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Merry Christmas! Have you eaten the remaining Thanksgiving leftovers? How about shopping the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales? Or, how about charity work, or visiting family? There are a mulitude of traditions people do each year. One of them is making plans to...

Is your business compliant? What does being compliant mean? Here is an example of being compliant for business owners... If you are a business owner. you have multiple regulations to follow. They could be HIPAA (medical), PCI (this applies to regular businesses where...

It's fall here in Middle TN, but if you blink, you might miss it. After record breaking days with temperatures over 90 degrees last week, some of us will be seeing temps in the 30's in the next week. These wide temp swings are commonplace here in Middle Tennessee and...

How many times have you said "That's too expensive!" when you get a bill? Most of the time saying that is simply a knee-jerk reaction. As a business owner, a better reaction would be to weigh the pros and cons of the products and services received before reacting in a...

We recently experienced a water heater failure just outside my home office. We were gone for a few days visiting our grandkids. A fun trip, but then we returned to a flooded office. The damage repair included having to move everything out of the office. Luckily, none...

If your computer is slow, it may not be the age. it may just need some TLC (Tender Loving Care). The following maintenance checklist is for Windows 10 computers. The steps may also work with earlier versions of Windows. Once you go through the steps, you will have an...

Have you ever bought a computer and didn't know what you got yourself into? Well, believe it or not, it happened recently to yours truly. Initial Purchase... I had my specifications that I wanted.... a laptop with a 500 GB solid state drive. an Intel I7 processor, and...

PT are Protection and Threats techniques that can be used to protect your computer. Physical Security The most basic computer security is controlling who has access to it. The person that has access to it, controls it. Passwords, hidden files, and other security...

Feeling old, slowing down, can't find things as easily? No, I'm not talking about YOU getting older. I'm referring to your Windows 7 computer. It's in it's twilight months. Current updates from Microsoft are primarily just security updates. By January 2020, those...

I recently spoke to a group where every attendee had at least some of their emails and passwords that had been breached. If you want to check to see if you have been compromised, head over to https://haveibeenpawned.com/ published by Troy Hunt. Based on the largest...