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January 15, 2017
Video Update: Password Changes for Cloud Logons
It’s like changing the batteries in your smoke detector; you just have to do it! All Syscon clients in our Multi-tenant Hosting, Private Server Hosting, or Email Hosting will have to choose a new password in 2017. The week of January 23rd, we are requiring a new password when you log in. Get ready and figure […]
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January 07, 2017
Battery Backup Units – Why You Need Them!
One of the easiest ways to protect your investment in computer equipment is to be sure to have an Uninterruptible Power Supply between the computer and the outlet; UPS for short. You can purchase a simple power strip at the local store, all the way up to sophisticated UPS devices that can be programmed to […]
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January 04, 2017
Sage 100 Contractor – W-2’s and 1099’s: What Forms Do I Need to Buy?
Every year we get questions about what forms to use when printing year-end payroll W-2’s, W-3, 1099’s, and the 1096 from Sage 100 Contractor – here you go! You’ll need the four-part perforated blank forms for the W-2 and 1099 print outs. When you print, there will be four (4) boxes on one piece of […]
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December 22, 2016
Sage 100 Contractor – 2017 Federal Tax Tables, version 19.8, and 20.4
Each year the Federal payroll tax table updates are issued, usually in early January. For all the software companies, this means providing a software update with the new tables, and this year is no different. Sage has announced that these tables will be available for version 19 users (19.8), and version 20 users (20.4). Do […]
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December 18, 2016
Retail Backup Solutions in the Cloud – Do You Know How Long It Will Take To Get Your Data?
There are some great retail cloud backup solutions, but not all are appropriate for a business, even a small business. If you had to restore critical data from one of those cloud solutions, how long would it take to download those files (once you had a machine ready to download them to)? We had a […]
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December 11, 2016
Stories from Small Businesses that were Attacked
Efficient Escrow of California was forced to close its doors and lay off its entire staff when cybercriminals nabbed $1.5 million from its bank account. The thieves gained access to the escrow company’s bank data using a form of “Trojan horse” malware. Once the hackers broke in, they wired $432,215 from the firm’s bank to […]
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December 02, 2016
Social Media – A Positive Outcome with Yelp!
You may have read our recent article on the dark side of media (Sept 30th blog post); we have an encouraging story to share with you! I received an email from Yelp that we had a new review; very exciting. I logged on and found a terrible review saying we had not finished a project, […]
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December 01, 2016
General Stanley McChrystal Presentation
Wow! Great presentation in Nashville by General Stanley McChrystal, Retired. His comments and stories were thought provoking and very appropriate to our businesses. I look forward to reading his new book Team of Teams (which I have a copy of!). Thank you General, and thanks to all the Vets who have defended our country so we […]
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November 23, 2016
Progress Billing: What are Those Radials for Anyway?
I was working with some office staff and their list of questions. When you’re in the Progress Billing screen (3-7), and you click the calculator, there are two choices with radials in front of them. What’s the difference and when to use which one? The first one says ‘Calculate the Current column based on the […]
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November 22, 2016
Cabling – New, Faster Protocol for EXISTING Cat 5e, Cat 6
The cabling in your walls is ‘out of sight, out of mind,’ but greatly impacts the speed of information traveling over your network – data, internet, wireless traffic. You might be familiar with Cat 5, Cat 5e, and Cat 6 cable sizes – did you know there are Cat 6a, and 7? How to keep […]
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