In just a few years Teams has risen to become the central hub for the way your business communicates and collaborates. It’s a smart application with so many different ways to help your people be more productive. Here are three clever tricks you may not have heard before. Number one: Mark a message as…
As an ambitious business owner, you’re always looking for new ways to help your business develop, improve, and grow, no matter how successful it already is. You’ll also want to improve the experience for your customers. And of course, you’ll be aware that your IT infrastructure plays a big part in this growth and the…
Everyone’s heard of the cloud. But do you know what it is? It’s likely you already use it in your personal life, perhaps to store digital photos and documents, or even for backing up your phone. When you access something in the cloud it means you are accessing information or using an application that’s on…
When you spend your days working across lots of different tasks and projects, you quickly realize the key to getting things done – is staying organized. There are lots of tools out there that can help you manage your task list. But sometimes it drains time from your day flipping between apps. Not with…
You’re happily humming along on the internet, thinking you’ve got a pretty good understanding. You can navigate your way around Google, Facebook, Amazon, and news sites. You’re actually only visiting four percent of the internet. There’s a whole world hiding beyond these safe surface-level sites, known as the Dark Web and it’s a much less…
Here’s a quick test – what do these seemingly random alphanumerical groupings have in common? 123456 password 123456789 12345678 12345 111111 1234567 sunshine qwerty iloveyou That is a list of the top ten passwords used in 2018. Recognize any of these? If you don’t, you’re not necessarily in the clear, but your chance of becoming…
Dark Web: (noun) Part of the worldwide web is only accessible by utilizing special software, allowing users and websites to remain anonymous or untraceable. It exists on an encrypted network that uses masked IP addresses to maintain anonymity for users and site owners. This way, people who use the Dark Web for illegal purposes can’t…
In the years we’ve been looking after businesses around here, we’ve noticed there are two different ways that owners and managers buy IT and technology. Some see it as an expense. Others see it as an investment. We choose not to work with the first group. It never ends well! Don’t get us wrong; all…
A good quality webcam has become a must-have tool over the last two years. Without them, business meetings would have been a lot more confusing, and let’s face it, boring. But hackers are finding new ways to spy on us using our own cameras. They can use rogue websites and apps to gain…
EXCEL: Always see the headings when scrolling Excel is great for looking at lots of data, but when you can’t see the column or row headers, you must scroll back and forth to check what the data means. Did you know there’s a great time saver which can lock the headers in place? Here’s how…
