Allow employees to work from home. With gas prices soaring and employees traveling more than ever, the “virtual” office is becoming more of a necessity than a luxury. Allowing employees to work virtually from home or on the road will not only increase productivity, but also save you (and them!) on gas.

Check your network’s power settings
Allow employees to work from home
Go paperless
Replace old printers, copiers, and PCs with new energy-efficient models
Recycle old electronic equipment

Stinkgrass, Hairy Galinsoga, Goosegrass, Bull Thistle, Prickly Lettuce, Fizzer, Zeus, Rootkit, and Sasfis.

Do these names mean anything to you?   This is a list of nine intruders! You might not know all of them, but they sure can cause trouble for you.

Get rid of it. Now!

About 72% of all retired electronic products are stored for an average of three years. Electronics equipment loses value in storage, while needlessly occupying valuable storage space.
Try to purchase only upgradable equipment.

A computer cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server.  The message is stored in a text file.  The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized web pages for them.

Our fearless leader, Cathy Coloff, shares some tips learned over the years that have helped her to lessen distractions and become more productive.

One of the most effective time management tips I’ve learned is to manage distractions, particularly email.

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.