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The Power of Regular IT Audits

The Power of Regular IT Audits: Protecting Your Business from Emerging Threats

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the stakes for your business have never been higher. Security breaches can cripple operations, making regular security audits essential for safeguarding your assets and peace of mind. Imagine driving without gauges—IT audits serve as your vital indicators, ensuring your technological infrastructure remains robust and efficient.

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How to Stop Your PC from Overheating

Overheating can be a serious issue not only for your PC, but for the lifespan of the components in it, as well as causing issues with performance, but how can you stop your PC from overheating in the first place? One of the most important ways to stop your PC

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Should You Use AI to Scan Resumes

With the recent advances in AI technology, it’s no wonder many businesses are using AI to increase productivity. These days, you can use AI to create images from scratch, write web content, and even scan resumes for you, but should you use AI to scan resumes, and what are the

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How to Make Your Windows 11 PC Run Faster

Over the years Windows 11 has continued to improve and add new features with every Windows 11 update. But with new features and background services being added, you might find your computer starting to become a little slower than usual. Not only can Windows updates slow down your Windows 11

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Are Remote Employees a Cyber Threat

With the number of remote employees on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, the modern workplace has seen dramatic transformations, but do these transformations pose a threat, and more importantly, are remote employees a cyber threat? The New Remote Working Landscape Before remote work became widespread, largely due to the

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The Pros and Cons of Biometric Security

Biometric security, which uses physical characteristics such as fingerprints, facial recognition, or voice patterns, has quickly become a popular method for keeping accounts and data secure in both consumer and corporate settings. It’s now a common feature in smartphones, banking apps, and even border control systems. But like any technology,

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Don Houk

What You Should Know About Microsoft 365’s New Pricing

Before long, the pricing for Microsoft 365’s business plans is set to increase. The company released a blog post about this in August 2021, and the changes are taking effect soon. Let’s review the pricing increase for Microsoft 365 and see how the service has evolved since its release to

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IT Security
Don Houk

How to Keep Your Microsoft 365 Account Secure

If your company uses Microsoft 365 for email, Office apps, and other services, it’s important to make sure your Microsoft account is protected. There’s a lot of information behind it that you don’t want outside parties to access. Let’s go over some of the ways to increase the strength of

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Don Houk

How Microsoft 365 Enables Collaboration in Office Apps

You might think of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as tools that you mostly use alone. But with Microsoft 365, these Office apps has lots of collaboration options that help you easily work on documents with others on your team. Let’s take a look at the most useful collaboration features

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Office
Don Houk

4 Neat Microsoft Word Features You Might Not Know About

Most people use Microsoft Word at least occasionally, and while the basics are easy enough to understand, Word hides a lot of functionality that you might not know about. Let’s highlight some of the useful Word features you may not have discovered yet. 1. Useful Options on the Right-Click Menu

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5 Great Microsoft Word Tips for Better Productivity

Many people use Microsoft Word every day for their job or personal tasks, but few take advantage of its depth of features. If you use Word all the time, it pays to know the most useful tricks to get more out of it. Below are some tips to help make

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Why You Should Give the Outlook Smartphone App a Try

Today, you rarely access email on just one device. If you’re like most business employees, you have an email app on your phone for managing your inbox on-the-go. If you don’t already use it, the Outlook app available for Android and iPhone is really solid and worth using. Let’s look

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The Confusing Office 2019 and Office 365 Licensing Scheme, Explained

Microsoft Office is standard software used in a majority of corporate environments. While Microsoft used to primarily sell Office as a one-time purchase, it’s now pushing the Office 365 option. With Office 2019 on the horizon, Microsoft has introduced several new restrictions and changes that might leave you confused. We’re

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5 Ways Office 365 Mail Beats POP Email

Your business has plenty of choices for email. For instance, Google Apps and Office 365 are two popular choices from big providers. However, many companies stick with inexpensive POP email, often provided through a website host, to keep costs down. While POP email is functional, it pales in comparison to

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How to Customize Outlook For Greater Productivity

Everyone uses email in the workplace these days, and it drives nearly everyone crazy. You probably receive hundreds of email messages every day. If you’re willing to spend the time to customize Outlook, a few minor tweaks can stop the barrage of unwanted emails flooding in. Thankfully, with some adjustments,

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How to Use Microsoft OneNote

Note-taking is an important activity for a lot of people. It’s impossible to remember everything important, so jotting it down helps you keep track of to-do lists, project schedules, and more. If you’re interested in moving your notes to the digital realm, there’s no better tool than Microsoft OneNote. Let’s

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