Church Website Demonstration

Last week I talked about integrating badges and church websites. I went ahead and did a quick and dirty build of church website because I wanted people to see a (rough) working example. As I was working on the site, my wife walked into my office and upon seeing my...

Churches and Open Badges

So I was checking out some of Mozilla’s recent projects and they are all very cool things like Mozilla’s Webmaker that allows you to do things like easily create phone apps. Anyhow, one of the cooler things I came across is called Open Badges. Open Badges...

Fixing Internet Connectivity Issues

The Internet has become a vital part of communication and information gathering for virtually any organization. So what do you do when your internet connectivity has issues? Here’s some tips I’ve compiled over the years:   Internet Service Provider...

New Cloud Storage Options

Why should you consider cloud-based backup? Consider these statistics: Between 70% to 90% of businesses who lose data due to catastrophe, hacking, or hardware failure close within 12 months. Shocking as that is, more than 60% close within 6 months. 6% of computers...

New Website Demo

We recently put up a demo website showing just some of what is possible with HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap such as full motion video backgrounds and responsive design (that means having a website that adapts itself to the screen size of the computer, phone, tablet, etc....

Updating To WordPress 3.8

WordPress brings a lot of added functionality and improvement to WordPress and GeekOut Technologies has upgraded all of our clients to 3.8. There was an interesting bug that popped up for some sites which I suspect may have been related to using a non default editor...

Cybersecurity and Penetration Testing Applications

I recently did a presentation for a high school computer science class. One topic we touched on was cyber security, penetration testing, and the fundamentals of hacking. I promised to put up a list of software used for hacking/penetration testing so here is a list of...

5 Ways to Prevent Cryptolocker Ransom

Imagine having all your files encrypted without your permission and being charged exorbitant prices if you want to decrypt them; that is precisely what has been happening on a large scale by a recent ransomware infection known as cryptolocker. While cryptolocker is...

Creating Your Own Social Network

Recently, ironically as it is, myself and some other IT professionals were answering a question on Linkedin about creating social networks for churches. There are probably quite a few people out there wondering the same thing… and with good reason, as churches...

What Airplanes Teach Us About IT

I’ve been flying airplanes since I was 15 years old, but due to a long hiatus from training I hadn’t actually gotten my pilot’s license until August of 2012. During this last summer I added ratings onto my license for bigger and faster aircraft with...