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Four Tips to Protect Against Coronavirus at Work
The coronavirus pandemic has most of us wondering what we can do to keep from getting sick or infecting others. Because not everyone can work from home, we asked ourselves what other advice we could offer as IT consultants that would help keep our clients and their...
Has Someone Taken Your Domain Name Hostage?
I don’t love cleaning house. Maybe you feel the same way and just don’t want to deal with it, so you hire a housekeeper. Would you let her change the locks and put the deed to your house in her name? That’s what a lot of businesses do with their web and IT managers....
Elegant Themes Black Friday FREE iMac Pro Giveaway
Elegant Themes, the developers of the great Divi Builder which allows front-end editing and custom layouts, is sponsoring a generous Divi Black Friday Sale which includes a giveaway of a free, brand new iMac Pro, with blazing fast CPU, tons of RAM and 5k Retina...
Petya Ransomware Vaccine
Last night, BeepingComputer.com posted this article, Vaccine, not Killswitch, Found for Petya (NotPetya) Ransomware Outbreak, detailing how to protect against the latest ransomware infecting computers throughout Europe and abroad. White hat hackers have reviewed the...
Warning – Fake Invoice.Doc Emails Contain Locky Ransomware
A new ransomware called "Locky" is circulating via email. It comes in as a message with an invoice.doc attachment. If you open the attachment and don't block macros from temporary locations in Word, the macro will run and start encrypting your Office and PDF files....
Solved: MailChimp Popup Code Not Working In WordPress
MailChimp is a platform that helps you collect emails and send notices and newsletters to your site visitors. It's a useful tool and mostly free to use with sufficient features for the average website owner. One of those features is MailChimp's popup form builder...
SOLVED – Download Files from a Shared OneDrive Folder
In its new OneDrive interface, Microsoft has managed to leave out the only useful way to download all the files in a shared OneDrive folder. Recently, I had to grab files for a client via a link to a shared OneDrive folder. Before I could even start, I had to log in...
Solved: Windows 10 Mapped Drives Not Reconnecting
Fast is not always better. Windows 10 is fast. Sometimes it is so fast that it fails to properly load startup programs and fails to reconnect to mapped drives. Creating batch files to reconnect mapped drives just adds another component to startup and isn't optimal. An...
Tools for Printing File Lists in Windows with Path Information
Have you ever needed to print out a list of files in a folder or USB drive for eDiscovery purposes or because you needed a record of those computer files? You probably brought up Windows Explorer, hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard, pasted the captured image...
Handsfree Wireless Speaker – Magic Box II Review
As a trained audio engineer, I don't expect much from a tiny bluetooth speaker. I'm realistic about the quality and volume of sound I can get from a compact, wireless box. The DKnight MagicBox II Bluetooth 4.0 Portable Wireless 10W Speaker with Enhanced Bass and...