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13 Blue Light Glasses That Will Save Your Eyes From Hours of Screen Time

In 2020, most people are spending an enormous chunk of their days staring at screens. Since we’re now always on your laptop or glued to our phones, for work, working out, and socializing, all that light exposure can’t be good for our eyes. Enter blue light glasses. They’re the kind of thing you didn’t know you needed, but once you have them, they’re never coming off. READ MORE

May 22

Productivity

8 Tricks for Keeping a Neat Desk

Ask any highly organized person what they need to get work done, and they’ll invariably say, “I need a tidy space.” Keeping your physical work space neat is important to helping us focus and work productively. Clutter can be very distracting. Our environment greatly influences our behavior, mood, and state of mind, so if you want to feel ready to tackle the day, you need to keep your desk area organized. READ MORE

May 15

Office 365 Productivity

How to Use Microsoft Teams More Productively

Microsoft Teams can be a critical tool for working from home. How well it works for you, however, depends on how many of the key features you know about and use, as well as how many tricks you know about for navigating this enormous tool and keeping it organized. READ MORE

Gadgets

The 16 Coolest Gadgets of 2020 Will Make Your Life 10 Times Easier and Happier

In 2020, we’re looking to streamline our lives. Whether you need more time in your day or to keep things all in one place, gadgets are being designed to make everyone’s day better. From the kitchen to your closet, there’s tons of inventions that will leave you sighing with relief. READ MORE

Health

The 4 Best (and Free!) Apps For Limiting Your Screen Time and Staying Present

If you’ve ever searched for an app to limit your screen time, you’ve probably noticed that most of the market is geared toward parental controls. But more and more, adults are looking for ways to spend less time on their phones, even attempting full-on digital detoxes. And while Android users have Google’s Digital Wellbeing tool and iPhone users have Apple’s Screen Time setting, we’re so obsessed with our phones that putting these simple app limits in place isn’t always enough to truly unplug. Using your phone less might seem like an impossibly hard task, but once you experience the benefits that come from putting down your phone and being present, it’ll all be worth it. These are the four best apps to help limit your screen time — and they’re free! READ MORE

Oct 30

Legacy Hardware Printing

How legacy print technology may be holding your organization back

Many offices today still rely on legacy print technology. These devices may seem innocuous, but they actually pose serious problems to businesses that aspire to be productive, efficient, and secure—which is all of them, presumably. READ MORE

Oct 26

Education Productivity

How to tackle the most challenging areas of IT in education

Colleges and universities have a challenging road ahead regarding digital transformation. IT in education must keep pace with the latest trends in technology, ensure smooth campus operations as demands for bandwidth and computing resources increase, and somehow squeeze all of their pressing strategic priorities out of a lean budget. Here are a few areas education IT professionals should assess when looking to secure and streamline tech at their institutions. READ MORE

Sep 17

Cybersecurity Dark Web

A short guide to mitigating the risk of the dark web

The dark web is a nefarious place, where criminals lurk and communicate, buy, sell, plot, and plunder. The clue, of course, is in the name. Speaking to NBC, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Mark Knoll referred to it as “like your new drug dealer on the corner in the virtual world.” READ MORE

Tech Tips/Hacks

17 Tech Hacks That’ll Make You Feel Like a Boss

No one can resist the power of a game-changing secret, especially when it comes to the gadgets and technologies we use on the daily. If you want to know how to keep earphones from getting tangled or what to do with your favorite square Instagram prints, there’s a hack for that, and we’ve rounded them all up. Your tech life’s about to get a whole lot easier. After geeking out to these gadget tricks, check out 33 more game-changing, brilliant hacks. READ MORE

Aug 20

Policies Security

Why aren’t your employees following your office security policy?

The catastrophic consequences of cybersecurity breaches are no secret. In the past two years, cybercriminals nearly derailed Verizon’s multibillion dollar acquisition of Yahoo!, meddled in the US election, and leveraged a leaked NSA tool to infect more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries in the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack. READ MORE

Author: Jessa Erickson

13 Blue Light Glasses That Will Save Your Eyes From Hours of Screen Time

8 Tricks for Keeping a Neat Desk

How to Use Microsoft Teams More Productively

The 16 Coolest Gadgets of 2020 Will Make Your Life 10 Times Easier and Happier

The 4 Best (and Free!) Apps For Limiting Your Screen Time and Staying Present

How legacy print technology may be holding your organization back

How to tackle the most challenging areas of IT in education

A short guide to mitigating the risk of the dark web

17 Tech Hacks That’ll Make You Feel Like a Boss

Why aren’t your employees following your office security policy?

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