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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

4 Tips to Enhance Your Home Office

4 Tips to Enhance Your Home Office

With so many employees working remotely, it’s imperative that you do all you can to ensure they have set themselves up for success with their home office. To this end, we have put together a list of suggestions you can use to help your employees build the most comfortable, and productive, home office possible. Here are four tips you can implement for a more comfortable workplace.

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4 Tips on Navigating Telehealth

4 Tips on Navigating Telehealth

One of the fastest-growing services in healthcare is telehealth. If you aren’t familiar with this concept, it is essentially a virtual meeting designed to provide faster and more direct healthcare consultations and stabilize the ever-rising costs of healthcare. With health information being one of the most attractive to hackers, it is imperative to be mindful to do everything you can to protect your data. Listed below are four tips to help you successfully navigate the risks inherent with telehealth.

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Technology Decision Tips for Your Business

Technology Decision Tips for Your Business

If you aren’t versed in business technology, locating the right solutions can be challenging, to say the least. Technology should make your life easier, not more difficult. Listed below are a couple of tips to help you get started with deploying the right technology solutions for your business. Here are three tips to help you make the best, most educated decisions about the technology for your business.

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Tips to Minimize the Risk of Overworking

Tips to Minimize the Risk of Overworking

Remote work has become a significant part of today's business operations for many companies, but there is also a difficulty that frequently comes into play with remote work: the phenomenon of overwork. Listed below are some tips to help reduce the risk of overwork as people continue remote work.

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How to Find Your Printer’s IP Address

How to Find Your Printer’s IP Address

Having a network-connected printer is good, but there might come a time when you must know what the IP address is. Listed below is how you can find your printer’s IP address in the settings for Windows 10 and why you might need to know this information.

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Explaining CC and BCC in Email

Explaining CC and BCC in Email

We’ve all seen the fields CC and BCC in our email, and most of us have probably used them before. Where did we get those terms, and how is each of them properly utilized?

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How to Delete Temporary Files in Windows

How to Delete Temporary Files in Windows

We’ve all probably had the storage on our computer fill up a little too quickly for our liking. While you could delete or store unused files in the cloud, there is another method that you can use to quickly free up a little extra space that you might not have realized is there. If you can delete temporary files, you might find that you suddenly have a lot more storage space on your computer.

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Explaining the Konami Code

Explaining the Konami Code

If you’re familiar with the combination
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select-Start, you probably grew up in the 80s. This is because this combination of buttons is the infamous Konami Code, a cheat code that video games (and others, including some websites and software) have continued to reference since it first appeared in 1986.

Listed below the Konami Code’s origins, as well as the various ways it has been used since.

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How to Enhance Productivity via Google Chrome

How to Enhance Productivity via Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a very popular browser. For example, in June of this year, about 65 percent of the overall browser market share was attributed to Chrome. Because so many people use Chrome, we put together a few tips that can help make Chrome even more productive for the user.

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Nifty Microsoft Word Tips

Nifty Microsoft Word Tips

Microsoft Word is one of the most popular platforms in business today because it provides the results that businesses need. Sadly for some of these organizations, their employees may not be as proficient with Word as they need to be. Listed below are a few quick tips about utilizing Microsoft Word that you can share. 

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What You Need to Know About Blue Light

What You Need to Know About Blue Light

Every day it seems like there’s a new threat to be concerned about. Clearly, there’s the Covid-19 threat that the whole world’s been dealing with, but there’s also the smaller things that we’re supposed to be worried about, such as “blue light”, for example. What is that, and what can it really do?

As it turns out, blue light is more than just a marketing gimmick, and can potentially impact your health. Listed below are a few tips to help you filter it out, and why you may want to do so.

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Simple IT Best Practices for Your Business

Simple IT Best Practices for Your Business

Most modern businesses rely heavily on information technology to operate, so we thought it would be valuable to share some very simple IT best practices to help assist your operations by keeping your resources productive and secured.

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How Ergonomics Can Help You Remotely Work More Effectively

How Ergonomics Can Help You Remotely Work More Effectively

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, many businesses are maintaining their operations by enabling remote work. While we normally focus on how you should properly take care of your technology, we wanted to shift our focus momentarily to the people using this technology, and how they can do so more safely.

To do so, we have to consider ergonomics.

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Enhance Productivity by Sticking to a Routine

Enhance Productivity by Sticking to a Routine

Business efficiency can be helped by putting a concrete process in place, which is why it feels natural to develop one in the workplace. Naturally, these processes should also come into play when working remotely. What makes a routine so advantageous, and how you can develop one to optimize your success?

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How to Create and Edit PDF Files

How to Create and Edit PDF Files

PDFs (Portable Document Format files) are a common enough thing to encounter these days. Nevertheless, many people may not comprehend the extent of what can be done with them… like editing them. Listed below are a few of the ways you can create and edit a PDF file.

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How To Stop Google From Changing Words It Considers 'Wrong'

How To Stop Google From Changing Words It Considers 'Wrong'

Believe it or not, Google doesn’t know everything. For example, you may be trying to write up a document in Google Docs that Google doesn’t recognize. Maybe it’s one of your services that you’ve created a name for, or even the name of your company. The issue is that Google likes changing words it deems “wrong”. Listed below are tips on how to stop it from changing words you meant to use.

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Tips on How to Best Utilize PDFs

Tips on How to Best Utilize PDFs

One of the most common file types you probably come across is the Portable Document Format file, simply known as a PDF. PDFs are so popular because they are the best way to save a document so that, regardless of the device it is viewed on, the file will always appear the same. Did you know that you can do more than just look at a PDF? Below are some tips on how you can make your PDFs work for you.

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How to Create a Gmail Signature

How to Create a Gmail Signature

The email signature is a usually overlooked opportunity for a company to appear that much more professional. Listed below are directions on how to create your email signature in Gmail.

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Part Two: RAM

Part Two: RAM

The second part of our desktop buying guide will focus on RAM, or random-access memory. The primary goal is to clear up misconceptions about what RAM actually is; many users don’t comprehend the difference between storage and memory. 

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Tips on Organizing Your PC's Files

Tips on Organizing Your PC's Files

If you don’t take care of your PC’s files, you will soon discover that it’s easy to lose track of where exactly everything is. You have many, many file types, folders, and applications sitting around without any real sense of organization or continuity. Below we'll focus on how to help you better organize your files in a way that is simple to comprehend. You should be able to do so in either your operating system file explorer or in your cloud-based file storage.

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