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The Snipping Tool is a convenient utility application integrated into Windows that offers users with significant screen-capturing capabilities.

Listed below: how to use it and how it can prove valuable to your business.

If your business owns more than one computer, you’ve got tech to track. Laptops, monitors, printers, routers, projectors, phones; it all adds up fast. If you’re not keeping an eye on it, your business could end up with missing equipment, surprise inefficiency, or worse, security problems. That’s why tracking your hardware is imperative.

Websites also make excellent use of keyboard shortcuts you utilize every day to enhance your productivity. YouTube is an excellent source of entertainment and education; we want to help you get more value out of it with keyboard shortcuts. Listed below are some of the best that you should know.

At the beginning of this year, a massive data breach hit a location data broker called Gravy Analytics and took possession of a dataset with 30 million points from devices worldwide. This data could potentially be utilized to track individuals and their movements, tellingly, via healthcare, government, and military facilities. 

Alas, nothing can be done about data that has already been breached, but preventative steps can and should be taken to protect your business. Listed below: how to prevent your apps from tracking your movements.

Want more productivity from the workday? Multiple monitors can help you achieve this goal. You might run into the problem of “ghost monitors,” though, where your PC believes you are connected to screens when you’re not. If you experience this problem and your application windows are off-screen and unobtainable, you’ll find this week’s tip helpful.

In regards to social media platforms, Bluesky is the new kid in town, which means that most users may not have a significant following on it yet… and new users may not be following many at all. That being said, a few baked-in options make it much simpler for the latter to curate their experience on the platform.

Listed below: how a user can find new accounts to follow on Bluesky.

Sometimes problem solving requires you to step away and think about the problem at hand. Consider any great strategist out there and you’ll understand that it takes time and calculation to make moves that will benefit you now as well as in the future. Listed below: how you can be more productive via strategic pausing.

Last week, we discussed why X, the social media network once known as Twitter, has been losing many users. This week we wanted to direct those seeking a move to consider the up-and-coming platform known as Bluesky in case you were one of those jumping ship.

Listed below is how Bluesky operates and how to sign up.

Spoiler alert: a business that lacks productivity is unlikely to see any amount of success. One of the best ways to ensure your productivity is to practice patience. How can patience enhance your productivity?

Windows 11 takes a page out of Apple’s design playbook and provides a taskbar that, instead of being off to the side, is smack in the middle of the toolbar. While some may like this change, others may not.

Luckily for these others, a simple setting change can return the taskbar to its familiar place like on older versions of Windows.

Microsoft Excel is a great productivity tool and can be utilized in a lot of different and interesting ways. 

Being scammed in any capacity is a scary thought. To avoid this outcome, we must be vigilant all the time now.

Naturally, it also helps to know what to look for.

Listed below are a few warning signs and red flags that something is likely a scam.

Network security is hard, which is why so many businesses struggle to implement the solutions they so desperately need to stay safe and relevant. Below we demystify some of these components and lay out in clear terms what your highest priorities should be for your business’ network security.

A disaster can strike when you least expect it. It doesn’t matter how small or large your company is; there is always the possibility that your business could have to deal with the technological fallout of a disaster. Listed below are four ways you can prepare for that inevitable day.

Have you ever seen the file types that look like normal folders, but they have a zipper on the icon? These are called ZIP files, and they are helpful for several reasons. We’re sure you have encountered zipped files throughout your time using technology; we want to demystify them a little bit and show you how to use them effectively.

In April Google announced that the Android platform would be given the capability to archive unused applications to help preserve the precious storage space on the devices…provided that the device was almost out of available space. This auto-archive feature is now available to all users, regardless of the storage left on their device.

Phishing is a very dangerous, very real threat to today's businesses, which makes it extremely imperative that you and your whole team are prepared to spot and mitigate it. One simple framework to do so is known as the SLAM method, so let’s take a few moments to review some tips for using it.

Your network is an imperative part of your business, insofar as it is quite literally what powers your operations and enables you to work productively… at least, most of the time. Alas, there is always the risk of a network bottleneck, or a limited capacity for data to move due to a lack of available bandwidth. So, how can these bottlenecks be avoided?

Microsoft Excel is an extremely capable spreadsheet creation and management tool, made all the more powerful via the inclusion of many handy shortcuts and features. We wanted to share one for a common enough function that you are sure to find a use for it: quickly adding up the values in a single column.

There are numerous ways that Google can be a valuable resource for a business of any size. One way that you may not have thought of before: an automated insights collector.

Listed below: how you could be using Google Alerts to keep yourself up to speed on basically whatever you want.