Attacks using ransomware continue to be a risk for businesses, local governments, and nonprofit organizations, no matter how you look at it. Even with seriously high quality anti virus products available for cheap or no cost. Since 2014, more than 450 local governments, including city and county governments, have been…
Is A Clean Room Really Necessary For Data Recovery Services?
What exactly is meant by the term “data recovery clean room”? Wouldn’t it make sense for the whole operation to be tidy? Are there other computer oriented businesses that operate “dirty rooms”? Why doesn’t every data recovery company that caters to small businesses have a clean room? To begin, a…
Elevate Your Email Game
At work, there are admittedly some things that we take for granted. It might be because we have done the same thing thousands of times already that it almost feels like muscle memory, so we don’t really put a lot of thought while doing it. In other circumstances, we might…
Get Professional With Your Emails
With our work set-ups drastically changing since the start of the pandemic, there have been things and trends that have experienced a rise in popularity: web conferencing, remote work software, work-from-home arrangements, among others. But there is one thing that has been experiencing a resurgence: the lowly email. Who would…
Are You a Responsible Laptop Owner?
So, you have a laptop from your office and a personal laptop that you alone may use or you might share with your family. Congratulations! But you do know that your responsibilities don’t end there, right? Being a responsible laptop owner by knowing how to take proper care of it…
Don’t Turn Your Laptop Into a Horror Story Character
Got time for a COVID horror story? I am speaking from personal experience. It was in the last week of June when my company advised all employees to pack their belongings in the office and work from home. A week after, my A/C broke down, probably from working too much…
Want to be an Outlook Pro? Here’s How
If there has been anything that you’ve mastered during this pandemic, that’s your e-mails. I’m sure that with almost a year since initial lockdowns were implemented, you’ve gotten to have a quite intimate relationship with your office email server, which most likely is Outlook. If your Outlook page still looks…
Finding the Laptop for You
With September already arriving and with the pandemic still ongoing, an unlikely scenario has become reality: employees and students are stuck at home, working, and studying, respectively. That also means that work (and these days, study) from home essentials has become quite important. While in the “old normal,” hipster students…
Choosing the E-Reader for You
With most of us having so much time for work and play because of lessened commute time, we may find ourselves developing a hobby. Some of us have taken refuge in that almighty app called Netflix, where we pass hours in a day finishing full TV series or movie franchises.…
Rolling in the Deep(fake)
In this era of fake news, it’s almost a given that you’ve come across videos like Jon Snow apologizing for the rather underwhelming finale episode of Game of Thrones, Mark Zuckerberg boasting of being the owner of people’s stolen data, and Steven Buscemi attending the Golden Globes wearing what people…