TECH JOMO
What would it feel like to experience JOMO in your work life? RealTime could help you let go of the reigns a little bit. Putting your tech in the hands of professionals and basking in JOMO will give you more joy and peace-of-mind than micromanaging yourself to death at work.
TECH JOMO
Blogger Anil Dash first coined the phrase JOMO (joy of missing out) in a popular blog post nearly seven years ago. To explain it another way, JOMO is the opposite of FOMO (fear of missing out). It’s unplugging from emails, texts, social networks, etc. in an effort to embrace solitude.
So what would it feel like to experience JOMO in your work life? RealTime could help you let go of the reigns a little bit. Putting your tech in the hands of professionals and basking in JOMO will give you more joy and peace-of-mind than micromanaging yourself to death at work.
Here’s what you should start missing out on…
REPLACING HARDWARE
RealTime provides a JOMO-inducing smile with our Life Cycle Management program. As your systems age, we take the responsibility to replace them. We schedule the replacement and upgrades for your technical equipment including computers, servers, firewalls and switches.
SOFTWARE UPGRADES
What about software? Do you have FOMO that you won’t have the latest update? Well, rest assured that RealTime automatically maintains and updates all your software systems so you don’t have to do it.
BACKUPS
We have a plan in place to automatically backup all your systems and we regularly test these backups. So you can let go of the FOMO on your work and documents if your systems unexpectedly go down. Your work is not lost; it is backed up.
DOWNTIME
If you’re worried about not being able to work because your systems have gone down, with RealTime on your side, you’ll experience JOMO. By providing all the features we’ve mentioned above, RealTime ensures that your downtime is minimal.
Embrace the solitude of knowing that all your technology is working optimally. Give RealTime a call and let us put some JOMO back into your work life.
(334) 678-1417
The Art of Decluttering your IT
If you live on planet Earth, then you’ve heard of Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, that basically transforms lives through the art of decluttering. Her radical approach has made her a best-selling author and awarded her a Netflix series where you can literally watch people get emotional over the clutter in their homes.
Along that same train of thought, we should organize and transform our tech lives. Here are our life changing suggestions to transform your tech life one cluttered item at a time.
Four easy steps to declutter your tech gadGets and enter the world of technology nirvana.
If you live on planet Earth, then you’ve heard of Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, that basically transforms lives through the art of decluttering. Her radical approach has made her a best-selling author and awarded her a Netflix series where you can literally watch people get emotional over the clutter in their homes.
Along that same train of thought, we should organize and transform our tech lives. Here are our life changing suggestions to transform your tech life one cluttered item at a time.
#1 FORGOTTEN DOWNLOADS CAUSE A LOT OF CRUFT
Cruft is bad. Terrible. It piles up and uses up a huge amount of storage and can eventually lead to your machine slowing down. (Kind of like those 15 pairs of blue jeans you can’t squeeze into any longer that are taking up drawer space.) Get rid of the duplicates.
Software cruft are basically “digital dust bunnies.” You know, those duplicate files, forgotten downloads, abandoned files from apps you deleted, and so on. They’re slowing you down big time. Getting the cruft out may sound daunting, but it is actually easy to do. Apple, Microsoft and Google have all joined the anti-cruft global crusade and have added cruft-removal tools to their operating systems. You just need to remind yourself to use them. Read more on How to Clean Out the Cruft here.
#2 OUT-OF-DATE SOFTWARE COULD BE HARMFUL TO YOUR DIGITAL HEALTH
There’s a reason that Apple, Microsoft and Google offer free updates to their phones and computer operating systems. Each update offers more security, less bugginess and makes you love your device more. Let’s face it – they want you to love their product so you will continue to purchase from them in the future.
Make sure that you update software whenever it is available to ensure that your device/system is running the safest and most efficient that it can. These updates usually help protect your devices with current ways to protect you from hackers and malware.
#3 FALL IN LOVE WITH AUTOMATED BACKUP
If you’re like the masses, only 6 percent of us have actually set up an automatic, continuous backup system. Because, believe it or not, if you use it long enough your hard drive will die one day. Even the manufacturer admits this in the fine print of the manual. (M.T.B.F “mean time between failures”…look it up).
There are some online solutions that will automate backups, these are great because they are offsite. Whether it’s fire, flood, burglars…toddlers’ juice…your data is safe and not your concern until you really, really need to be concerned.
#4 SAVE YOUR PHONE’S PHOTOS
We all have trigger finger. We snap photos at soccer games, weddings, selfies (eh-um) and work to capture the sweetest moments on our phones. But what happens if we lose our phones or they get dropped in a cup of coffee? What happens to all of those moments?
Ensuring you have a cloud-based backup for phones is the rule. You have options like Dropbox, Flickr, Apple’s iCloud and other companies that can back up your phone’s photos and videos, wirelessly and automatically. Or, look into other options like Google Photos and Amazon Photos, they can back up your complete photo collection for free.
The short and long of this story is that you need to clean up your technology like you clean and organize your home. Automate backups and updates, clean out the cruft and live in bliss knowing that you are automatically safe and secure on all tech avenues.
How to Clean Out the Cruft
Software cruft are basically “digital dust bunnies.” You know, those duplicate files, forgotten downloads, abandoned files from apps you deleted, and so on. They’re slowing you down big time. Getting the cruft out may sound daunting, but it is actually easy to do. Apple, Microsoft and Google have all joined the anti-cruft global crusade and have added cruft-removal tools to their operating systems. You just need to remind yourself to use them.
Software cruft are basically “digital dust bunnies.” You know, those duplicate files, forgotten downloads, abandoned files from apps you deleted, and so on. They’re slowing you down big time. Getting the cruft out may sound daunting, but it is actually easy to do. Apple, Microsoft and Google have all joined the anti-cruft global crusade and have added cruft-removal tools to their operating systems. You just need to remind yourself to use them.
Windows 10: From the Start menu, open Settings, System and then Storage. If you click “Free up space now,” Windows displays a list of cruft categories that it’s safe to delete, and shows how many gigabytes you’ll reclaim.
Here, you can also turn on Storage Sense, which prevents cruft from accumulating in the first place. (Click “Change how we free up space automatically” to adjust the frequency of the deletions.)
Windows 10 offers a simple way to reclaim disk space from orphaned files.
Mac: Apple’s cruft cruncher can reclaim huge swaths of space. (It’s available on macOS High Sierra and later.) To see it, from the Apple menu, choose About This Mac; click Storage; and then Manage.
Here, you’ll see options like “Automatically remove watched iTunes movies and TV shows” and “Download only recent attachments” (in the Mail app). Click Review Files to see a sortable list of everything on your drive, which makes it easy to spot duplicates, or your biggest and oldest files, and delete them.
The Mac, too, suggests ways to pinpoint abandoned and gigantic files for deletion.
Android: Beginning with the Oreo version of Android, Google has made it fantastically easy to clean out junk files from your phone: Tap Settings, Storage & Memory, and then “Free Up Space.” The resulting list includes downloaded files, photos and videos that you’ve already backed up, and apps you haven’t used in some time. You can delete them by category or individually.
When your Android phone is feeling stuffed, open Settings to lighten its load.
iOS: On the iPhone or iPad, tap Settings, General, and then iPhone Storage. You’re now facing iOS’s cruft-removal options: Offload Unused Apps, Review iTunes Videos (enormous TV and movie files), plus an app-by-app listing of space gobblers. Music, Photos, Podcasts and TV usually top the list.
To delete the individual songs, videos, photos and other files that are eating up your space, you still have to open the corresponding app. But at least now you know where to begin.
The iPhone and iPad make it easy to see which big and underused apps are junking up your storage.
*Information courtesy of https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/smarter-living/how-to-do-a-data-cleanse.html
Breakup with your password...it's cheating on you.
You have to face facts that your password is easy! Literally. And you have no idea who has been running around with your password over the last year and a half. Take this opportunity to make a change - now that you know the truth - and secure yourself a much better password. And don’t worry about the old password; it has cheated (at least) once, and it will cheat again.
You love your password.
You use it on every platform you can imagine: Your email, online banking and even Facebook! You are so happy every time you think about your password, you can never imagine changing it.
But what you don’t realize is, while you are caught up in those tingly feelings of love, and that false sense of security that you can always rely on your password to work, your password has been cheating on you.
You have to face facts that your password is easy! Literally. And you have no idea who has been running around with your password over the last year and a half. Take this opportunity to make a change - now that you know the truth - and secure yourself a much better password. And don’t worry about the old password; it has cheated once, and it will cheat again. (You’ve got 99 problems, but your password’s not one of them).
How to break up and move on to something better:
Breakups are tough, but I guarantee you that once you see there are better passwords out there (that are tough and have your best interest at heart) you will get over the breakup quickly.
It’s Complicated.
A good password is one that is complex and something you can remember. Finding that sweet spot can be hard sometimes, but I promise it’s necessary. Try using a passphrase. A passphrase is a combination of words used to create a sentence that generates complex, long passwords that are easy to memorize.
For example: Che@t=r (i.e. Cheater…see how easy?)It’s not for life.
Don’t grow too attached to your new passwords – you’ll be breaking up frequently. So, how often should you change your password? We recommend at least every six months, if not more. Mix it up, don’t give your password time to cheat on you again.
Adopt long passphrases.
Size does matter. We recommend you use at least 16 characters for your password. Once you hit the 12 – 16 range, you make it WAY harder for cyber criminals to use brute force or guess your password.
For example: myV@lentin3 does little for protection compared to a passphrase like hewill%cheaton*yout00.Don’t ever take that password back.
If your password cheated on you once, don’t give it another chance to do it to you again! A new, long passphrase is exactly what you need! Meaning, do not reuse old passwords because they’re comfortable. There’s a reason they’re in your past. Leave them there.
Make online security a lifetime love affair to protect yourself. You are worth it!
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