Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

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 the New York non-profit organization to rewrite their current ColdFusion website in PHP with a MySQL backend. We will also be developing a new lesson plan development tool that will allow NCEE employees, volunteers, and interns to design web pages that display lesson plans in a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) environment.

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 of 13th and I-80. It was impressive to see so man families picnicking there this holiday weekend.

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 SpyFalcon, SpySheriff, […]

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 the 4th of July.

So when I woke up this morning and found the standard Google logo on www.google.com, I was a bit shocked. I checked around some Google forums on the web and found that I was not the only one who was surprised at the lack of a change.

Some people gave Google the benefit of the doubt with excuses ranging from “their graphics designers took a long weekend” to “Google is international and this is an American holiday.” Each of those excuses is flawed because taking the day off to honor those who you refuse to honor on your website would be truly ironic, and if anyone has the ability to detect what country a visitor is coming from it would be Google. Seriously, Google can tell me what HOUSE visits my website in some cases!

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 Reader to open it. You can download Acrobat free on the Adobe website at www.adobe.com.

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 that exploited this vulnerability – run Microsoft Word in Safe Mode.

Running Word in safe mode is a little like running Windows in Safe Mode. It will restrict some of its higher-level functions such as integrating with Outlook as your email client.

My friend Shoemoney 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 this longer than anyone I know.

Judging based upon shoemoney’s new H2 and his kick butt house in Lincoln, NE, shoemoney is doing pretty well for himself. He has been crowned the “ringtone king” in some blogs and forums. Alas… As good as we are at Schrock, Shoemoney and his 1,200 domains can put a footprint on anything I have to offer!

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. As usual, I would not recommend trying to run a Microsoft operating system with the minimum requirements. Vista has other features ranging from improved functionality to some pretty cool eye candy, but you will need some more horsepower to enjoy everything there is to offer.

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 Schrock website.

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 example, did you know that it is better to have no surge protector hooked up to your computer than to have a damaged one that *might* be good?