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Best Tech Tips for 2016

July 5, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Best Tech Tips for 2016

With all the blog posts with tips and information on how to improve your online security and overall technological needs, we have decided to sum up the top, most important tech tips for you this year.     Update your devices! This is a very important step. This is something we’ve stressed multiple times in many different blogs because it is so...


Getting Optimal Performance out of your Network

June 30, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Getting Optimal Performance out of your Network

It’s always a drag when you have a ton of work to get done online but your network feels like it can’t keep up with you and your tasks. We have all been there before when we have to upload a document online and you can’t even seem to get the website to fully load. Many times the solution to...


The Decline of Tablet Sales

June 29, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on The Decline of Tablet Sales

Are we falling out of love with tablets? Say it isn’t so, but the love affair may be over. Or at least it is fizzling. Our relationship with tablets began in the early 1990s when Apple released the several sizes of tablets. The expectation was that the trajectory of tablet sales would shadow sales trajectory of iphones and smartphones. Well,...


Caring for your Keyboard

June 28, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Caring for your Keyboard

Have you ever thought about all the filth and germs your keyboard cumulates? According to ABCNews, your keyboard could be dirtier than a toilet. Truth is that sometimes we’re too busy working on getting things done by the deadline to go out on an actual lunch break, so we eat at our desk while we work. During these times, we...


Protecting your Mobile Device

June 23, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Protecting your Mobile Device

When you think of antivirus or security protection, your initial thought is probably laptops and computers, but truth is that smartphones and other mobile devices are no longer safe from malware and viruses. Mobile devices are susceptible to cyber attacks by malware and viruses created specifically to target them. It’s important to begin taking the same precautions we do on...


Preserving Laptop Batteries

June 21, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Preserving Laptop Batteries

We’ve all been in that position where we’re on a roll working on a project of some sort on our laptops and, almost out of nowhere, the red battery symbol comes up and instantly remember leaving the charger on the outlet next to your bed or office desk. What do you do then? How will you complete the project before...


Worst Cyber Attacks of 2015

June 16, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Worst Cyber Attacks of 2015

Did it seem like every month on 2015 brought a new announcement of a major company being attacked in one manner or another via cyber attacks? Well, it sure did feel like it and the statistics back up that perception. Tech Insider reports that nearly 300 million records leaked and over $1 billion were stolen in 2015. Shockingly, hackers besieged...


Securing Business Email

June 14, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Securing Business Email

Business email can be the bane of our existence, right?  It is never ending. It arrives constantly in our inboxes. For some of us we try to ignore it. While others try to open and get rid of it as fast as possible.  Unfortunately, business email is a primary way hackers can gain access to sensitive company data and information....


Are Cyber Attacks on the Rise?

June 9, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Are Cyber Attacks on the Rise?

Seems like security breaches are on the news constantly. Each week there is a list of companies who have been compromised and will be contacting customers whose private data has been hacked or stolen. But are these seemingly daily events really on the rise? Let’s review the stats for 2015 to see the results as well as the reasons behind...


Top Online Vulnerabilities

June 7, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Top Online Vulnerabilities

In the tech world there are not of gray areas but there are two certainties that are happening right now that can impact the security of your business. The first is that the use of the internet for business such as ecommerce, email, data storage, and so on is drastically on the rise. The second certainty is that security breaches...


Best Secure Deletion Programs for your Computer

June 2, 2016 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Best Secure Deletion Programs for your Computer

  We have all deleted items from our personal computers thinking that it is gone for good.  Guess what? It is not really gone at all. Deleted files are not necessarily lost forever. In fact, deleting an item just hides it from the operating system. It isn’t really gone until the same space is written over by something else. The...


Quickbooks vs. Excel

May 26, 2016 1:40 pm Published by Comments Off on Quickbooks vs. Excel

Are you a small-medium size business owner who still spends hours bookkeeping in excel? Are you spending the majority of the day creating excel formulas and formatting fields to change colors whenever a data change occurs? Well, maybe you should consider a more efficient and less time consuming way of doing so by using Quickbooks. The Quickbooks software is made...