Are You Following the 20-20-20 Rule?

Are You Following the 20-20-20 Rule?

Take Eye Breaks! Throughout the day, give your eyes a break by forcing them to focus on something other than on your computer screen.  Repetitive stress injury (RSI) and eye strain are common ailments ...
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September 6, 2013Computer Basics, How-Tosergonomics, eye-strain, health

View Recent Files and Websites

Looking for a document you know you just worked on this week?  Or maybe you found a really great website a few days ago but never saved it as your favorite?   Your computer and ...
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August 13, 2013Computer Basics, How-Tosfavorites, how-tos, searching, windows

Don’t Just Walk Away

Any time you walk away from your computer and don’t lock it or log off, you’re giving others access to use your computer as you. They could send email from your account, tamper with ...
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July 9, 2013Computer Basics, How-Toshow-tos, security, windows

File Locked For Editing?

Do you constantly get this message even when you KNOW neither you nor anyone else has the file open?  This is common problem with Windows 7 and many times it has to do with ...
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June 20, 2013Computer Basics, How-Toshow-tos, windows7

Internet Usage At Work

Our business needs for accessing the Internet increase substantially every year.  We have WebEx for video conferencing, finance users on an ACCPAC server on campus, Kronos and WorkDay for HR needs, teams/groups use cloud ...
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May 21, 2013Computer Basics, How-Tos, IT News, IT Resourcesgoogle-drive, internet, internet-radio, malware, viruses, wireless

80 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

For Microsoft Outlook Does your work involve a lot of e-mail checking and replying?  (I know mine does!) I just found this really great resource for Outlook keyboard shortcuts and I thought I would ...
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May 17, 2013Computer Basics, How-Tose-mail, outlook, shortcuts

Folder Favorites and Shortcuts!

Are you working on documents that need to be saved on a network drive?  Or in a subfolder of a subfolder of a subfolder?  Or are you working on a project or event where you need ...
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May 13, 2013Computer Basics, How-Tosfavorites, how-tos, shortcuts, windows7

Never Share Your NetID Password

s I go around from county to county and migrate computers to the Cornell Active Directory, the first thing you will notice after the switch is that you will log into your work computer ...
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April 26, 2013Computer Basics, How-Tos, IT News, IT Resourcesnetid, password, security

Lots of SPAM?

Anti-spam filtering programs have a never ending battle to stop spam and phishing e-mails from reaching our Inbox.  The spammers are constantly changing their tactics and the anti-spam vendors such as Sophos (PureMesssage) are ...
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April 2, 2013How-Tos, IT Newse-mail, outlook, security, spam

Windows 8, Office 2013 and Internet Explorer 10

To Upgrade or Not?..  I have been getting more and more questions about whether or not we should be upgrading our computers to the latest software (here in the office and at home), so I ...
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March 21, 2013Computer Basics, IT Newsinternet-explorer, office, web-browser, windows