With Office 365, it seems common sense has finally prevailed, giving business the changes they actually want. It’s still Office, and your staff will still know exactly how to work it, but they’ll get so much more done. [Read more…]
How To Stay Safe While Being Social | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
How To Stay Safe While Being Social
People happily share their private information online, building robust libraries that can easily become a one-stop goldmine for fraudsters.
It’s not exactly the intention everyone has when they sign up, as the whole point of Facebook is to share your life with your friends.
It hooks us into a global community and the experience does depend on us making certain privacy sacrifices. [Read more…]
LetMeIn101: How the Bad Guys Get Your Password | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
LetMeIn101: How the Bad Guys Get Your Password
Passwords are essential to your cybersafety. You know it, but if you’re like the rest of the digital society, you probably have dozens of passwords to remember. It’s a lot. So, you might take shortcuts. Taking advantage of your laissez-faire attitude is one way bad guys access your passwords. [Read more…]
Facebook is for Sharing, Not Storing | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
Facebook is for Sharing, Not Storing
When was the last time you held an actual photo album or actual prints of photographs in your hands? Maybe you look back at older photographs only when Facebook’s TimeHop app reminds you of a pic from five years ago. If so, you may be risking your visual history. [Read more…]
Does Mesh Wi-Fi Make Sense in Your Home? | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
Does Mesh Wi-Fi Make Sense in Your Home?
Wi-Fi is a top contender for a technology most of us rely upon. After all, Wi-Fi often provides our wireless high-speed internet and network connections. Without Wi-Fi we’d be stuck watching another reality TV show on a cable-connected device. We couldn’t work from wherever we wanted in our homes. Gulp, the horror! [Read more…]
Why You Need Professional Virus Removal | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
Why You Need Professional Virus Removal
“Your computer has a virus.” Such a dreadful five words! We don’t want to come down with a human virus; we’ll feel awful and miss work. But when a virus hits our computer, we could lose valuable information or be vulnerable to attack. Chicken Noodle soup just won’t cut it. [Read more…]
5 Common Computer Myths Debunked | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
5 Common Computer Myths Debunked
Common urban myths would have us believe alligators live in sewers or people put razor blades in kids’ candy. Common misconceptions about computers are just as persistent. Here are several IT myths debunked for your benefit: [Read more…]
Why Computer Repair Is Best Left to Experts – Y-Not Tech Services | Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
Why Computer Repair Is Best Left to Experts
Many of us have one solution to try when something goes wrong with our computers: turn it off and back on again. When that doesn’t work, we panic: “How am I supposed to do anything?” People often turn to a friend or family member for help at this point. But computer repair is better left to experts. [Read more…]
Quickly Become A Google Fu Master… Here’s How | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
Quickly Become A Google Fu Master… Here’s How
There’s one thing all teens can do better than adults – and it’s not Snapchat. They’ve become experts at quickly locating information on the internet.
That’s Google Fu, the ability to use search engines to whip up answers and research faster than a contestant on a radio quiz. [Read more…]
How To Spot A Tech Scam Before You Get Stung | Y-Not Tech Services – Lethbridge, AB Computer Repair
How To Spot A Tech Scam Before You Get Stung
If your computer had a virus, you’d want to know about it ASAP, right?
Before your important files become corrupted, you lose your photos and your digital life is essentially ruined. Even thinking about it is terrifying.
Tech scammers know we’d be lost without our computers, and that we don’t always know what’s going on behind the screen – which is why they’ve been able to swindle millions of dollars from ordinary people across the world. [Read more…]
