These days the Internet is everywhere. Wireless hotspots abound at Starbuck’s, McDonald’s, and libraries. ISP’s like Cablevision, Comcast and Verizon are adding hotspots every day for their clients. Everyone I know has Wi-Fi in their house. It’s hard to go anywhere with your laptop or tablet and not have Wi-Fi access.

Hear ye! Hear ye! If firewalls don’t protect your content, what do they protect?

Let’s pretend you have a castle with numerous villagers living inside. It is defenseless to invaders that are looking to conquest. As the king, what would you do? You would build a wall of protection, of course! Sure your wall doesn’t protect each villager individually, but the wall protects your castle as a whole.

Never underestimate the power of a reboot! Quite often when we get calls from our clients having issues, through the course of troubleshooting we find that they have not rebooted their PC in days or even weeks. If we had a nickel for every time a simple reboot solved the problem, we’d be millionaires! Simply rebooting restarts a lot of hidden services which your computer relies on.

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Congratulations to our winner, Marya Maher of Generali Employee Benefits, the lucky recipient of a Click & Grow Smartpot.

QUESTION:    What was the name of the group of corporate and civic leaders who met in NYC in 1953 to discuss the revolutionary idea of bringing the public and private sectors together to develop and promote a national cleanliness ethic?

(ANSWER:  Keep America Beautiful)

At IT Radix, we believe in fun. That’s one reason we distribute these newsletters. They are meant to be engaging, interesting, informative and fun. As you can see, the theme for our newsletters during the first quarter of 2015 is “Just For Fun!”

IT Radix also believes in doing the right things that fit our clients’ needs and doing them well.

“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle proclaimed. We all know that we should brush our teeth twice a day, eat healthy, and get regular exercise. Sadly, not everyone does this.

Just as we should take care of our bodies, in business we should take care of our computer network because quite often it’s what makes everything flow through the business.

Our fearless leader, Cathy Coloff, shares some tips learned over the years that have helped her make the most of her time.

Everyone knows time is finite and it should be used wisely. It is so easy to procrastinate in today’s world, and so I’ve discovered my “golden hours.

CHANGE! Change is difficult. Change interrupts the status quo. Likewise, when a new client engages with your organization or business almost everything you do with or for them is different than the way they did it before. There are new people to meet, new policies, new phone numbers, new emails, new departments, new schedules…and so on and so on.

IT Services Consultant, Ken Toumey, has his head in the clouds...and you should too!

Surely you’ve heard a lot about the benefits of cloud-based technology solutions for business; the improvements in collaboration and file sharing, the easy scalability, reliability and redundancy built into using cloud servers.