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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 Insights we're going to tell you all about it, some steps you can take to avoid getting it, and most importantly some ways to protect all that stuff in your digital life that you'd be lost without.  

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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.

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 little known tool that was introduced in windows 7 called the "Problem Steps Recorder" or PSR

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 what you're missing by not giving it a tap.

For Full list of Windows Button shortcuts checkout: http://pics.com/p/kq64fg

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 of a chore.  

One of excel's biggest strengths is in helping you to quickly organize and filter out even tremendously large amounts of data and in this ITech Insight We'll show you how to do it.

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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 with one of the most common frustrations that this application can present.