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Tip of the Week: Controlling Your Text in Microsoft Word
If you have used Microsoft Word, there’s an excellent chance that you’ve become irritated at the occasional insistence that when you type, sometimes Word will make seemingly random adjustments to the formatting of dates, hyphenated content, and other elements. Here,...
Managed IT Services’ Major Points of Emphasis
As a managed IT services provider, we are constantly trying to find the most effective ways to communicate just how much value our services can bring a business, nonprofit, or municipal organization. Since almost all organizations rely heavily on their technology, it...
Windows 7 End of Life Upon Us
With just days before Microsoft retires two of its most popular operating systems, the quarter of computer users worldwide are at the risk of losing support on January 14, 2020. Therefore, we wanted to take this opportunity to explore the ramifications of an end of...
Tip of the Week: Improving Your Organization Throughout the New Year
We all want to make our businesses more efficient, because the more efficient a business is, the more effective it can be. One clear way to do so is to boost your business’ organization tactics - both literally, and more abstractly. For today’s tip, we’ll cover what...
Debit, Credit, or Neither?
With most everything having gone digital, most consumers have changed their preferred payment method. Many different factors contribute to credit cards becoming the most used payment. Today, we take a look at why this has become a popular means of payment, as well as...
Do Browser Apps Put You at Risk?
For the average PC user, the Internet browser is probably the most utilized piece of software other than your OS. Depending on which browser you use, you may decide to download additional software to give you features that you typically don’t have or give you...
St. Isidore’s Night Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and with all the work done, The office was closing for some holiday fun; Their coats buttoned up, they had all saved their files, Everyone’s face creased in a big, toothy smile. Colleen from finance had handed out treats, Fresh...
Working Remotely, You Need a Virtual Private Network
To those who weren’t around BEFORE the Internet became an irreplaceable business tool, it’s almost hard to imagine how businesses operated when this tool didn’t exist. Storing sensitive data has never been such an easy thing to do, but at what cost? It is undeniable...
IT Can Have Fun, Too
Memes are some of the most popular--and important--ways people communicate. Today, we will go over what makes the Internet meme special and we’ll show you some of our favourite IT memes. What Is an Internet Meme? The concept for the meme was actually an academic...
‘We’re sorry’: 15M LifeLabs customers may have had data breached in cyberattack
LifeLabs, one of the largest private providers of health diagnostic testing, said in an open letter to its customers that the firm had become aware of a recent hack to its computer systems that contained customer information, names and logins. It didn’t specify...