Technology is supposed to get cheaper every year. We think that is ending for storage and for AI, and that small firms and new graduates will feel it first.

This week’s Microsoft 365 outage lost nobody’s email, but it stopped a lot of businesses reaching it. What owning your data really means for a studio.

Authenticator codes do not always follow you to a new phone. Move them before the old one is wiped, or risk being locked out of email, banking and payroll.

Drive updates itself, then quietly vanishes from the Finder sidebar. Here is the one switch that brings it back.

Ten minutes of IT jobs before the studio closes for Christmas: an out-of-office that gives nothing away, alerts that still have an owner, and what to switch off.

A free AI note-taker is a third party sitting in on a confidential meeting. Here is the safe way to get the same result.

Every studio has a Tab Collector, a Remind Me Tomorrow and a Post-it Password. A friendly field guide, with one small fix for each.

A voice can be copied from a few seconds of audio. One habit stops the scam: hang up and call back on a number you already hold.

Every studio has a file called final_FINAL_v7. One simple naming rule that ends the guessing, and what to let the shared drive remember for you.

AI tools save real time. The risk is handing a client’s confidential work to a company you have no contract with. Five rules for teams.

The hooded hacker. The glowing padlock. The wall of green code. A fond farewell to the pictures every IT company uses, and why we do not.

An approval prompt you did not cause means someone already has your password. What to do, and what never to do.

Payment fraud rarely looks like fraud. The five versions we see most, and the one phone call that stops all of them.

MFA, MDM, SSO, the cloud. Fourteen bits of IT jargon translated into plain English, with what each one means for a studio.

A big new macOS arrives every year and the button is very tempting. Why studios should wait a few weeks, what to check first, and what you should never put off.

Most attacks on small businesses start with an ordinary-looking email. The four small tells, and what to do if you clicked.

Every studio has a drawer of unlabelled hard drives nobody dares throw away. How to find out what is on them, what to keep, and how to stop the drawer filling up again.

Most small businesses have a file called Logins.xlsx. It is the easiest security win going, and it takes an afternoon to fix.

It is the oldest line in IT and it is not a brush-off. What a restart actually does, when it will not help, and how often to do it.

Printers are the worst-behaved thing in any office. Why that is, the three fixes that solve most of it, and when to give up and buy a new one.