New Baby in DAS Family

A huge congratulations11078074_10100737333609573_4318987552487505133_n to Digital Age Solution Software Engineer, Tymon Hevner and his wife, Kara. On Saturday, they welcomed their first child into the world. Ms. Evryn Mae Hevner was born at 4:11 p.m., weighing 8 lbs. 4 oz. and measuring 21 3/4 inches long.

Everyone is doing great! We wish them all the best!

Windows 7 Put to Pasture

microsoft039s-windows-7-operating-systemToday, Microsoft moves Windows 7 out of Mainstream Support and into Extended Support. This final stage of support for a Microsoft Operating System means Microsoft will not accept design-change requests or provide new features that are raised by developers.

User will continue getting updates to secure the operating system and fix any bugs, but that’s about it. The operating system powers over fifty percent of the computers in use today, but Windows 10 looms right around the corner.

Windows 7 will remain in Extended Support for the next five years. Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 (which was a free update to Windows 8) will be able to upgrade easily to Windows 10. In fact, reports still circulate that Windows 8.1 users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free.  Windows 7 users will have to pay an upgrade price.

Digital Age Solution provides a demonstration unit of Windows 10 in its new store front at the Patrick Shopping Center, 467 West Patrick Street in Frederick, Maryland. You can experience the new operating system on a touch screen system built at DAS.

Digital Age Solution also offers a variety of computers built right in their shop for users. You can order your computer with Windows 7, while supplies last, or Windows 8.1.

A New Home

Digital Age Solution came to life ten years ago.  After ten years of designing web sites and helping folks on the site, Digital Age Solution would become a full-service I.T. Department for everyone.

At first, we operated without a physical location.  We quickly found that some folks wanted to bring their computers to us. So, we opened a tiny one-room office across the street from my house. After a few months, we rented the rest of the building’s first floor. We continued to grow and moved to accomodate that growth.

Today, we’ve moved once more to a space twice as big as our home for the past four years. We’re right across the street at the Patrick Shopping Center, 467 West Patrick Street, in Suite 8B.

I hope you will come visit us in our new location.  A lot of services will be added at our new location over the next few months.  New faces will be available to help you both in our store and at your location, too.

Thanks for your patronage!

Yours,

Mike

We’ve moved across the street to support the growth of our business! Come visit us in the Patrick Shopping…

We've moved across the street to support the growth of our business! Come visit us in the Patrick Shopping Center, 467 W Patrick Street, Suite 8B.

We love cleaning up the messes left by “Computer Techs” who take shortcuts.  Its often worth the extra…

We love cleaning up the messes left by "Computer Techs" who take shortcuts.  Its often worth the extra effort to do things right so that businesses can adapt to changes.  DAS offers the experience to do things right!

Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!  We hope each of you enjoys this beautiful day with those they love most!

Twenty-Five Years of Computing Progress

We’re happy to welcome Patrick McAllister to the DAS Family!  That’s two Patricks at DAS.  We’ll try…

We're happy to welcome Patrick McAllister to the DAS Family!  That's two Patricks at DAS.  We'll try not to get confused!

Upgrade Your Phones with a Digital Age Solution

Are your phones still connecting to the same old phone systems that restrict your movement, availability, and abilities?  Are you using POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)?

VOIP PhoneVoice Over I.P., otherwise known as VOIP, has transformed telephone services over the past decade.  Today’s VOIP systems can be integrated with your old phone service or be hosted totally in the cloud.

VOIP phones and phone systems connect over the Internet or over your Intranet to provide voice services.  The phones connect over the same cable as your computers and often allow you to connect your computer to the phone.  That eliminates the need to run new cables.  Some VOIP phones even run over a wireless network.

You can transfer your old phone numbers to a VOIP service provider and move totally to the cloud.

Cloud-based VOIP services allow your employees to work and communicate with customers and each other from anywhere and any device.  They can use their existing cell phone to send and receive calls on their work extension.  Customers never know that they are talking to your staff when they are not at the office.

That is just the beginning of the flexibility.  Some services integrate SMS (texting), faxing, conference calls, video calls, and so much more.  Many systems work with Exchange Server, Outlook, Google, and more.

There are services for home users that start as easy as Skype and Google Voice.  There are full business systems that can accommodate your entire business.

Digital Age Solution provides full service VOIP solutions.  We can install a system at your business or home that integrates your systems or implement a fully cloud-based solution.

Best of all, VOIP systems offer a significant savings to POTS.

Find out VOIP can save you money and provide you with a lot more from a telephone!  Digital Age Solution can help get you started and support you all along the way.

Microsoft Calling?

scamHere’s the scenario: Your phone rings.  You answer the phone and a friendly voice tells you that the call is from Microsoft.  They’ve been getting alerts from your computer letting them know that you have a problem with your computer.    The caller offers to remote into your computer to see what is causing the problem.

Before we continue with this scenario, please know that Microsoft is NOT going to call you about your computer.  They charge an awful lot of money for remote support, and they are not going to call you offering to do this for you.

Scared that your computer may implode, you eagerly allow this “Microsoft” technician to remotely access your computer, install some programs to scan the system, and run some “tests” on your computer.  After a while, the caller tells you that you have driver issues, viruses, malware, trojans, hijacks, and your flux capicitor is no longer fluxing.  Really, they’ll throw out any jargon that will make your eyes glaze over and fear run rampant through your mind.

As the list of problems draws to a close, this “Microsoft technician” offers to fix all of your problems, and may even offer to install their software to provide protection all year long for a low price of $200, $300, $600, or more!  The caller will even offer to protect all of your devices.  You’ll just need to provide remote access to each device.

Before you know it, you have zombie machines.  The computers slow down, fill with malware, pop-ups appear everywhere, and your good friend at Microsoft cannot be found.  The phone number and e-mail address left in a text document on your desktop does not work or no one ever responds.

We’ve had a lot of customers get taken in by this scam.  We’ve been trying to get the word out through social media, e-mail, phone calls, and any other means available.

If this has happened to you, your computers may be infected with malware designed to provide remote access to your system or worse.

Digital Age Solution’s technicians can help you remotely, come to your home or office, or provide support in our store.  You don’t have to rely on a stranger calling from remote locales.  We’re right here in Frederick, and ready to help you fight these terrible frauds!