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How to Recover Data from a Water-Logged Phone

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Has this ever happened to you? You’re walking along the channel in Round Lake Beach talking excitedly on your smart-phone with your girlfriend, when suddenly, plons! Your phone spontaneously decides today's a great day for a swim, leaps out of your hand and into the water? Stupid phone! Doesn't it know it can't swim?! So what do you do? You hire a professional scuba-diver, at $250/hour, to go down there, and get your errant phone! Even though it’s obviously going through some sort of identity crisis, thinking it’s a submersible rather than a phone. Maybe trying to make these things smarter wasn’t such a good idea…

The IT Road Warrior: How to Set Up a Secure Mobile Office

A person walking confidently down an empty road at sunset, surrounded by glowing tech icons for VPN, cloud storage, and security, symbolizing the mobility and empowerment of the modern IT road warrior.

You are the IT Road Warrior: part digital nomad, part productivity powerhouse, always on the move. Whether you're working from a cozy coffee shop or an airport lounge, your mobile office is the key to staying productive, wherever the road takes you.

The True Cost of Downtime

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You walk into the office on a regular Tuesday, brimming with optimism and caffeine. But instead of the productive hum of your team's keyboards, you're greeted by… silence. Not the peaceful kind either, but the eerie "nothing’s working" kind. The Wi-Fi’s dead, the computers are frozen, and your team? They’re lolling about like a bunch of extras between takes for a crowd scene in Spartacus.