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How business owners can track customer information via their merchant accounts

Posted on July 25, 2017

Did you know that when you offer credit card processing to your clients, your systems can do much more than just accept payments?

With Merchant Account Solutions options, you can collect customer information for later use, keep up with inventory from your store, and even keep up with employee’s schedules.

The amazing merchant services offered from the folks at MAS allow you to do a variety of tasks to make running your business easier than ever before.  [Read more…]

How to hide and password protect folders in Windows

Posted on July 10, 2017

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Important update: Chrome and Firefox have both started flagging the tool I recommend in this post as malware. I believe this to be a clear case of a false positive but I have removed the links just to be safe.

Original post continues below…  [Read more…]

Back up your hard drive a lot faster with an external SSD

Posted on July 9, 2017

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By now you probably know how important it is to create regular backups of the data that’s stored on your computer’s hard drive.

You also probably know that it can take a good long while to create each of those backups.

Luckily, there’s a simple and easy way to greatly speed up the backup process (and the restore process as well, should it ever be needed)…  [Read more…]

How to create a Desktop Shortcut for quickly launching the OnScreen Keyboard

Posted on June 16, 2017

Every now and then I receive messages asking me how to launch the OnScreen Keyboard on Windows machines that don’t have a touch screen.

There are several ways to activate the OnScreen Keyboard, but my favorite method is by simply clicking a desktop shortcut.

If you’d like to create a shortcut to the OnScreen Keyboard on your own computer, just follow the steps below:  [Read more…]

Q&A: Why can’t I make my screen brighter after upgrading my laptop to Windows 10?

Posted on May 27, 2017

Question from Lina W.:  A while back my laptop updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on its own. I just woke up one morning and there it was!

It turns out that I like Windows 10 ok, but now I can’t get the screen to brighten up much at all.

I have the brightness setting turned all the way to maximum and it still isn’t as bright at it was with Windows 7.

How can I get my laptop’s brightness control to work as it should?

Rick’s answer:  [Read more…]

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