive an email like the one below… "Notify Only:  Payroll Transfer  Cancelled by Intuit"?  One of our clients did and it nearly cost them their Intuit QuickBooks security.  You need to be careful if you have and do not follow its instructions.  It is a phishing scam trying to obtain your Intuit QuickBooks account information.  The best thing to do is to just delete it and block the sender.
 
How do you know it is a phishing scam.  We use Outlook so what I did is moused over the "Log In" link which reveals the link (URL) that you will be directed to where you can supposedly update your account information to complete pending the payroll transaction.  The link is NOT an Intuit related link.  See the screenshot below.
 

You can read more about "Phishing Scams" at Wikipedia.com or you can contact us for assistance.

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How do you know it is a scam.  I use Outlook so what I did is moused over the "Sign On" link which reveals the link (URL) that you will be directed to where you can supposedly update your account information.  The link is NOT a Gmail or Google related link.  See the screenshot below.

"Dear User's
Dear Gmail Member,

Our records indicate that your account hasn't been updated as a part of our regular account maintenance.

Our new SSL servers check each account for activity and your information has been randomly chosen for verification. Gmail Member Services strives to serve their customers with better and secured.

To verify your account, sign on by clicking .

Please : Sign On to verify your account.

After your log on process your account is automatically updated and verified

Thank you for being a valued Google mail member.

Sincerely,
Gmail Member Services"

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