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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.

Understanding Your Wireless Router

Understanding Your Wireless Router

Today's workplace wouldn’t exist as it does without the creation of wireless Internet or Wi-Fi. Understanding how your wireless router works can be incredibly helpful for any business owner, and it can help you get even more out of your wireless connection. Listed below is some information about wireless routers that can help you use them more effectively.

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Your Business Need to Use a Surge Protector, Not a Power Strip

Your Business Need to Use a Surge Protector, Not a Power Strip

It’s easy to look at a power strip and a surge protector and question if there’s anything that actually makes them different. After all, they both give you extra plugs, right?

Yes, but there’s more to it than that. Listed below are some of the important differences between the two that make one a far better choice for your business’ power delivery needs.

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Amazon Testing Biometric Checkout Technology

Amazon Testing Biometric Checkout Technology

Love them or hate them, self-service checkout registers in brick-and-mortar stores are here to stay, especially considering that research has demonstrated that Gen Z has about twice the level of buy-in to the automated point-of-sale terminals as Gen X does, and that self-checkout is the predominant modern form of payment. With this success, many have wondered how welcome biometric payment processing might be.

As it turns out, it would seem it isn’t.

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Chromebook Shelf Life is Shorter Than Previously Thought

Chromebook Shelf Life is Shorter Than Previously Thought

Laptops are no longer exclusive to the home and work environments; more and more schools and universities are adopting laptops and other educational technology for the purposes of delivering cutting-edge instruction. Chromebooks are just one option available, if not the most cost-effective one out there. However, this leads to a unique set of problems, especially when the software powering these devices reaches its end of life.

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What Your Business Needs to Know about BYOD

What Your Business Needs to Know about BYOD

There’s no denying that running a successful business comes with its fair share of costs, and many would argue that some of these costs are anything but fair. As such, it makes sense to try and minimize your operating expenses by any sustainable means. Let’s go over one such cost-saving measure you can implement—Bring Your Own Device policies—and address how to do so without shortchanging your organization's security in the process.

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What to Look For When Shopping for a Laptop

What to Look For When Shopping for a Laptop

We spend a lot of time working with the technology that businesses depend on, including the laptop workstations utilized by just about everyone in many modern organizations. As such, listed below are some of our insights so that you know what qualities you should look for when you’re ready to acquire some additional devices for your organization.

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Advantages of Keeping a Clean Workspace

Advantages of Keeping a Clean Workspace

Every office has that one employee that doesn’t seem to care that they are working in a room with other people. You know the type: They have day-old food on their desk, there are papers and other unnecessary items strewn about the desktop, things are sticky and smell strange. The funny part is they seem comfortable with that mess. Listed below are the benefits of keeping your workspace clean.

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How to Clean Your Keyboard

How to Clean Your Keyboard

The keyboard that you're using to access this blog is, in a word, gross. While we aren’t going to go into too much detail about what makes keyboards so grimy, we did want to outline how you can easily clean up your keyboard every so often, just to make sure that it’s A: more hygienic, and B: less likely to malfunction at some point.

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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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A New AI Technology that Monitors Your Health

A New AI Technology that Monitors Your Health

While we typically focus on how numerous technologies can be utilized in business applications as a way to boost a small or medium-sized organization’s capabilities, we occasionally come across a topic that is just undeniably cool. We recently heard about the development of a flexible new wearable that uses AI to monitor the health of the wearer that we wanted to discuss with you.

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How to Tell If an Upgrade is In Order

How to Tell If an Upgrade is In Order

In all aspects of society, upgrades and updates have become part of life. For instance, consider how often you’re prompted to update your software—and how often some people may ignore these prompts, assuming that everything will be just fine.

As you might imagine, this is not the mindset that will allow your business to advance. Instead, it’s important that you can identify when your technology is no longer helping and is instead holding you back so that you can implement that which will help your business advance.

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You Need to Know How Much Your Printer is Costing Your Organization

You Need to Know How Much Your Printer is Costing Your Organization

With businesses actively searching for ways to reduce costs in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, one place a lot of businesses are considering cutting is their printing initiatives. There are several new solutions that can provide businesses options without having to rely on printed materials. If your business is one that cannot, however, you should know just how much your printer is costing your business. 

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USB vs. HDMI

USB vs. HDMI

When you look at the back of your computer, where the motherboard’s many, many ports are accessible, there’s a substantial variety of connection types available to do a variety of things, some of which may overlap with one another. One key example: the shared capability between USB and HDMI as a means of connecting your PC to many of its peripherals. Let’s consider which is likely to outlast the other.

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The Advantages of Solid State Drives

The Advantages of Solid State Drives

When it comes to drives for your computer or workstation, you have a few options available to you, one of which is the solid state drive, or SSD. What’s the difference between your typical hard drive and an SSD? Listed below is a break down some of the details about SSDs, including how they are different from your traditional hard disk drive, and why you might contemplate implementing one.

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Pros and Cons of Adding New Infrastructure

Pros and Cons of Adding New Infrastructure

The server is the heart and brain of a business’ computing infrastructure, so much so that a failure can cause catastrophic effects on your business. If you are at a point where you are thinking about adding a server to your infrastructure, or replacing one that is a little long in the tooth, you now have less of a dilemma than you may have had previously. This doesn’t mean that it is not a serious decision, but today you have options on how you want to go about deploying your new server. This month, we thought we would go over some of the pros and cons that come with adding new infrastructure and whether purchasing a new server outright is the right decision for your business.

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Percussive Maintenance is Not a Good Strategy

Percussive Maintenance is Not a Good Strategy

We’re all familiar with the old, cliched joke where someone needs to give their technology a good whack in order for it to work right—and by some miracle, it works. The thing is, it isn’t a miracle, and can sometimes be effective. However, this is not a strategy that we would recommend.

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How to Adjust Your Mouse Speed Settings in Windows 10 & 11

How to Adjust Your Mouse Speed Settings in Windows 10 & 11

If your mouse moves slowly, so does your whole computing experience. If you change a couple of settings, you may find that your mouse speed and sensitivity can make a mountain of change for your productivity. How you can adjust these settings in Windows 10 or 11 is listed below. 

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Explaining the Current Supply Chain Issues

Explaining the Current Supply Chain Issues

If you have tried procuring hardware or products over the past couple years, chances are you have noticed that it is harder to find them than usual. This is especially the case for any organizations that have dealings with computing hardware, as the price has been hiked considerably on even the most basic of components. What triggered this dramatic change in the technology supply chain, and what can be done about it?

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How to Reduce Hardware Expenses

How to Reduce Hardware Expenses

Businesses usually struggle with the hardware side of running a business, whether it is locating the right solutions or taking care of them. Hardware like server units, workstations, and networking components are what keep your company functioning, and without it, you don’t have much of a business. How can you make sure that your business is addressing this critical aspect of running a business? How can you keep hardware from breaking your budget? We recommend starting with a network audit.

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Hardware Challenges and Questions Your Business Could Encounter

Hardware Challenges and Questions Your Business Could Encounter

There will come a time when your organization will need to acquire hardware like monitors, server units, workstations, networking components, and other technology. It is your responsibility as a business owner to make educated decisions about how you go about upgrading your gear, but it’s not always immediately clear what the correct path forward is.

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