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Get Your IT Ready for Holiday Shopping Holiday shopping will have a new look this year. Many retailers are closing their brick-and-mortar doors for Black Friday, and the big "doorbuster" sales are moving online. With the busiest shopping period of the year going...

Cloud Storage or Local Server - The Best of Both Cloud computing is the biggest buzzword in business today, and for good reason too. The cloud provides many a new-found freedom to do and achieve more than ever before. Greater collaboration, unlocking work...

When and Why You Should Use Remote Support If you’ve ever had a sudden computer problem, you know it can be very stressful. So much of our day-to-day life requires having access to a working computer. Homework, budgeting, bills, even browsing dinner recipes all have a...

Got a Bad Case of Password Exhaustion? You’re not alone! Most people use the same password everywhere – home, work, Gmail, Facebook… even for banking. Considering how many passwords we’re expected to remember and use on a daily basis, password exhaustion is a very...

Revive Your Slow Computer with an Easy Bottleneck Blitz Old age creeps up slowly – unless you’re a computer. Then it seems to happen overnight. One day you’re logging in normally and jumping right into the action, the next day booting up takes so long you not only...

What Is SharePoint, and Why Use it? Mobile, remote workforces still need tools to share and collaborate with one another. Business teams want to work together and get the job done efficiently. Microsoft SharePoint helps make that happen. SharePoint is used in science...

Why You Need Both Software and Hardware Firewalls A firewall sounds like a pretty intense thing - unless you're an action-movie stuntman. Yet when it comes to internet security, you may not have as much firewall protection as you need. Many internet security products...

Getting the Most out of Microsoft 365 - Book it! Accountants, dog groomers, and physiotherapists didn't get into business to manage bookings. You want to be working on the thing you enjoy doing, not fussing with phone calls and emails, trying to schedule times for...

What Are Cookies? Fresh-baked cookies are yummy, but you may not have the same positive associations with cookies on your computer. Here's what you need to know about cookies and what they mean for your internet browsing. Cookies have been around for a long time, but...

6 Reasons to Replace Your ISP (Bell, Rogers, Cogeco) Email When you sign up for an internet service, the provider will hook you up with an email address, too. Your internet service provider (ISP) wants to keep you connected to them. But this convenient email address...

What to Do about Slow Internet in the Home Office A few months ago we thought working from home would be temporary: a couple of weeks of remote work was going to help corral this coronavirus thing, and we'd get back to usual. Now we know better, and the things we...

4 Advantages of Consolidating Your Tech Technology is the lifeblood of business today, and you likely have a lot of it. But you may have accumulated software and hardware as you grew. Now, you have a hodgepodge of technologies never designed to work together....

Invest Now in Your Top Tech Priorities The global economy is in a slump. But believe it or not, now could be a good time to invest in technology priorities. You may already have streamlined processes. You had certain technology tools and systems in place to get things...

Recovery Test Your Data Backups Most businesses are aware of the need for data backup. Without it they risk losing important files in the event of a hard drive failure or cyberattack. Yet having a backup in place isn't enough: it's important also to test that backup....

Keep Your Business Continuity Plans Current Is there one thing we can count on now with COVID-19? The situation can change in an instant. You may have been confident in your business continuity plans in the past, but the pandemic has shaken us all up. It's a solid...

Pros and Cons of All-In-One Computers Today, business is all about streamlining and finding efficiencies. And that even extends to embracing all-in-one computers. Users get a desktop computer that integrates monitor, processing, and ports in one. Still, there are pros...

Backup Your Apple Computer There are many moments in life when we would like to travel through time. One common instance is when an important document disappears from our computer screen. Making things worse, we forgot to save it! That's hours of work lost....

3 Cyberattackers Putting Business at Risk Cyberattacks and data breaches happen worldwide, and no one is immune. Your business needs to protect its networks and systems, and secure sensitive data. But how much do you know about the types of cybercriminal out there....

Your Webcam Could Be Spying On You In the midst of a global lockdown, many of us have been relying on webcams to stay connected. These cameras let us join virtual meetings for work and online hangouts with friends. But bad actors can also use a webcam to spy. Someone...

COVID the Sequel: Revisit Business Continuity Plans There's a sequel no one has any interest in seeing predicted to open this fall - COVID: The Second Wave. Despite lack of audience interest, we could face another coronavirus pandemic. For business, this means...

Protecting Shared Computers for Work from Home Many families today have a shared home computer to help with day-to-day activities. A teen can search for a job and stream shows. A parent can check work emails, pay household bills, and shop online. A youngster can play...

Adding Accountability to Remote Work Today, businesses are embracing digital technology to enable productivity anywhere, any time. Yet ensuring accountability is a stumbling block to widespread acceptance of remote work. Recently, COVID-19 has forced many businesses...

Returning to Work: Prioritizing Safety with IT Too Your business has the OK to go ahead and get back to work on-site. You want to return to your office, but you don't want to risk people's health by doing so. After all, some say it's too soon to go back. Plus, others...

Help Wanted: Should You Be Hiring a Virtual CIO? How many seats are there at your C-suite table? A small business might have only a CEO. A mid-sized one may add another one or two C's - COO? CFO? CMO? But you don't have to be enterprise-sized to enjoy a Chief...