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Straight answers on productivity, cybersecurity and SaaS for small and mid-market businesses — written by the engineer who answers the phone.
Windows Tips
Windows 11’s October Update Lands Tuesday. Five Changes Worth Two Minutes of Your Time.
The October 13 Windows 11 update brings PDF previews back to File Explorer, a fix for the Copilot key, and three more changes. What to turn on, what to leave alone, and one bug to know about.
Local SEO
Google Can Now Edit Your Business Profile If You Don’t Answer in 4 Days
Anyone can suggest a change to your Google Business Profile. Google now says you have 4 days to reject it before it may go live. Here is how to stay ahead of it.
Cybersecurity
That AI Ad Tool Wants to “Connect” to Your Google Account. Don’t Let It.
Fake ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude ad tools are stealing Google and Meta ad accounts, MFA codes included. The 10-second test that exposes them, and what to lock down this week.
Cybersecurity
Windows 11 24H2 Stops Getting Security Updates Next Tuesday. Is Your Office Ready?
Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro stop getting security updates on October 13, 2026. How to check your PCs, upgrade in one restart, and avoid this month’s buggy preview update.
Cybersecurity
It Came From Google. It Was Still a Trap.
A phishing email that Google really sent and really signed. How a DKIM replay attack works, the four tells that give it away, and the one habit that stops it.
Productivity
Managing Contacts and Calendars in Gmail
Labels, sharing and import habits that keep Google Contacts and Calendar usable once more than one person depends on them.
SaaS
Navigating the IT Cloud Landscape
Falling hardware costs are changing the cloud-versus-on-premise math for small and mid-market IT budgets. Here's how to weigh the decision properly.
Productivity
Customizing Email Signatures in Gmail
Building a professional Gmail signature is quick. Keeping it consistent across a whole team is the part most businesses skip.
Productivity
Setting Default Save Locations in Microsoft Office
A two-minute setting in Word, Excel and PowerPoint that stops your team from saving files in the wrong place by default.
SaaS
Understanding SaaS
The real benefits and real risks of Software as a Service — and how to tell when your business has outgrown the off-the-shelf version.
Cybersecurity
Why Employee Training Is Your Best Cybersecurity Investment
Most breaches start with a person, not a piece of malware. Here's what security awareness training needs to look like to actually change that.
Cybersecurity
Why Regular Software Updates Are Your Best Defense
Unpatched software is one of the most common ways small businesses get breached — and one of the most avoidable.
Cybersecurity
When Not to Use .htaccess: A DDoS Lesson From the Field
A first-hand account of fighting off a DDoS attack with a 10MB .htaccess file — and why that fix caused a bigger problem than the one it solved.
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