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Quick Links Calendar of Events River Legacy Parks River Legacy Living Science Center  Nature School Summer Classes Volunteer Acorns Gift Shop Rent a Pavilion GET HURRICANE HARBOR TICKETS FOR JUST $18! Race down the new Wahoo Racer Ride at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor & enjoy the thrills and spills of the Tsunami Surge, Typhoon Twister and more! Daily admission tickets can be purchased at River Legacy Living Science Center for just $18! All proceeds from ticket sales benefit River Legacy's environmental education programs! Get your tickets inside the Science Center at Acorns Gift Shop between 9 am and 5 pm Mondays through Saturdays!  Tickets make great gifts for graduation, end-of-school, Father's Day and summer guests. Tickets are valid for any operating day of Arlington Hurricane Harbor's 2014 season. Upcoming Events Sensational Snakes! Booktivity   2 pm, June 5, River Legacy Living Science Center. This joint program between the Arlington Public Library and River Legacy Living Science Center will explore the world of snakes through story time, rhymes, songs and crafts. A live snake exploration will be led by a River Legacy Naturalist. Geared for children in grades K-3. FREE.  Animal Exploration  2 pm, June 14, River Legacy Living Science Center. Discover the habits and adaptations of one of our native animals during a live animal observation with a River Legacy Naturalist. FREE. RSVP to 817.860.6752.  Saturday Story Time  11 am, June 21, River Legacy Living Science Center. Children of all ages are invited to listen to fun, seasonal stories presented by a librarian from Arlington Public Libraries. Stay after for related craft or activity. FREE. RSVP to 817.860.6752. Vegetable Gardening 10 am, June 28, River Legacy Living Science Center. Learn the basics of planning, planting and maintaining a vegetable garden during this adult workshop led by the Arlington Men's Garden Club. Recommendations will be made specifically for the Arlington area. Best suited for ages 10 and up. FREE. Space is limited. RSVP to 817.860.6752.   Contact Us River Legacy Foundation & River Legacy Living Science Center 703 NW Green Oaks Blvd. Arlington, TX 76006 reply@riverlegacy.org www.riverlegacy.org May 2014 Go on a Trail Hike at River Legacy for National Trails Day! River Legacy Living Science Center is excited to host several FREE guided trail hikes during National Trails Day on Saturday, June 7. An extended trail hike from the Science Center to the trails of River Legacy Parks will begin at 8:30 am, lasting approximately 2 to 3 hours. Shorter, stroller-friendly hikes are scheduled for 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm, and will take about 30 minutes to an hour. RSVP for a scheduled hike time by calling 817.860.6752. Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled hike time to check-in. Prep Your Preschooler For School!   Is your 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old starting preschool or "Big School" this fall? Give them a head start on school routines and learning fun by enrolling them in one of River Legacy's engaging weeklong summer classes in June and July.  Half-day programs mix outdoor explorations with hands-on indoor investigations and play time fun! Preschool offerings include Scales & Tails; Winged Wonders; Animal Sense-Abilities; Hide & Seek; Mighty Morphs and Wet & Wild. Of course, Summer at the Science Center caters to elementary-aged and older children too! So, don't let your 7th and 8th grader miss out on the science behind roller coasters in Amusement Park Science! Students in this class will build their own mini-roller coaster then conclude with a visit to Six Flags Over Texas for a day of observations, calculations and riding! Learn about these classes and more at www.riverlegacy.org or call 817.860.6752 to enroll today! SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 11 Nature Day at Barnes & Noble A Portion of All Purchases Benefit River Legacy Foundation!   Join River Legacy Living Science Center at 11:30 am, June 11 for a Nature Adventure Story Hour at Barnes & Noble Arlington at The Parks Mall, 3881 S. Cooper Street. All ages and families are welcome to participate in this annual event which includes story time, a craft and a visit with some lively creatures. During the day, a portion of all purchases at the Barnes & Noble at The Parks will benefit River Legacy Foundation's environmental education programs. Just let the cashier know that you would like to support River Legacy! So plan your summer reading and stock up on June 11!  Volunteer at River Legacy Living Science Center! Want to be a part of connecting children and families to the natural world? Join us as a volunteer. River Legacy volunteers are vital to our mission and help us in a variety of ways from special events, community festivals and day-to-day operations. Our immediate need for volunteers include helping with our Clay Shoot Fundraiser, front desk ambassadors and summer teaching assistants. To learn more about these volunteer opportunities, contact Volunteer Coordinator Alison McRae at 817.860.6752, ext. 109 or visit www.riverlegacy.org.   Future environmental stewards start here. Make a difference. Support the work of River Legacy Foundation.

Cryptolocker Virus Advisory

Cryptolocker Virus Advisory to Clients

As many of you might already know the Cryptolocker virus has been proliferating throughout the internet. This is a serious virus that encrypts all of your documents and requires its victims to pay a ransom to unlock their files. Infected users either have to pay the ransom or restore from backup.

Even though your computers are protected by Anti-virus software the virus may get through if the user is lured into clicking on the wrong email or web link.

Very recently we have seen the virus disguise itself as an email claiming to be a fax@[your domain] (Example: fax@bitxbit.com) with a link to the virus on the dropbox.com website. 

Do not click on this link and delete the email immediately as well as alert your IT support. 

As always be careful about opening any attachments being sent from unknown users. Also, never open any attachments with .zip or .exe extension.s


For more information on this virus please check the following link:http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/10/cryptolocker-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know/

Benefits for Business of a Hosted Desktop in the Cloud - The Bit Newsletter June 2014

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The BIT Newsletter June  2014 Edition Benefits for Business of a Hosted Desktop in the Cloud Cloud computing has opened up a number of opportunities for making working life easier, developing businesses at reduced cost, or just cutting costs generally. Chief among these is the hosted desktop using secure servers in the cloud. Across the globe, a variety of business owners are taking advantage of the cloud in this way. If you are among them, or decide to join them, you'll find you get a number of benefits. More Accurate Cash Flow Forecasting  Rarely would a business be operating without an internet-enabled device, which you need for your desktop to be hosted. Rental packages for a hosted desktop come in different forms and you can shop around to find what's best for your organization. After the initial one-off set up cost to incorporate your current data onto the remote connection software, you might prefer to pay annually, quarterly or monthly. Whichever you select, you'll know what you have to pay and when it will be due.   Host companies realize that their fee packages must remain flexible enough to add new software and user devices as required, so extras will be negotiable. There will not be any costly surprises for the duration of the initial contract and beyond. Money Saved on Hardware and Technical Support With a hosted desktop service, you save money by not having to invest in new hardware just to support software updates or gain more space for it. The provider will automatically upgrade everything, incorporating an end user license fee in the service charge. You won't have to employ as much technical support because this will be part of the service. If you have an IT department, it can be streamlined to work on data quality, research and development, training, or other core business needs. Your payroll bill could drop significantly. Working on the Move Relying on a hosted service means that you can have access to your software and business data anywhere. Everyone in the organization can work and communicate at home and out and about, just as if they were sitting at a desk on site. With mobile devices, either staff or company owned, which are networked into the hosted desktop, collaboration from anywhere is a simple matter. When you set up in a new location, once you have the hardware, you will be good to go straight away with a seamless and unobtrusive move. Boosted Staff Morale  When your personnel can use mobile devices for work as well as PCs at their desks, it's easy to allow them more flexible working conditions. This usually makes for a happier and more productive team, with benefits all round.  Automatic Security and Disaster Recovery With everything hosted and automatically backed up in secure, compliant data centers that are manned day and night by IT experts, you need have no security worries. Service suppliers will have made the investment in the latest developments in cyber security.  You can also be assured that your data will be safe if your premises are hit by fire, storm or other emergency. Hopefully, that will never happen, but if it did, it would be a great relief to have that worry lifted at a time when you'd have a lot more on your mind.  There are, of course, other ways to facilitate mobile working, but none bring such comprehensive advantages as the hosted desktop. It is difficult to find arguments against using a virtual desktop service from a recommended and reputable supplier. Bit by Bit Adds "Best of Breed" Cloud and Hybrid Faxing Solutions  Bit by Bit has been selling, supporting and customizing the Market leading Fax server solution – RightFax – for over 15 years, since it first ran on the OS2 platform.  With more than twice the market share of the next leading competitor, RightFax has long been the gold standard of on-premise fax solutions.   With Fax being one of the many business solutions organizations are moving to the cloud, Bit by Bit is proud to announce that we can also offer our clients the Market-Leading CLOUD based Fax solution as well, OpenText's EasyLink.      Offering the benefits of reduced IT Overhead, advanced Business Continuity and the highest levels of security and compliance, Open Text's Fax2Mail (Hosted Fax) and RightFax Connect (Hybrid Fax Solution) are very compelling business solutions for organizations that do a lot of faxing and want to simplify their  IT footprint.  With RightFax, Fax2Mail and RightFax Connect, we can now bring you the best-selling, most reliable solution regardless of whether you want your Fax to be housed locally, in the cloud, or a little-bit-of-both.   Reach out to your Bit by Bit sales Rep to hear about which solution is best for you. If we can help with any of your technology needs please contact us for additional  information. 1.877.860.5831 or email Just Bits... There's a fine line between genious and insanity. I have erased the line. - Oscar Levant People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. -  Winnie-the-Poo Managed IT Our standard is to deliver reliable, specialized and affordable network support systems both relative to your needs and built to grow with your company. No task is too big or too small – from fully outsourced network services to an added layer of extra security. We keep your systems up and running smoothly. Private Cloud Hosted Desktop Hosted IP Phones Helpdesk Hosted Fax Hosting RightFAX RightFax is the market leading "gold-standard" of  network fax solutions, with almost four- times the market share of the next competitor. Products Citrix Box Fortinet Fortivoice Cisco / Meraki VMware HP Dropbox Development Web / Ecommerce Application Database Ask the BIT Have a question for us? Locations: New York Texas Arizona New Jersey Vermont Oregon What is new with Box.com? Box.com has announced that they will remove the storage limits for the Business accounts. You no longer have to worry about how much storage you will use, and simply focus on using better cloud storage! Email us or 877.860.5831