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A Brief Introduction (No, Really) to Virtual Private Networking
Any business should list its priorities as follows: #1 - Security#2 - Everything Else This means that, should an employee be working from a location that isn’t in your office, you need to have something in place so they can do so without compromising your security....
Tackling Five of Tech’s Biggest Myths
With the use of computers and mobile devices becoming persistent in the culture, there have been some myths conjured up by people that have become just as incessant. These lead to people getting the wrong idea about situations with their IT; and, ultimately believe...
Tip of the Week: Use Google Like a Pro
Google Search is the most visited website on the Internet. It’s so popular the company’s name has turned into a verb. Most users just type their query in the Google text box and try to navigate the first page. Typically, there is something of use on that first page,...
Pushing the Limits of the Smartphone Battery
The smartphone is a transcendent innovation of a brilliant idea. As these devices have gotten more and more powerful, it has seen a situation where the batteries powering these devices keep having to outperform the batteries from the previous year’s devices. The...
Watch Out for the One Percent
Do you know the phrase, “Locks only keep out the honest?” The idea is that even though you lock your doors, there is only a thin layer of glass and good intentions stopping a criminal from entering your home through a window. Cybersecurity is a lot like that, and...
Tip of the Week: Saving Money with Managed IT
It stands to reason that a business that can save some capital is going to be a business that has the freedom to do more with said capital - or in other words, the more money that isn’t spent on one thing, the more money that can be invested into improvements. One...
How to Choose the Right Server for Your Business
Small businesses may not always need servers as much of their business computing can be done over the LAN with storage based on a home PC. When your business grows large enough to need its very first server, or is large enough for a server and hasn't made a move,...
How Smartphones Can Make Your Business More Productive
It’d be hard to find a more influential modern invention (not counting the Internet) than the smartphone - it has expanded from voice and messaging to include entertainment, social media, and countless other purposes. This just so happens to include mobile...
Tip of the Week: Download Videos from Social Media
Social media is a big part of the modern world and sharing video is a big part of social media. What happens if you are shared a video, or see a video that you’d like to save to your computer? Today, we’ll take you through the process of downloading videos from your...
At Long Last, Windows 7 Users Have to Switch to Windows 10
It wasn’t too terribly long ago that Windows 10 was offered for free to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. While this offer was constrained to a limited time, the response was surprisingly stagnant. Why didn’t more people jump at the chance to snag the latest version...