Dark Mode may be easier on your eyes Dark Mode is all the rage these day. By reversing the dark and light elements of the page you may reduce eye strain, lessen battery demand, and help you sleep at night. If you wish to enable it, this article walks you through the steps to…
Using the Outlook program installed on your computer Virtually all email accounts can be accessed through a web browser. Using an installed version of Outlook on your computer, however, will provide more features, offline access and easier handling. This article will direct you to tutorials giving you step-by-step instructions to add your email account…
Watch out for fake package delivery messages You’re busy trying to meet deadlines. An email pops up with a package delivery notice, you quickly review it and click the link asking for more information. That’s all it takes to install malware on your computer. Even with all the pressure on us these days, we…
Save space and remove security risks Just as the Coasters sang so many years ago: “Take out the papers and the trash…. or you don’t get no spendin’ cash…”, we sometimes need to be reminded of this simple task. Yes, your computer has trash deposits that regularly need to be emptied. Take a moment…
A plan to use SharePoint and OneDrive to store and access your company data O365, Microsoft’s cloud based services solution, provides two applications (apps) for storing and accessing your data: SharePoint and OneDrive. This article (including posts) will introduce you to these applications and guide you as use them effectively and efficiently to store…
Please update your Chrome browser. A ‘High Severity’ zero-day vulnerability was discovered that is already active in the wild. A vulnerability was discovered in the Chrome browser just days before Halloween. Please take the 2 minutes you will need to make sure your version is up-to-date, so you don’t end up with a ‘trick’…
Sync your O365 emails to your personal device Easily take your Microsoft Office 365 (O365) email with you by syncing it to your personal device: Android phone, iPhone, iPad, tablet, etc. The information in your mailbox will stay up to date with your copy of the mailbox in the cloud (and on your computer).…
HDF’s email filtering system: What you need to know. HDF offers additional email protection through SolarWinds Mail Assure. Mail Assure filters our clients’ email before it arrives at their email server, blocking SPAM and viruses before they can reach our mailboxes. If you are interested in getting more email protection, or are unsure if…
Microsoft has released its new browser Microsoft has (fairly) silently pushed out the new version of it’s browser: Edge. You may have noticed the new “e” logo on your task bar, or worse yet, you may have noticed that your default browser was changed… without your permission. This article tells you everything you need…
How hackers breached Twitter – and what WE can learn from it On July 15th, Tweets were sent from 45 different accounts including those of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Obama, Apple and others. The attack did not crack any software or hardware security systems. They got access to the accounts by merely asking for…
Your computer stops responding… You’re typing on a Word document, and all of a sudden your cursor stops moving and your computer becomes unresponsive. You’ve just launched your browser and nothing is happening on your screen. You try to click it again, but the computer isn’t responding to anything you do. You left your computer…
Webex Tips for participating in a meeting This article will help prepare you to participant in Webex meetings by testing your computer and by guiding you to avoid some difficulties. While joining a meeting is very straight-forward, you may want to make sure that your computer’s camera, video, speakers and mic are configured correctly before…
The MS Office AutoSave feature can save you from disaster Have you ever forgotten to save a document and lost your work? Or the computer froze up before you could save that half-written report you’ve been working on for two hours? Microsoft’s AutoSave function was created to protect you from these events. But you…
Work remotely without feeling remote. Microsoft Teams is a hub for teamwork. It allows you to easily pull together individuals, no matter where they are, to share information, work collaboratively, and bridge their physical divide… be it the distance to their office down the hall, or to their home where they have been sequestered…
Access company resources and work productively from home If you are going to be working from home due to the spread of COVID-19, we provide a few guidelines to prepare you for it, especially for those of you who have not done so before, or have not done so for an extended period. You may…
IF KEEPING WINDOWS UP TO DATE WERE AS EASY AS REBOOTING ONCE A WEEK, WOULD YOU DO IT? Keep your Windows 10 computer running smoothly by making sure it gets updated at times convenient to you… if you don’t pay attention you may be putting your company’s data and your identity at risk. Fortunately, once…
