Category Tech How-To

Microsoft 365 Is Laughing at You: Tweak These Settings & Show It Who’s Boss

Illustration of productivity tools in a colorful grid layout, depicting various Microsoft 365 activities: video conferencing, file sharing, task management, calendar scheduling, and document organization. Each activity is shown in its own vibrant compartment, using a bold, graphic style with retro-inspired colors and shadow effects.

Microsoft 365: the fortress of productivity… or the clown car of confusion? It all depends on how you set it up. Master the art of email Zen, organize Teams like a pro, and keep files in check without turning your desktop into a digital junk drawer. We’ve got the settings that can transform 365 from an accidental prankster into your productivity ally. Think of it as telling your software, ‘I’m in charge now!’

How to Recover Data from a Water-Logged Phone

Cartoon image of a happy smartphone swimming underwater surrounded by colorful fish and a sunken ship, representing a phone submerged in water.

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…