As commonly happens with any disaster, COVID-19 has inspired no short supply of scams. While these scams initially focused upon the relief funds that were delivered to people to help sustain the suffering economy, the ongoing vaccine distribution efforts have given those behind these efforts a new means of attack. Let’s consider how these scams […]
Recently, a story broke in Florida that sounds like something out of a terse action film: A hacker managed to access a water treatment facility and subjected the Pinellas County water supply with increased levels of sodium hydroxide. While onsite operators were able to correct the issue right away and keep the public safe from […]
Email is undeniably a useful tool, but it can be a real drag on productivity and a hindrance to manage. Then again, there are some messages that you absolutely need to keep track of as they contain sensitive information. Gmail makes keeping messages under your thumb simple.
Google search is synonymous with searching the internet, but that hasn’t stopped them from constantly innovating the service. One of the most recent updates is to give users more context for the content that returns on search results. This works to protect users from potentially clicking on websites that could contain threats. Today, we discuss […]
While looking to the past isn’t often an idea tied to information technology, there are times when it can play a valuable role in your strategy for it. Let’s look at some modern IT concepts that rely on foundational ideas set back in the day.
Finding ways to save money is something most entrepreneurs take pride in. Today, as costs of doing business continue to climb, VoIP can present the business owner with the rare solution that actually saves them money. Hosted VoIP, in particular — where your phone system is hosted in the cloud — presents an innovative and […]
Novelty holidays have been all the rage for the past couple years. The thing is that if you are going to celebrate World Kimchi Day on Nov. 22 or its sister holiday, World Cabbage Day on Feb. 17, you either really like cabbage, or you really like holidays. With so many people using technology as […]
With cloud computing being utilized by a majority of businesses nowadays, it’s not as big of a surprise when one wants to move files from a locally-hosted server to a cloud server, or from a cloud server to a new cloud server. This presents a fair amount of problems you have to be mindful of […]
A business that has workers that are above average at maintaining productivity is typically a successful business. There are an endless number of suggestions on how to be and remain productive and how to sustain that productivity. One thing that isn’t typically mentioned in all of that self-help advice is the role that patience plays […]
If you’re trying to share an idea in a presentation, adding a brief video clip can make it simple to communicate with your audience. With this in mind, it is quite helpful that Microsoft PowerPoint makes it easy to embed a YouTube video directly into your presentation, whether you’re using PowerPoint 365 or PowerPoint 2016.