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Internet Of Things Items Can Create Vulnerability

Elizabeth — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:30:55 +0000

Internet of Things items are convenient, otherwise they wouldn’t be selling. At least not next to regular, non-wifi-enabled items. They don’t even have to be connected to the internet, and they should stay that way! An Internet of Things item, or an IoT item, is a device that has a WiFi- or network-enabled computer in […]

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What Is Short-Circuiting?

Elizabeth — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:48:00 +0000

What’s a Short Circuit? A short circuit is when something comes into contact with an electric current, and unintentionally gives it a shorter path. For example, sticking a fork into an active toaster will result in the fork redirecting the electricity through the fork, because it’s an easier path. Fun fact: the reason the coils […]

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Computer Power States: How is Rebooting Different From Sleep Mode?

Elizabeth — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:05:00 +0000

Closing Your Laptop/Desktop Sleep Mode You may want to put your device into sleep mode when you need to save your battery life, when you need to move it, or when you need to step away from your desk for a period of time. Sleep mode doesn’t turn your computer or laptop off, it just […]

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Assigning Macros

Elizabeth — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:48:00 +0000

If you’re getting sick of having to, say, embolden and italicize words in your program over and over, have no fear – you can reduce the number of steps you have to take to do that (and many other tasks) using macros! How To Make a Macro The process is simple! To add a macro […]

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How to Bind Keys For Everyday Use

Elizabeth — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:37:00 +0000

Firstly, check out what bindings your operating system of choice already has built in to the program! Here’s Microsoft’s list of pre-existing keyboard shortcuts: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/dcc61a57-8ff0-cffe-9796-cb9706c75eec And here’s Apple’s: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 Microsoft To start, let’s look at Microsoft’s limitations. Every shortcut must start with the CTRL key. The second key must always be either ALT or SHIFT. […]

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Basic Adobe Acrobat Reader Instructions

Elizabeth — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:10:32 +0000

Adobe Reader is a free program offered by Adobe, that allows users to read PDFs. However, it cannot edit them, at least not for free! Adobe Acrobat DC Adobe Acrobat is a paid-subscription product that allows users to read and edit PDFs. How Do You Set One As Your Default Program? For Windows Users (10 […]

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Social Engineering as a Hacking Tool

Elizabeth — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:57:22 +0000

You may have heard by now that LastPass suffered a pretty big breach, although thankfully no user passwords were outright compromised (you should still enable 2FA on anything LastPass touched though – the URLs of the websites were lost in the breach so hackers could attempt to brute-force into an account they know you’ve visited). […]

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Microsoft ‘Buddy Programs’

Elizabeth — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:56:00 +0000

Outlook vs. Exchange Microsoft Exchange handles your emails. Rather, it handles them behind-the-scenes: you generally don’t have to get into Exchange to get your emails, just Outlook. Outlook is your mail client, the thing you use to send mail and look at the mail you’ve received, while Exchange is your mail server, which manages the […]

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How IT-Secure is Your Business?

Elizabeth — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:54:58 +0000

Take our quiz (via Google Forms) here: https://forms.gle/Yz36chVPMshp6bT57 And when you’re done, download or view our brochure (a PDF) to see how your points add up!

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More Antivirus is Not Always Better!

Elizabeth — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:36:00 +0000

Built-In Antivirus Microsoft Windows has come with it’s own antivirus for quite some time. Windows 10 and 11, for example, came with Windows Defender built in and on automatically unless another antivirus was installed, at which point it would automatically switch off. Windows Defender by itself is plenty of defense for the kind of run-of-the-mill […]

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