Turning on multi-factor authentication is the highest-value security change most small businesses can make in an afternoon. It is also the one where the details matter, because not all second …
Your Backup Probably Isn’t a Backup
Ask a small business owner whether they have backups and the answer is almost always yes. Ask what happens if a file is deleted by mistake and discovered three weeks …
How to Spot a Phishing Email in 2026
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which makes it a good moment to talk about the single most common way small businesses get compromised. It is not sophisticated hacking. It is …
Passkeys: The Beginning of the End for Passwords
For thirty years the advice about passwords has been getting worse: make them longer, make them weirder, change them constantly, never reuse one. The result is that most people now …
Launch Any Windows App With a Keyboard Shortcut
Keyboard shortcuts are one of the fastest ways to speed up your workday. The more you can do without reaching for the mouse, the quicker everything gets done. Most people …
Is Your Website Slow? The Problem Might Be Under the Hood
When a website is slow, most owners assume they need a more expensive hosting plan, a caching plugin, or a full redesign. Sometimes that is true. But this year we …
Stop Contact Form Spam Without Making Your Customers Solve Puzzles
If you have a contact form on your website, you have probably noticed the junk that comes through it: crypto schemes, fake SEO offers, messages in languages you do not …
Why Your Business Email Keeps Landing in Spam (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in Plain English)
Have you ever sent an important email to a customer and later found out it went straight to their spam folder? You are not alone. Over the past year we …
Moving Your Email To A New Mailbox
Since Outlook for Android doesn’t offer text formatting for Microsoft mail accounts, what other email apps do? Microsoft’s Outlook app for Android puts its focus more on keeping up with …
5 Advanced Excel Pivot Table Techniques
Keep reading for a walkthrough of how to use each of these five features in the written tutorial below, covering: Slicers, Timelines, Tabular View, Calculated Fields, and Recommended Pivot Tables. …