Driving a powerful car can be an exhilarating experience, but if you have no idea what you're doing, it can be dangerous. This is why governments require drivers to pass a safety class before they can speed down the road encased in steel and glass. The Internet is also a powerful tool that can be exciting, beneficial, and dangerous.
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How vulnerable is your sensitive data on your PC to unwanted threats? Can anyone who gains access to your computer be able to easily find this data and do whatever they wish to it? If these files were encrypted and then hidden from view, you can neutralize the possibility of it happening.
According to a recent survey by Experian Marketing Services, the average American spends approximately 58 minutes per day on their smartphone. Those of us who are gadget lovers may respond by saying, "One hour, is that all?" A device taking up one hour per day has huge implications with how we both live and do business.
You can't log onto your online account if you're dead, and unless you have your password clearly marked on a sticky note, nobody else will be able to either. While the Internet is a great distraction to keep us from pondering our mortality, the issue of post-mortem social media forces us to face death by preparing a digital will.
At the end of the workday you may be in a hurry to leave, and as you start tossing your belongings into your bag, you come across your USB drive plugged into your PC. You're now faced with a tough decision; do you take the time to safely remove the device, or do you save 30 seconds and just unplug it?
With everything going digital, it's hard to believe that fax machines are still in use today. Surprisingly, sales of fax machines continue to increase every year. We're here to tell you the bulky fax machine as you know it is going away via a digitized fax server solution - and we have five reasons why that's great news.
Businesses operate differently than consumers on many levels. Take bill paying for example: a business cannot sit down for half an hour every month, write a few checks, and then be done with it. Businesses have employees dedicated solely to bill paying. Technology has the same divide - businesses have vastly different technology needs than consumers.
The whole purpose of having a network infrastructure is to allow different users to access and share needed files and applications. With your data centralized to a server, you will need to have a system in place that allows certain people up-to-date permissions to access needed files from every computer. This is where Active Directory comes in.
When it comes to listening to music while getting work done, it seems like you can either do it or you can't. Some office workers need absolute silence to get work done. Other people can turn up the volume, tune out the world, and still think clearly. Coffitivity is an audio app that brings balance between the right and left brain.
We understand if you experience significant anxiety when opening your electricity bill. Your anxiety probably happens because you know that your bill could be smaller if you only made a few adjustments to how you run the office. Little tricks like turning your lights off will save you some money, but to really make a dramatic cut to your bill, you should virtualize your servers.
There are many advantages that come with switching your company's traditional phone system to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VoIP uses the Internet to handle all of your communication needs, which can streamline your communications and save you 50-70% compared to a traditional phone plan. Not only can VoIP save your business operating costs, it can also make your company more efficient.
With Windows 8 firmly established and in full marketing mode, Microsoft is now preparing a major upgrade that they are calling Windows Blue. Microsoft will release full details about Windows Blue at the Build conference in June, and based on details that have been leaked, it looks like Blue will be Microsoft's next big thing.
Don't be an April Fool. Data backup is extremely important for businesses. If your data isn't backed up, or your backup solution isn't properly tested and maintained, your data could be at risk. That's why March 31st is World Backup Day! Check out and share the infographic and ask yourself, what would you do if you lost everything?
As an IT company, we get pretty excited about the newest computer hardware and software. We try to do our absolute best to get to know new technology so that we can advise our customers on the pros and cons of upgrades so that they can make the best decisions for their companies. There are many times when an upgrade would be in a company's best interest, but they decide against it. In our experience, here are the three biggest reasons why upgrades are avoided.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), is changing the look and feel of the modern office. As the ownership rate of mobile devices among American adults creeps closer to reaching 50%, more gadgets are showing up around the office, and they are being used to get work done! If you have yet to embrace BYOD in your office, then you will want consider these 3 advantages.
Every generation improves the technology of the previous generation. Sometimes technology can improve at such a rapid rate that it can make other technologies obsolete. It takes a bit of know-how to determine which technologies will last and which ones are just fads. We are here to help you make sense of all of these rapid changes.
We are not guaranteed a life without problems. Problems will happen and your plans will be ruined (okay, it's not ALWAYS that bad!). While you can't totally eliminate problems from life, you can greatly reduce them by being proactive. This proactive problem solving approach also works great with technology!
Computers have been designed to be easy and intuitive to use. Just about anybody can figure out how to open files and browse the Internet, but PCs are still complicated machines that require technical knowledge to fix and maintain. When it comes to the technical stuff, it's better to leave it to the pros.
Is your web browser's home page looking drab and boring? Do you wish that you could change it to something fresh and exciting but you just don't know how to do it? Introducing Home Page Settings! By using Home Page Settings, you can give your Web Browser that fresh look you have always wanted, and the best part is that it's free!
