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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses

The Pros and Cons of Zero-Trust

The Pros and Cons of Zero-Trust

With countless threats out there waiting for IT professionals to slip up, it’s no wonder that many of these professionals are opting into what is called a zero-trust policy for their security standards. What exactly is a zero-trust policy, and more importantly, how is it so effective at mitigating security problems in organizational computing? 

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The Concept of a Four-Day Workweek

The Concept of a Four-Day Workweek

The idea of a four-day workweek has been popular for a while now, to the point where it is actively being tested in practical settings. Below is a discussion on how successful this approach has been (spoiler alert: it’s been quite successful indeed).

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Start Planning Your 2023 IT Budget Now

Start Planning Your 2023 IT Budget Now

Somehow, it’s December. Can you believe it? 

2023 is almost upon us, and hopefully by now you’ve started to put some thought into how your business will maneuver through the next 12 months. It’s important to establish an IT plan and budget, so that your technology can actually be a value center as opposed to an expense.

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How Database Management Systems Helps Your Business

How Database Management Systems Helps Your Business

For the average business, the database plays a large role. How large of a role? Your business won’t function the way you want it to function without it. In order to manage your databases correctly, you need a solid database management system (DBMS). Listed below is a discussion about the DBMS and how it works to assist your business computing.

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Managed IT Services can Help Project Management

Managed IT Services can Help Project Management

Project management can be an exceptionally tricky part of implementing any new solution or service for your organization. While technology can help with this process, you’ll want to understand how its implementation helps in the grand scheme of things. Below we explain how value-based managed IT services can help you ensure projects are completed with minimal downtime and technology hiccups.

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How to Save Some Time Using Google Chrome

How to Save Some Time Using Google Chrome

If you want to optimize productivity, then you’ll want to take a look at the startup page for your Google Chrome web browser. If you change this setting, you can shave off countless minutes every week while you fumble around trying to find your favorite or most frequently visited page.

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The Levels of IT Investment Your Business Can Make

The Levels of IT Investment Your Business Can Make

When you buy into any idea, you must ask yourself, “how much money am I willing to spend?” The same goes for your business’ IT. Naturally, your business isn’t a public television telethon, but we’re going to pretend it is by going through the levels of investment you can make and how it can impact your business. 

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Why the Price of Data Privacy is Worth It

Why the Price of Data Privacy is Worth It

We aren’t going to pretend that the investments required to preserve your business’ data security are small ones. Especially at first glance, you may very well start to question if such an investment is truly necessary.

The fact of the matter is that, compared to the costs that a breach of privacy will incur, the investment you put into your security measures will suddenly seem like a real bargain.

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How to Better Communicate With Your Team

How to Better Communicate With Your Team

Have you ever gotten a message that just makes your heart sink in your chest? Chances are good that your team members feel that way whenever you send them a particular message, especially during certain times. Below we consider why this may be the case, and how you can better manage your communications to more effectively communicate with your team.

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New Technologies That Your Organization Could Soon Be Using

New Technologies That Your Organization Could Soon Be Using

Every piece of technology we regularly use these days was once earth-shakingly innovative, regardless of how mundane and common it seems now. Think about it: people once had endless questions about the Internet, about computers…even about electricity. Listed below are some modern innovations that we have many questions about now, but may someday be just as much of a given as the other tools we so commonly use today.

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A 'Truth is Stranger than Fiction' Apple Story

A 'Truth is Stranger than Fiction' Apple Story

Even though today's workplace tends to be PC-centric, Apple has had a major impact on technology and computing. It’s undeniable that Apple is pretty consistent with producing sleek, high-end hardware and efficient operating systems. Apple’s former CEO, Steve Jobs, was known to be a visionary and a perfectionist. That’s what makes this story even more bizarre.

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Are You Sharing Your Employees with Another Company?

Are You Sharing Your Employees with Another Company?

How many of your employees do you think have a second job? This isn’t a particularly outlandish concept, but one thing that has come about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its surge of remote work is that some employees hold two jobs at the same time, and not in the way that you might expect.

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How to Translate an Email within Gmail

How to Translate an Email within Gmail

How often do you receive emails from someone written in another language? We bet the answer is “not usually,” but you never know when being able to translate an email might come in handy, especially if you ever do business overseas. Listed below are some facts about the built-in translation functionality that comes with Gmail.

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Why IT Costs are Rising

Why IT Costs are Rising

No matter how big your company is, you’ll always have technology expenses. It’s just a fact of the current workplace, and your profits will be inexorably tied to how well your IT works for you. Moreover, the more IT costs rise, the more impact small and medium-sized businesses will feel from them. We wanted to address this problem and how you can limit the frustrations that stem from seemingly uncontrollable technology costs.

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Microsoft Office Merging into Microsoft 365

Microsoft Office Merging into Microsoft 365

In what seems to be the final stage of a plan that Microsoft has been moving towards for years, Microsoft Office will apparently be phased fully into the Microsoft 365 brand. Consider what we know so far about this change.

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Helpful Google Chrome Shortcuts

Helpful Google Chrome Shortcuts

When working in your browser, we know how efficiency is imperative. Like many other pieces of software the developers at Google have baked some keyboard shortcuts to make getting around their browser easier for the average user. Listed below is a look at some of the most useful shortcuts. 

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The Legend of the Tell-Tale Hard Drive

The Legend of the Tell-Tale Hard Drive

If Edgar Allan Poe worked in an office, here’s what one of his works would sound like:

True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I have been and am, but why will you say that I am mad? The office had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was my sense of hearing. I heard all things in heaven and on earth and many things in…the other place. So, how then am I mad, especially when I can so healthily and calmly tell you this story?

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Technology Can Help You Reinvent Your Inventory Controls

Technology Can Help You Reinvent Your Inventory Controls

Businesses that sell goods have always used inventory management, whether using pen and paper or a spreadsheet. In the information age, inventory management is more complex and with a lot of businesses operating on the Internet, it is more important to manage well. This month, we will discuss what modern inventory management entails and how technology can provide the efficiency your business needs to be successful.

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Some Cybersecurity Statistics to Inform Your Business

Some Cybersecurity Statistics to Inform Your Business

When it comes to your organization's cybersecurity, it can be tempting to operate under the assumption that the few cybersecurity events you hear about on the news are all that happen. Alas, this is far from actual fact. Listed below are some of the statistics that might change your impressions, especially if you hold the aforementioned assumption.

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When You Consider All Avenues of Data Loss, Backup Becomes Essential

When You Consider All Avenues of Data Loss, Backup Becomes Essential

“It won’t happen to me.” This is a common excuse amongst business owners who refuse to equip their network with a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution. They may feel like they’re careful enough to avoid a major data loss-causing disaster. Yet, the inconvenient fact remains that a disaster can happen to any business, no matter how prepared they may be.

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