This Weeks Free Software Pick If you’re a coder, you’ve likely heard of Visual Studio Code. We use it here at Bowes IT to write the Powershell scripts we use to manage computers with our Remote Monitoring and Management system and it meets our needs...
This Weeks Free Software Pick If you’re going to embed audio in your PowerPoint Presentations, you’ll want to do it right. Audacity is super powerful audio mastering software. As of April 19, 2021, it is the most popular download from FossHub, with nearly...
This Weeks Free Software Pick A great way to know if a password has been compromised is to check if your email has been involved in data breach. Hackers break into websites and steal the user names — often your email address — and passwords you use to log...
Fire in the Office – Yikes! Get it Now! Imagine a call in the middle of the night from the police – your business is on fire, literally! Fortunately it is the middle of the night and no one is at the office but what about all of your files, your furniture,...
This Weeks Free Software Pick Do you need to be able to easily create PDFs but don’t need all of the bells and whistles that come with Adobe Acrobat? Collect digital signatures, merge and rearrange, secure your PDFs, use on the network, and more with PDF...
This Weeks Free Software Pick Lotus 123 was one of the first spreadsheet programs for PC and was arguably the driving force in businesses adopting computers. Digital spreadsheets were complete game-changers. Microsoft was late to the table with Excel (in typical...
In response to the increasing Covid 19 infection rate in Ontario and particularly in Niagara, we will be limiting onsite visits to only business-critical IT issues. Having always been a work-from-home business, we’ve invested a great deal of time and money into...
This Weeks Free Software Pick Avoiding malware in the first place is by far the best defence but, if you do get malware, you’ll need help cleaning it up. Here’s the thing, if you have malware, your antivirus didn’t do its job. Running a virus scan...
This Weeks Free Software Pick If your laptop is lost or stolen, it’s very easy for someone to get your data, even if your login is password protected. How? Simply pull the hard drive out, plug it into another computer and voila, access to your data. The answer?...