General Topics Why It's Important to Regularly Update Your Website & How To Get Started A website helps educate visitors about who you are, what your business does, and to make sales. For a website to accomplish this, you must create engaging and relevant content that is easy to follow with clear call to actions. For this to work, you must get visitors to your
Security Topics Security Updates: An Instagram Bug, Free AV & Ransomware While working from home has become normalized, threat types and deployment have shifted in response. When the pandemic initially took hold, thousands of people were told to stay home. Some of these people used laptops and were allowed to take those home. Others were left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately,
Organizational Tips How to Customize What is Autocorrected in Microsoft Office Most software applications introduce changes with each newly released version and often in revisions. Microsoft Office applications are no different! The most controversial are those changes that move or group an existing feature to an unfamiliar place. This is often extremely frustrating for proficient users and can be equated to
Security Topics 5 Security Controls Accessible to Zoom Meeting Hosts Zoom meetings have become a staple of our lives. If you are a student or have children, it is likely being used to attend classes. If you own a business or are working, this is probably how you are keeping up with employees and coworkers. Even if none of these
Organizational Tips What you Need to Know About Technology Disaster Preparedness Most geographical areas have some form of common weather phenomenon threatening them. Unfortunately, disasters pose a huge threat to technology devices and user data. Consider a hurricane that changed direction and took out your home with all of your belongings. This would include computers and everything on them. Natural disasters
Advanced Topics How to Disable Active Directory Syncing with Azure There are several different ways Windows Active Directory (AD) can be used in an organization. Active Directory is used primarily to manage user accounts, their passwords, group access, home folders and permissions. Some networks have AD running only on local onsite servers. Other organizations use Azure Active Directory to manage
Security Topics 2 Current Scams you Need to be Aware of: Zoom Phishing & HIPAA It is unfortunate, but new scams are regularly introduced into the online ecosystem. Some scams piggyback off of older ones or use pieces of existing malware to launch while others are completely new. The one constant is that the more common a business or service, the higher the likelihood hackers
Security Topics 3 Things You Need to Do if You Think Your Email was Hacked Finding out your email account may have been hacked is something everyone can agree they never want to happen. If someone gets ahold of your email account they can cause all kinds of problems. Any amount the following things that can happen: * Emails can be sent on your behalf -
General Topics One Easy Way to Quickly Speed up a Computer's Responsiveness With the continuation of struggles linked to COVID-19, more of people's jobs are being carried out through technology than ever before. For-sale homes have video recorded walkthroughs for potential clients that can be viewed online prior to or replacing in-person visits. Documents for loans and other important paperwork
Security Topics Security Round Up: Voicemail, COVID-19 & Consent-Based Phishing Attacks As long as there are businesses and individuals with private information on devices that connect to the internet, scammers will actively try to gain unauthorized access to that information for nefarious purposes. The reasons why, the attack types and the way the information is used varies greatly. Sometimes it is
General Topics How to Add Discounts to Items and Invoices in QuickBooks Desktop There are many reasons for offering discounts to clients. Perhaps a product arrived damaged or is without its original box. There may also be circumstances where you want to regularly offer discounts, say for military members, seniors or children. QuickBooks desktop has two main ways to apply discounts - against
Security Topics 3 Ways to Protect Devices Now that you Work From Home The best way to protect devices from malicious attacks, including Ransomware, is to be alert. Unfortunately, there is no real way to prevent attacks, only preventing them from being successful. Using caution, staying informed, and making decisions at your own pace, rather than responding to external pressures, is the best
Organizational Tips How to Save Locally by Default in Newer Office Versions When new versions of software are released, they typically include a mix of changes, added features and also security patches. Sometimes the changes are subtle, other times the changes are dramatic. When Microsoft implemented the infamous Ribbon menu, which was probably over a decade ago, I don't remember
General Topics How to Set or Change your Location for Better Computer Results You may have never considered it, but location services work very differently on cell phones than on computers, laptops and other devices, henceforth referred to as computers. Most people are aware of how cell phones operate. They constantly put out a signal, or ping, to find the closest radio tower
General Topics One Way to Fix Broken Applications you Probably Never Considered When our applications and programs are working properly it is easy to forget how frustrating it can be once something goes wrong. There are several ways things can go wrong including having an application crash or hang or even having certain features of applications fail to operate normally. These issues
Security Topics One of the Most Important Ways to Protect yourself on Social Media You have probably heard lots of advice about how to protect your privacy on social media. Some of these may have been tips like: * Securing access to your information by sharing only with friends or requiring approval before people can follow you, etc. * Not telling people where you are or
General Topics 3 Ways to Purchase Software & Why The Differences Matter Early purchases of technology software included a license, an install cd (well, floppy's in the really early days), and a manual. Since then, many things about purchasing software have changed. This includes the way software is distributed - often via downloads, the way you learn how to use
General Topics How to Use Relative and Absolute Cell References in Excel Functions Relative and absolute cell references in Excel functions may or may not be something you are familiar with. Whether you realized it or not, if you have seen a function in Excel, you were exposed to at least one of them. Excel is best used to organize data which includes
Advanced Topics How to Fix Remote Desktop Permissions that Microsoft Broke Remote desktop is an application that allows users to connect from one computer or device to other devices. The benefit remote desktop provides is it allows you to connect to another computer without physically being at that device. This is extremely helpful for IT staff who can connect to computers
Security Topics Security Update: Scams taking advantage of COVID-19 For the past few months there has been one thing that has dominated everything else in the news cycle and in our lives. It continues to be important and there are going to be many ways it affects our lives for some time to come. And though it is a
Security Topics Security Warning: Hackers Exploit Outlook and O365 Rules not Syncing With more people than ever working from home, people are relying upon new forms of communication to accomplish the same tasks. For instance, working in an accounting department likely gave you the ability to quickly and easily confer with a coworker about a new vendor, outstanding bills or updates on
Organizational Tips The Best Way to Locate Overdue Invoices in QuickBooks Running a business requires a lot of hard work, time and focus. Once you finish whatever product or service your business sells, deliver and market the product, often the last thing on your mind is running QuickBooks or some similar program to manage your business. Unfortunately, one of the most
Organizational Tips How to Record Photoshop Actions so they can be Automated If you ever work with Photoshop, you know it can be an amazing tool. It can also be overwhelming at times because there are so many features. Whether you use it on a daily basis or a few times a year, there are some features you may not know about
3 Ways to Overcome Tech Issues with Inventory Down As businesses continue to rely upon employees working from home, one thing that will continue to be an issue is the scarcity of technology equipment for the average consumer. Before the pandemic, some people had the appropriate equipment to work from home. Others were handed items as their place of
General Topics How to Pick the Right Laptop Dock Being productive and effective is much easier when you have the right tools. This is true for any task, especially when it comes to technology. Having a device that can keep up, a comfortable place to work, and the right setup has a substantial impact. Laptops are extremely handy, portable
