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Tip of the Week: What You Can Do with PDFs
By Tyler Miller | Apr 15, 2020
Most computer users have at least a passing familiarity with Portable Document Format files, better known as PDFs. As a tip, we’ll review how a PDF can be created, and even edited.
Read More → Tip of the Week: How to Customize the Dictionary in Google Docs
By Tyler Miller | Mar 18, 2020
Say you are looking to learn something about a concept that you don’t know much about, what do you do? You “Google” it right? So when you are using Google Docs you’d think that it would automatically know any word that you would type in. This isn’t the case. It knows a lot of words,…
Read More → Tip of the Week: Personalizing Your Windows 10 Desktop
By Tyler Miller | Feb 5, 2020
While Windows 10 is inarguably the better choice of OS over Windows 7 (especially now that the latter has officially gone the way of the dodo), the experience is made even better with the right customizations made to the settings. Let’s go through some changes you might want to make as you’re starting off (or…
Read More → Tip of the Week: Stop Word From Editorializing
By Tyler Miller | Jan 15, 2020
At the time of this writing, Microsoft Word has a market share just shy of 37 percent, making it a pretty safe bet that you’ve used it at some point. As a result, you’re probably familiar with Word’s insistence of changing how certain things are formatted, which can become irritating – especially if you had…
Read More → Stop Trusting Hackers With Your Smartphone!
By Tyler Miller | Oct 16, 2019
Do you have a smartphone? Do you feel as though your data is secure on it? Users are relying on smartphones more and more to accomplish daily tasks. This means there is a massive amount of data traffic each day transferred to and from your device, and potentially transferred into the hands of a cybercriminal.
Read More → Tip of the Week: File Management Tips
By Tyler Miller | May 15, 2019
Thanks to file management systems that can be digitized and stored online, filing cabinets can be considered a thing of the past. Of course, you still have to keep digital filing systems organized, but this is easier to do and more efficient than paper files. Today, we provide you with tips on how to ensure…
Read More → Tip of the Week: Leveraging Gmail’s Smart Compose Feature on Android
By Tyler Miller | Apr 24, 2019
With technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence entering further into our daily lives, what was once science fiction is becoming fact – assisting our lives (which most would agree is better than threatening our lives). For this week’s tip, we’ll show you how to leverage machine learning in a very basic way: in the…
Read More → Tip of the Week: How to Keep a Laptop Tidy
By Tyler Miller | Apr 17, 2019
I don’t mean to gross you out, but have you ever considered how disgusting your laptop is? Studies have compared the relative cleanliness of a keyboard and a toilet seat… and unfortunately, the keyboard wasn’t the cleaner of the two. This is why it makes sense to regularly give your laptop devices a good cleaning,…
Read More → Tip of the Week: Follow These Steps Before You Upgrade
By Tyler Miller | Mar 27, 2019
Why do manufacturers and developers constantly issue updates and upgrades to their software and hardware solutions? A business’s IT solutions might seem like something you want to set up and not think about ever again, but this is simply not how the cookie crumbles. This week’s tip is dedicated to why your organization needs to…
Read More → Tip of the Week: Handy Google Chrome Shortcuts
By Tyler Miller | Mar 15, 2019
It’s no secret how useful the Google Chrome browser is to a user. What is a secret, however, is that Chrome has some added capabilities that make it even more useful than first impressions would suggest. For our Tip of the Week, we’ll review some of these capabilities so you can implement them into your…
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