If you haven’t heard, CrashPlan announced today that they will be ending their personal line of cloud backup services in 2018. They have given me until October 2018 personally to do something with my backups, though this may vary by a month or two in either direction for some of you. If you use CrashPlan for … Continue reading Attention CrashPlan Users!
Welcome to the latest tip of the month! Today’s topic focuses on Outlook and how to identify common issues and reasons for them. With a little adaptation, these issues can be used for other Mail applications (Think Thunderbird, Entourage, or Apple Mail). These tricks are given from the perspective of Outlook 2010. Not receiving any … Continue reading Mail Troubleshooting
Welcome to this month’s tip! Our topic today focuses on the most common troubleshooting tricks for your router. Some are easy, others are more difficult, but all are useful in their own way. So here we go! Is it turned on? Yes, this is a tip. Why? Because I’ve really gotten a call for this. … Continue reading Troubleshooting your wireless router
Welcome to our latest tip of the month! Today we’re going to cover something you’ve NEVER seen before. How do I know this? Because I came up with it myself :D. Now before we go any farther, I should note that this is for Windows only. I apologize to the Mac users out there, but … Continue reading Custom Windows Trick!
Welcome to our latest Tip of the Month! Today’s topic: Improving your skill with Microsoft Word. Here I will cover two main points that can drastically increase your proficiency with Word. Rule #1: Keyboard shortcuts are your friend. Instead of right-click a selection and choosing Copy, use Ctrl+C (for Mac think Command+C). Your other basics include … Continue reading Microsoft Word tricks
This topic in particular will cover a few of the best practices to follow for your wireless network at home. This is certainly something that many people don’t consider – they put a password on the wireless and leave it alone past that. But there’s so much more that you can configure, and make your … Continue reading Wi-Fi Best Practices
Welcome to our newest tip of the month! Today topic is Outlook, and how to optimize it to help it run faster and be more stable. I’m sure you use Outlook at work, or have Outlook at home, or know someone who uses Outlook at work or home….right? Well, if not, you can still take … Continue reading Outlook Optimization
Welcome to this month’s tip! Our topic today is on wireless networking, and deepening your understanding of it. Do you have a wireless network at home? I’m guessing so. You got it, you unboxed it, you set it up following the wizard, and POW you have wireless. Then, when something breaks, what do you do? … Continue reading Wi-Fi
How much of your computer do you access with your mouse? Take Outlook for example. I’m sure you by now have defined your “comfort bubble” within it. You know how to open attachments, reply to emails, forward them. Calendars are simple, menus are intuitive (or ribbons????? Let’s not go down that rabbit hole), etc. WAIT … Continue reading Outlook Shortcuts
This month’s topic is how to optimize your search index, whether it be Spotlight (Mac) or simply Search (Windows). For those that are unfamiliar with the term, search index is essentially the database on your computer that makes Spotlight and Search return search results so quickly. It keeps basic information on files and folders, and … Continue reading Index Optimization
