ITech Insights

For us mere mortals a virus is one of the most frustrating and debilitating things that can happen to our computers, while for most IT professionals they're nothing more than just a minor annoyance. In the past few weeks however a new threat has come to light that has even the most seasoned of IT pro's quaking in their boots and in this weeks ITech Insights we're going to tell you all about it, some steps you can take to avoid getting it, and most importantly some ways to protect all that stuff in your digital life that you'd be lost without.

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Related Articles about Cryptolocker --

http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-309A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker

http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/10/cryptolocker-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know/

Home Back-Up Solutions:

Microsoft Shadow Copy - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/backup-and-restore

Shadow Protect - www.StorageCraft.com

Carbonite - www.carbonite.com

Mozy - www.Mozy.com

Multi-Tasking is something we're all doing more and more and having the right tool to do this affectively is more important than ever. In this weeks ITech Insights we're sharing one of our favorite ways to get more done, more efficiently.

Lately in the news we have heard a lot about Eyewitnesses and how often they are inaccurate. Eyewitness misidentification plays a role in nearly 75% of the convictions overturned through DNA testing. In supporting our clients we often find that our "eyewitnesses" can sometimes get it wrong too.

In this weeks ITech Insights we are going to look at a little known tool that was introduced in windows 7 called the "Problem Steps Recorder" or PSR

From the time that we were kids it was drilled into us "if you don't know what a button does, don't push it". The standard computer keyboard has 104 buttons, several of which we never touch because... well.. we don't know what they do.

In this weeks ITech Insights I'm telling you about one of these rarely used buttons and letting you in on just what you're missing by not giving it a tap.

For Full list of Windows Button shortcuts checkout: http://pics.com/p/kq64fg

With it's amazing versatility Microsoft excel often ends up being the goto program for running reports and managing data.

In this our third and final part in our three part series on excel tips and tricks we're helping to quell the problem where sometimes our spreadsheets grow so large that finding exactly what we want, when we want it can be a bit of a chore.

One of excel's biggest strengths is in helping you to quickly organize and filter out even tremendously large amounts of data and in this ITech Insight We'll show you how to do it.

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Microsoft Excel is one of those applications which gets used for so many various tasks that it's hard to overstate just how important learning some of it's little tricks can be for improving your efficiency of this amazing application.

In this our second part of a 3 part series on Microsoft excel we are sharing a little known secret for dealing with one of the most common frustrations that this application can present.

One of the most used applications in any business is Microsoft Outlook. It is often the first application we start up in the morning, and the last one we close out at the end of our day.

In this weeks ITech Insights we're sharing a few tips and tricks to outlook that, just maybe, you don't know about, that can really help you use this core application more efficiently.

With as many different websites, web services, and online accounts that we use on a day to day basis, it's no wonder that one of the most common calls we get in the IT field is... ummm I've forgotten my password. In this weeks ITech Insights I am sharing two great tools for helping you manage all of those pesky passwords and making lost passwords a thing of the past.

Show Notes:www.PICS-ITech/Insightswww.lastpass.comwww.roboform.com

Whether you like it or not we are living in a paperless world. With all of the advantages that being paperless brings there are some disadvantages. Being paperless means more documents, more spreadsheets, more information in general that we need to organize in some way or another. In this weeks ITech Insight, I'm sharing a way to help you organize this information in a way that you can quickly and easily find what you want, when you want it with just a few clicks of the mouse.

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