Received an email today from a longstanding customer who is using Comcast as his ISP. Today he tried to access www.mjtnet.com and received this message:

WARNING!
This site is rated potentially unsafe by TrustWatch!

You have been redirected to this page as a service of Comcast High-Speed Internet, which includes the Comcast Toolbar. TrustWatch, a critically acclaimed, industry-leading website verification service, has restricted access to the site www.mjtnet.com for your protection. Accessing this site could put you at risk for identity theft or other financial fraud.

What the!? Identity theft? Financial fraud? Where ON EARTH do they get that idea? Who do these people think they are?

So I googled TrustWatch and found their website. I clicked on their About Trustwatch page to find a phone number. I figured I’d give them a call. I did. I got this recorded message:

The number you have dialed has been disconnected

Doesn’t exactly engender trust, does it, TrustWatch?

Update: I tried emailing them via the email address listed on their site - info@trustwatch.com - and it bounced saying an SMTP connection could not be established.

Update 2: Seems someone else had a similar experience trying to contact TrustWatch

Internal Efficiency Improves Customer Service
"Initially the IT division was on a theoretical ‘25th floor’ and everyone was taking the stairs," says Garry Petzold, the chief IT officer at First State of Altus, Okla. "To better serve our customer base, while also meeting the needs of our bank’s technology infrastructure, I started researching solutions that would automate business processes and improve workflow. More…

I saw a link to this great video on a forum this morning. Great marketing. Not unique - remember the Honda advert? - but still very impressive and it is clearly working because I’m linking to it here:

http://www.clustarack.co.uk/

There’s also a great “behind the scenes” video here, explaining how they did it:

http://www.clustarack.co.uk/video.html

Just had to share. Enjoy.

I posted a link to a list of system error codes before. But I recently found this handy little utility which gives you a quick way to look up a Windows error code and find out what it means. Good to have on your desktop.

PDF documents are everywhere, but most of us don’t have the means to edit them. I’ve often received forms or agreements in PDF format and have had to print them off to complete and sign them only to scan them again to send in an email. But there’s an end to this madness in the form of a neat and inexpensive piece of software called PDF Annotator from our friends at Grahl Software. PDF Annotator lets anyone edit directly on top of a PDF file - add notes, comments, corrections, drawings etc. Ideal for filling in forms, adding your notes to technical manuals, or correcting other people’s work.

PDF Annotator will be on Software Deal of the Day on Wednesday 5th March.

I just love this quote:

“The IT division of First State Bank of Altus was on a theoretical 25th floor and everyone was taking the stairs. The implementation of Macro Scheduler Pro from MJT Net provided us with a much-needed elevator.”

- Garry Petzold, Chief IT Officer, First State Bank of Altus

Taken from our latest case study with First State Bank of Altus, which shows how automation with Macro Scheduler Pro has saved them up to $2000/month on ATM over-withdrawels and over $50,000 per year on staffing costs.

My favourite text shortcut tool, Direct Access, is on special at Software Deal of the Day today, with 50% off.

If you’re in the UK watch out for next month’s issue of PC Plus magazine (issue number 266). A full, unrestricted, licensed, copy of Macro Scheduler 8.0 will be on the cover disc. And inside you’ll find a discount code for version 10 - the latest and greatest.

There’s a new Software Deal of the Day site about town. It is called, appropriately enough, Software Deal of the Day and it can be found at www.software-dod.com.

Each day the site features a different software title with a juicy big one-day-only discount. Unlike other similar sites they also offer a “Second Chance Discount” after the software has been featured.

Macro Scheduler will be offered on Software Deal of the Day on February 4th. So if you haven’t got a copy of Macro Scheduler yet, keep your eyes peeled for the one-day discount.