I already keep pictures of my family on my Backberry 8800. I don’t wear a watch so I rely on the device for telling time. My Blackberry even let’s me leave my iPod at home because I can listen to my mp3s and watch movies on it too, but will I ever be able to save my credit cards, identification, and replace my cash with features on my phone? (more…)

McAfee Avert Labs is claiming that 27% of all PCs their products have scanned since last Friday are infected with a Trojan malware named Downloader-UA.h. This Trojan was found disguised as media files on more than half a million computers. Believed to have been planted on file sharing sites like Limewire and eDonkey, users are tricked when trying to play a media file they downloaded.

As explained in the Yahoo news article Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs: (more…)

My name is Rich Brambley and I am a Senior Infrastructure Consultant with Optimus Solutions (recently acquired by Softchoice). I live and work in Atlanta, GA. I am a father of 2 sons, Zachary and Cooper, and I am second in charge to my wonderful wife Marilee.

This blog is my personal site. For my professional expertise check out my virtualization blog at http://vmetc.com, but on this site you will find anything and everything about my family, my friends, my sports teams, and a lot of personal opinions about desktop technologies, games, music, video and anything else that catches my attention.

Like most professionals in the IT industry, we can’t visit friends or family without eventually being asked to look at a slow PC, to help configure an email client, or recommend a gadget like a camera or mp3 player. So, since I’m doing that all the time anyways I figured I’d start a blog and maybe even get some collaboration from anyone who can help. Fell free to comment and ask questions!

I can be reached at rbrambley[@]gmail[.]com.

Oh, and there is no deep meaning to why this blog is called “treesum”. It’s an abbreviation for the apartments we were living in when I first used DynDns.com to set up my own “go to my pc” solution. Yeah, I am such a geek, I know.