Organizational Tips Two Ways to Be More Efficient When Using Excel Data Filtering Using Excel can save a great deal of time if you plan ahead before entering all of your data. Excel can help locate and identify data trends, track sales and inventory, locate issues within your data, drill down into data to find outliers, help graph your data and much more.
Organizational Tips How to Set the Out of Office Message in Outlook with IMAP Mail An out of office (OOO) automatic reply is a great way to let people know you are not going to be available for a period of time. Out of office messages can be used for many purposes, such as letting people know you are on vacation, that your business is
Organizational Tips How to Snapshot Drop-Down Menus Using Delayed Image Capture Taking snapshots inside applications can be really helpful. Unfortunately, there are times when you want to capture a drop-down menu and this can be less intuitive. Luckily, taking drop-down snapshots is easy once you know where this setting is in the built-in application in Windows. How to Snapshot Drop-Down Menus
Security Topics 5 Key Ways to Protect Yourself Against Dangerous Scams Pt 2 In the previous post, we dicussed the first two of five key ways to protect yourself against dangerous and common scams. This post covers an additional three ways to help protect your data privacy and security. While new types of scams are continually being introduced, there are often universal aspects
Security Topics 5 Key Ways to Protect Yourself Against Dangerous Scams Pt 1 Digital scams attempting to access anything of value from you will never go away. New types of scams are thought of regularly, and the tactics or language used in them also changes over time. However, there are often universal aspects to scams, that when known and understood can help you
Organizational Tips 3 Reasons Why Your Business Should Only Use Domain-Based Email A domain is chosen by using the name of your business and adding .com, .org, .us, etc. to the end. For example, our business name is Eyonic Systems and our domain is eyonic.com. There are times when it makes sense to use something clever or shorter because the domain
General Topics How to Create a Website Sitemap for a Custom or WordPress Website In a previous post we discussed how to upload a website sitemap to both Google and Bing search engines. Website sitemaps are in essence an outline of all of the pages on your website, including any that are located in subfolders. This provides a mapping for search engines letting them
Security Topics 3 Things You Need to Know Before Using a Third-Party VPN Service A virtual private network, or VPN, is used to create a private tunnel between two different devices on the internet. The purpose of the VPN is to provide an additional layer of protection between devices. If you work remotely, you likely connect to your work environment for items like shared
Organizational Tips How to Submit a Website Sitemap to Google and Bing Search Engines There are two versions of a website sitemap, which is a document that lists all of the pages on your website. Many websites have a webpage you can visit listing the breakdown of every page on their website and showing its relative location. The other type of sitemap is an
Organizational Tips How to Continue Receiving Email Once You Reach Microsoft's Size Limit If you use Microsoft as your email provider, whether you just use a Business Standard plan for email, or a larger plan that has a suite of Microsoft products which include email, you may have run into issues with the size of your mailbox. Microsoft has a hard size limit
Organizational Tips 3 Times When you Should Create an Email Alias Rather than a New Mailbox An email alias is a way to have an email address that is not attached to its own unique mailbox, but instead is a redirect to a different email mailbox. In essence, the alias allows email to be accepted to that email address without it requiring a mailbox since it
General Topics Why New Wireless Access Points are So Much Better at Handling More Users All technology advances over time, and wireless access points are no exception. While wireless access points can easily last 5-10 years, they are one of those pieces of your network that is often placed and forgotten until you have issues. However, there are reasons for why you should upgrade to
Security Topics 5 Takeaways from Last Week's Tech Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Last week's technology outage affected a multitude of systems across many businesses in a variety of industries. Most people experienced some aspect of this outage, even if their own device remained unaffected. You might have been trying to travel or simply visit a website that was down. This
Organizational Tips The Best Way to Recycle and Reuse your Replaced Older Computers Replacing computers can happen for many reasons, but most commonly is having a part go bad in such a way that the device is no longer usable and/or replacing the part would cost more than the device is worth. However, the second most common reason we see users replace
Security Topics Security Update: Why Malware Protection on a Device is Not Enough There are several different names for security software you can install on your devices. Malware protection, anti-virus, and endpoint protection are a few more common ones and each is slightly different so it is important to know the differences when you purchase one. Having some form of malware protection is
How to Restore the History of an Entire Set of Browser Tabs in Edge Most of the time we are on our computers we have at least one type of web browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, open and each of those typically have dozens of tabs open. There are many reasons for having so many tabs open, including keeping things you have not finished
General Topics How you Can Access Rows or Columns in Excel that Fail to Unhide Excel is a great tool for tracking items, adding conditional formatting to data, looking for trends in data, having complex formulas auto-calculate, managing data choices based on previous selections, and so much more. Every time you think you know quite a bit about Excel, someone else will come along and
Organizational Tips 3 Tech Tips for Working More Efficiently in Web Browsers As more work is done within web browsers, it can be helpful to be aware of things you can do to be more focused and efficient while working. These tips are applicable both for use during work, as well as your personal life, to give you more time doing what
Security Topics Security Updates: Possible Ticketmaster Breach & Fake Antivirus Websites Most weeks there are stories of data breaches, ransomware attacks, spoofing, phishing, new malware threats, and more. It can be overwhelming trying to keep up with all of these threats, so we cover some of the larger ones that are likely to affect a great deal of people. The purpose
Advanced Topics Why Microsoft Email Stopped Working & How to Deliver your Emails If you have an Office application subscription, you likely use Microsoft for your email as well because it comes with most subscriptions. This is not the case with all O365 and M365 subscriptions, but it does apply to most. Unfortunately, when you do not host your own email, troubleshooting email
Security Topics One Thing you must Understand When Entering Security Settings on Accounts There are a lot of things to consider when creating new user accounts with different websites/apps. Some things to consider include using different user IDs or email accounts, using different passwords, using complex passwords/passphrases, using multi-factor authentication, and signing up only for accounts when you really benefit from
Organizational Tips Why your Router has Two Wireless Frequencies & When to Use Them When the router that manages your internet connection is set up, it often has built in Wi-Fi. It is also possible that you have a secondary wireless access point connected that broadcasts wireless to all of your local devices and connects them together. An example of this would be printing
Security Topics How to Authenticate Microsoft Accounts When Someone Else Configured Multifactor If you use Microsoft Office products, you know they have pushed for subscription based services for the last several years. More recently, multifactor authentication has also been pushed out amongst nearly all subscription accounts, which can make those accounts a challenge for administrators to manage. This post discusses how to
Organizational Tips How to Organize Photos and Files and Remove Duplicates Wasting Space One of the worst things that can happen to a computer, laptop or server, is to run out of storage space. As a device gets closer to running out of storage space, you can run into all sorts of issues, including having the device operate unpredictably. Moving files off of
General Topics Why Password Changes Break the Communication to Local Applications Password changes are probably one of user's least favorite things. Not only do we have to choose a complex password that meets the requirements of that particular account and is not something we have used recently, but we also need to pick something unique, something we can remember
