Category: Tips

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Cybersecurity

10 Easy Steps to Building a Culture of Cyber Awareness

Cyberattacks are a constant threat in today’s digital world. Phishing emails, malware downloads, and data breaches. They can cripple businesses and devastate personal lives. Employee error is the reason many threats get introduced to a business network. A lack of cybersecurity awareness is generally the culprit. People don’t know any better, so they accidentally click a phishing link. They also

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Tips

iPhone Running Slow? Speed It up with One of These Tips

Let’s face it, iPhones are amazing devices. But even the sleekest, most powerful iPhone can succumb to the dreaded slowdown. Apps take forever to load and scrolling feels sluggish. Pretty soon, simple tasks become frustrating ordeals. If your iPhone has gone from speedy sidekick to sluggish snail, don’t despair! We are sharing some easy tips to get your iPhone back

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Microsoft

4 Ways Small Businesses Can Leverage Copilot for Microsoft 365

What are some of the key differentiators that can propel small businesses forward? They include efficiency, productivity, and innovation. Microsoft has expanded the availability of one of its most dynamic tools to SMBs. A tool that can be a real game-changer for growth. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is a powerful new addition to the M365 suite. It was first offered

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Cybersecurity

Don’t Risk It! Why You Shouldn’t Skip Vulnerability Assessments

Cyber threats are a perpetual reality for business owners. Hackers are constantly innovating. They devise new ways to exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks. For businesses of all sizes, a proactive approach to cybersecurity is essential. One of the most crucial elements of this approach is regular vulnerability assessments. A vulnerability assessment is a systematic process. It identifies and

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Smart Home Technology on a Budget
New Technology

Smart Tips for Building a Smart Home on a Budget

Imagine a world where your lights turn on automatically as you walk in the door. Your coffee starts brewing before you even crawl out of bed. A simple voice command adjusts the temperature to your perfect setting. This is no longer just something out of a sci-fi movie. Today’s smart technology seamlessly integrates with your daily life. It can create

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Synology Insufficient Space to Upgrade v2

System partition cleanup… We’ve had some issues with Synology updates failing, migrations failing and just general issues when trying to do simple things. A lot of this stems from the fact that Synology limit the system partition down to 2GB. Here’s the official page for this issue. This can be very difficult to solve, and we’ve had several attempts at

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Synology Recovery Mode- telnet!?

This info is not new*, not my own work, and not super useful right now- can you make it better? Links at bottom.*ok the bash script is new. I couldn’t stand the thought of having to compile a C function to convert a DATE into HEX…thanks ChatGPT! Backstory A client backup NAS needed an update, but we noticed it had

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Company Moving? Don’t Make These mistakes!

We now have over 30 years of experience in helping companies move their IT infrastructure. Here’s a few tips we’ve collected along the way that could save you a lot of money and stress! Some of these things won’t be important to you, so… What’s the Scope? Think about the job- if it’s happening over the Christmas break you may

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Synology- ‘greyed out’ Folders in macOS

This is not my solution- thanks so much to ‘Wayne C.’ at Synology for providing this answer! Issue Client opened a ticket saying they could not access a couple of folders inside a share. But- the permissions were correct! After a few attempts to fix we went upstream to Synology, who first provided a solution around the visibility of files

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Adopting TP-Link Smart Home Devices into Home Assistant

Recent versions of the Kasa app require you to have a TP-Link account to adopt them. This wasn’t always the case, and many of us chose this brand specifically because we didn’t need to hand over our credentials to make the devices work. Thanks to a huge amount of work by many people, this was made pretty easy for me,

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