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…

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.By PICS ITech

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 …

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 wha…

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…

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 wit…

n the Microsoft Office suite of applications Excel is by far one of the most versatile of the bunch.Aside from just handling our day to day number crunching it is one of those programs we oftenjump in and out of for creating and viewing reports, calculating figures, and sometimes even justmanaging that office phone list.In this weeks ITech Insights…

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 applicati…

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…

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 …

Microsoft word, excel, and powerpoint have all become a regular part of our day to day lives. But there is one more program in Microsofts suite of office applications that is often ignored and is by far one of the easiest to use and most useful of the bunch and in this weeks ITech Insights I’ll tell you all about it. Show Notes:…

More and more people are now telecommuting from home, in fact entire companies are now built around the concept of a virtual workforce. Even if your company isn't leaning in the direction of stay at home employees, the chances are that you still face some of the interesting challenges that a mobile workforce creates. In this week's ITech Insights, …

If you've recently made the move to Windows 7, or have been using windows 7 for a while, it has no doubt been apparent just how beautiful and well thought out this latest version of windows is. But there are some great little hidden features which you may not be aware of, that can really make a difference in your day to day usage. In this weeks Ite…

More and more we are putting our personal information into our computers, smartphones, and onto the web. Because of this fact we all know that it's important to have a good solid password but the problem is just how do you come up with one that is both secure and easy to remember? In this weeks ITech Insights I'm sharing an easy way to come-up with…

Most of us live and die by our email, calendars and address book or in other words what's stored in our outlook. Over time your Microsoft Outlook mailbox grows as items are created in the same way that papers pile up on your desk. In the paper-based world, you can occasionally shuffle through your documents and store those that are important but th…