Wendy Howell - Eyonic's Weekly Tech Feed

How to Verify & Update your WordPress Version with Recent Security Threats

A new WordPress update recently released addresses three critical security threats as well as providing fixes to 60 bugs. WordPress has urged all users to update their software version to WordPress 5.8.1 as soon as possible to address these issues. Depending upon the type of hosting plan you

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5 Things you Need to Understand Before Building Any Website - Part 2

In Part 1 of this topic we dicussed three of five important things to understand before building any website. The post included browser icon images, optimizing for mobile devices and object placement. This post continues the topic by discussing the last two items - proper image useage and some Search

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5 Things you Need to Understand Before Building Any Website

Websites are a great way to showcase a business, hobby or craft. They can include videos, images, testimonials, interactive data, forms, contact and location information, calls to action, and of course, important information about what makes you unique. In other words, why you do what you do and why others

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3 Tech Situations Where it is Dangerous Not to Have Multiple Accounts/Versions

Most of the time the advice coming from those who work in technology or security will tell you not to ever share passwords, user accounts, or devices, as well as not to reuse credentials or use easy passwords. These are some of the basics of protecting your personal identity and

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Security Round Up: T-Mobile, Hospital Downtime & Lost Police Records

There have been several new data breaches, exposures and other issues affecting both businesses and individuals the last few weeks. This post discusses several of these issues, what we know about what happened, and what you need to know to protect yourself. This post discusses a T-Mobile data breach, how

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How to Create and Use Multiple Email Signatures in Outlook

Creating email signatures in Outlook saves time and is a great way to share all the information you want email recipients to see in a singular, convenient location. There are so many details that can be shared: links to a website, blog site, social media, direct phone number, backup contact

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How to Start Programs When They Fail to Launch

Sometimes when trying to start a program or application on a Windows device it takes longer than normal to launch and eventually you realize it is not going to open. This is at best a nuisance, but it could be halting a presentation to a board or conference, preventing a

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The Better Way to Adjust a Printer's Settings in Windows

After installing a printer, even when it is a simple printer, there are often all kinds of settings available to modify. Most of the time the defaults work well enough, though it can be helpful to adjust some settings. Perhaps you want the default print to be black and white

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How to Recognize When Government Notifications are Actually a Scam

The news the last few weeks has been saturated with stories about security threats and risks. Some victims are still being affected by the Kaseya hack from several weeks ago. Those without recent backups may be left in the lurch as ransomware gangs disappear or shut down. A recent Windows

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3 Ways to Increase Excel's Usability and Ease of Use

Microsoft's Excel is one of those programs that once you begin using it, you realize the genius of it and continually find new uses for it. However, Excel has a slightly bigger learning curve than an application like Word. Anyone opening Word can quickly imagine typing a document of some

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What you Need to Know About Last Week's Remote Computer Software Hack

Just before the holiday weekend Kaseya, a tech company that licenses remote management software to managed service providers (MSPs), was hacked. This hack affected approximately 60 MSPs and 1,500 businesses which has led many people to wonder what they can do to protect themselves against an attack of this

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How to Move Saved Account Credentials & Bookmarks in 2 Popular Web Browsers Part 2

In the previous post, we showed how to move account credentials saved in Chrome and Firefox from one device to another, or to a new user profile. This post continues the topic by demonstrating how to move bookmarks saved in Chrome and Firefox from one device to another. The longer

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How to Move Saved Account Credentials & Bookmarks in 2 Popular Web Browsers

Getting a new computer is exciting: having all the greatest processing power, efficiency, and storage. The increased capacity to make everything run more quickly and far more smoothly means we run into less frustrations and get more accomplished in the same amount of time. However, before we can really get

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How to Disable Chrome's Save Password and Credit Card Prompts

A recent update to the Chrome browser enabled the save password prompt by default, something that had not been before. After this update, whenever you visited a website and began entering credentials, a prompt to save those credentials in Chrome would appear just below the login box. It is always

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Security Updates: Amazon Sidewalk, a Breach and Too Much Ransomware!

There have been many security breaches and updates in the news recently so we picked the ones we think affect the most individuals. As such, this post discusses an important change with Amazon devices that every user should be aware of, a recent password breach and a roundup of recent

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5 Tips to Help you Start Using Photoshop Part 2

Last week our blog discussed three of five tips to help you begin using Adobe Photoshop. We also created a video demonstrating how to use these tools, which included: setting a color code and determining a color code, resizing an image using the canvas and image resize tools, and stepping

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5 Tips to Help you Start Using Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is an image editing software with dozens of built-in tools for manipulating images. Unless you are a graphic designer or have a need for understanding all the tools, there are probably more than you would ever need. Still, Photoshop can be a great tool. But with so many

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How to Modify Styles in Word You Never Knew Existed

There are hundreds of objects in Microsoft Word whose styles can be modified to meet your unique needs. An example from the Styles section of the Home tab is normal, which is applied to the general section of every new document. Other styles in this section include: No Spacing Heading

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Security Roundup: Parking Meter Breach, Gas Pipeline Hack & Identify Theft in Kansas

Over the last few weeks some new and impactful data breaches and security hacks have been exposed. You have likely heard about the ransomware attack that hit a gas pipeline, but may have missed others, like why Kansas often has three times the national average of identity theft, and how

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One Quick Way to Reduce Windows Boot Time

There are lots of things that affect the boot time efficiency of a Windows device. The type of drive, the amount of memory, the processor speed, age and what is on the device can all impact the Windows boot process. This of course is outside of regular and feature updates

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How to Reconfigure Failing AT&T Email Accounts in Outlook

Outlook is an application used to manage email account(s). It syncs all of your email, including sub-folders, to your local device from the email provider. Outlook also has built-in calendars, task lists, contacts, and notes. Having email stored locally means you can access information even when a device is

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3 Excel Features you Might Be Missing Out On

Excel is one of those applications that can do so much that people often wonder where to begin. Like anything else, without a practical use for the application, it can be challenging to find it a worthy investment of your time. I have already written several posts covering various topics

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How to Configure QuickBooks to Email Invoices Directly

QuickBooks is an accounting software that has been around for decades. Many companies that began using it years ago still use it because starting over with a new software often means losing access to, or making it hard to access, legacy data. In recent years many new competitors have entered

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3 Things to Help Protect you from Ransomware & Other Threats

The number of threats to your private information and files changes every day. Sometimes the threat comes from a company you do business with being exposed, other times you turn out to be the threat by accidentally clicking on something you shouldn't have. Considering how many threats are out there

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One Thing you Should Check When your Computer Runs Low on Storage

More and more devices use solid state drives, or SSD drives, because they boot faster in addition to running cooler which is a byproduct of how different the technologies are between the two types of drives. Unfortunately, until the last couple of years, purchasing a SSD with as much storage