Whether I'm packing for a day on the road or for a weekend trip, I try to keep in mind two mandates: 1) Don't forget anything this time, and 2) Less is more. Sometimes my quest to fulfill one of these negates the other and I either over pack or...
Tech Rec: Take the Next Step in Managing Financial Documents in the Cloud with FileThis
In an effort to go paperless, most of us have online access to documents that we once would have saved in our filing cabinets. While we no longer have stacks of bank and credit card statements, bills and tax forms jamming our files, we still have to spend time downloading...
Happy National Change Your Password Day! How Did You Celebrate?
February 1st was National Change Your Password day. Did you mark the day by evaluating and updating your insecure passwords? According to a recent study, after all of the media coverage of recent massive data breaches, the most common computer password for 2013 was still our old friend "123456" with...
Yes, It’s Okay to Shut Down Your Computer With the Power Button – Reposted from HowtoGeek.com
We saw this article posted by HowtoGeek.com by Chris Hoffman and thought that it was worth sharing. Many computer users were trained never to turn their PCs off by pressing the power button on their desktop PC's case. This used to cause problems in the previous millennium, but it's now...
Microsoft is Pulling the Plug on Windows XP’s Life Support
Microsoft has announced on April 8th, 2014 they will no longer support Windows XP. Many may not think that ending technical support and security updates for a thirteen year old operating system would be of concern, but a suprising 29% of worldwide computers are still running XP, making it the...