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Entries from May 2006

Schrock Lands its First National Web Development Customer

May 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment

I am proud to announce that the National Council on Economic Education has selected Schrock Innovations to perform a significant upgrade to their website, http://www.econedlink.org. The NCEE website allows teachers to look for or submit lesson plans for multiple grade levels designed to educate kids about economics.
Schrock Innovations placed a bid with [...]

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Schrock Innovations Sponsors Deer Park Neighborhood Association Shirts

May 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Schrock Innovations is proud to sponsor the Deer Park Neighborhood Association’s new tshirts! The shirts will feature the slogan, “A Rich Past - an Exciting Future”
The Deer Park Neighborhood Association is one of Omaha’s most active neighborhood associations. The Association recently raised over $125,000 to build a brand new park in Omaha off [...]

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16,000 people Ask Schrock for SpySheriff, SpyFalcon, and SpywareQuake Help

May 30th, 2006 · 5 Comments

As of today, over 15,000 unique individuals have visited the www.schrockinnovations.com website looking for help removing the SpyFalcon, SpywareQuake, and SpySheriff spyware infections. SpyFalcon and SpywareQuake are the latest spyware threats in a string of similar programs that started with the SpySheriff infection in 2005. For complete background information you can read our [...]

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Google Doesn’t Celebrate Memorial Day?

May 29th, 2006 · No Comments

As many of you know, the popular search engine Google regularly tasks it graphic artists to craft variation of its logo to celebrate holidays large and small. For example, Google recently adjusted their logo to honor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday. They also change it for major holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving and [...]

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Newsletter Begins Reaching Homes

May 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Schrock Innovations newsletter has started to hit the homes of our customers (I received mine yesterday). If you have not received yours yet, or you are not on the Schrock mailing list, you can download and read an electronic copy at www.schrockinnovations.com.
The newsletter is in PDF format, so you will need Adobe’s Acrobat [...]

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Run Microsoft Word in Safe Mode?

May 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A new security loophole has surfaced in Microsoft Word 2002 and greater that could leave your computer open to any number of attacks. Microsoft acknowledged the threat today and explained a work around that does not immediately fix the problem, but would limit some of the effects if you were hit by a bug [...]

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My Friend Shoemoney Issued a Challenge

May 21st, 2006 · 5 Comments

My friend Shoemoney from www.shoemoney.com has issued a challenge to those of us out there who like to optimize pages for search engines. Shoemoney is offering a prize for anyone who can beat him in the ranking in Google, MSN, or Yahoo. Good luck on that. Shoemoney has been earning “shoemoney” doing [...]

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Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Official Minimum System Requirements

May 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Today Microsoft released the official minimum system requirements for Windows Vista. To run Vista in its most basic form you will need at least a 20 GB hard drive (not a problem for most people) and 800 MHz processor, and 512 MB of memory. Microsoft calls this the requirements for Vista’s “core” features. [...]

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A Whole New Milestone for Schrock

May 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I am proud to report that for the first time ever the Schrock Innovations website at www.schrockinnovations.com has had more than 10,000 visitors in one month. That means that between May 1 and May 16 more than 10,000 unique individuals (not just hits, but unique hits) took advantage of the free services on the [...]

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The quarterly newsletters are done!

May 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Our second newsletter of the year has been printed and is ready to be mailed. Keep your eyes on your mailboxes in Nebraska and Iowa next week because this newsletter has more tips and coupons than ever!
For our spring newsletter we are (appropriately so) featuring the the top myths about surge protectors. For [...]

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