Posts by Jessi Page
Tuesday Tip: Widget Wonders and Snap Surprises: Windows 11 Delights Await!
Windows 11 offers a sleek and modern interface, but did you know you can further customize it to suit your preferences? One fun trick is to personalize your desktop with widgets. Simply click on the Widgets icon on the taskbar to access news, weather updates, calendar events, and more at a glance! You can customize…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: The Splitwise App Makes Splitting Bills A Breeze
Do you struggle to split a bill at a restaurant when you’re with a group of friends? Have trouble dividing utility bills among roommates? Use Splitwise! Splitwise is a popular app designed to simplify the process of splitting bills and shared expenses. Splitwise lets you create an event, then add all the individual users…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Quickly Delete Your Gmail Emails
Have you gotten WAY behind deleting emails from your Gmail account? Would you like to delete more than the “allowed” 50 emails at a time? Here’s a way to easily delete hundreds of emails at one time: In the search bar type in a category (ex: “Facebook” or “Target”). Now click select all in the…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Use Water Eject if Your iPhone Gets Wet
Forget about rice! If you drop your iPhone in water, here’s a trick to help save your phone, and it works on AirPods too. Many iPhone owners can relate to the pain of dropping their phone in water or spilling liquid on it. The go-to thought is to submerge it in a bowl of rice…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Snooze Your Emails!
Have you ever received an email you know is important, but can’t devote time to at the moment? If you’d like to deal with it later, you can “snooze the email” which makes it disappear and then reappear at the top of your inbox at the date and time you choose. To do this, you’ll…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: What is a Wallet Tracker?
Have you ever heard of a wallet tracker? I hadn’t until I heard someone talking about it while trying to locate their wallet. A wallet tracker works by connecting to your phone through a companion app. You use the app to make your wallet finder ring or to check the last known location of your…
Read MoreA Deep Dive into Managed IT Services Meaning: What Businesses Need to Know
A Deep Dive into Managed IT Services Meaning: What Businesses Need to Know In an increasingly connected world, businesses confront a crucial challenge: maintaining effective, secure, and streamlined IT systems amidst ever-evolving technology. This task is far from simple. This is why the popularity of managed IT services is skyrocketing. According to a report by…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Facebook’s Concerning Lack of Privacy
Facebook has made clear it does not care about its end user’s privacy concerns, all while making claims that user privacy is important and respected by the company. Facebook also owns the messaging app WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a free app Facebook purchased in 2014 for 22 billion dollars. Facebook makes money by collecting data from…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Free Up Space on Your Laptop or PC
There are times when our computers start to run slowly as we run out of storage space. We think the solution is restarting the computer or deleting our files. However, we forget old applications or programs that not only take up space but also run in the “background” and cause the computer to slow. Luckily,…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Use Wheel of Names to Randomly Pick Names for Activities
In honor of going back to school this week, here is a great Tuesday tip for teachers. Instead of using popsicle sticks for random student selection, use a simple wheel of names from your computer. Many students are now learning from home so having a wheel of names makes it more convenient to pick…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: How to quickly move tabs without using your mouse
Did you know that you can automatically move tabs by simply using your keyboard? To do this you will hold down the windows button and use 1 of the 4 arrows. The left and right arrows make the tab move from left to right Window + ß makes the tab move to the left. Window…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Keeping Your Printer Safe at Home from Hackers
As the workplace continues to change in these new times, employees are still getting the opportunity to work from home more frequently. Some employees still require a printer to get the job done. As cyber security continues to be a mainstream topic, have you ever thought about keeping your printer safe as well? It is…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: How to Add Chrome Links to Home Screen on Android & iPhone
If you’re like me and have a few websites you visit frequently from your phone, but don’t want to add the app – there’s a different way around adding yet another app. From your Android phone, first launch your Chrome app, then navigate to the website you’d like to add to your home screen.…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: 4 Best Practices for Keeping your Information Safe
Keeping your apps up to date. This is an easy one to miss, and not everyone likes to update when its available for various reasons. Keep in mind the update can be focused on different factors with improving the application. Most importantly, the updates can pertain to security. When a vulnerability or bug is found…
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