Category: IT & Cloud Support Blog and Tech News

Word Quick Tip: Format Painter

I’m sure many of you often consolidate documents into a single document using the copy paste feature but do you often find the formatting to be completely different between all the documents? Use the Format Painter in Word and you can make the formatting uniform. Simply highlight the text that has the formatting you prefer…
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Gadget of the Week – Kraftwerk

Smart phones are an innovation that, in the last decade, have become as necessary to maintaining personal and business routines as a computer. Smart phones have always had a large disadvantage however; they lose battery quickly. Every new phone has battery life as one of their main selling points. Kraftwerk as a revolutionary idea to keep…
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Adware on your devices

Adware is software that once installed, creates advertisements based on user data and search patterns. The problems with adware are that it is often unwanted, a high security risk and is frustrating when it makes the user interface cluttered. Even though it requires consent from the user before installing, often times users unknowingly consent to…
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Crypto Ransomware

Why backups for your computer important

Data is often taken for granted. Once the save button is clicked we often find assurance in the idea that it’s saved to a hard drive on your computer and not on a piece of paper so it’s not going anywhere. This is a false sense of security. Hard drives are safer than a physical…
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Account security

Every small business using technology will always have concerns regarding security. Many steps can be taken to ensure the accounts of your employees are secure. Boot Networks and Microsoft offer some quick tips to making sure your business accounts stays safeguarded. Tip #1 PASSWORDS Ensure passwords for all accounts used by employees are strong. What…
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Phishing Attack Prevention

Why you shouldn’t have more than one anti-virus software installed

Anti-virus software is a good thing but having two of them can be detrimental. Anti-virus software keeps your computer safe. One way it does this is by looking for other software monitoring and spying on your activity. Since by nature that is what anti-virus and virus software both do, anti-virus software will always clash with…
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