How expensive will your office move be – really?

It doesn’t matter whether you have a big company or a small one, moving offices has costs – as we know having undergone an office move earlier this year. Most people think about the obvious costs like removal services, downtime as the business is ‘in transit’ and the...

Windows 8 needs a clean

Despite the fanfare and razzamatazz as Windows8 gears up for launch our first impressions are not great. Microsoft has leapt on the mobile and tablet wagon and created an operating system geared to social media and mobile devices, leaving day-to-day business users...

Dusting out the cobwebs in your computer

Most people download programs from time to time and, although a few of them are used regularly, it’s likely your programs folder has several old applications that you haven’t used for a long time. Even with today’s comparatively huge memory, if you fill it up with...

Keeping your computer organised

Where are all your documents?  Are they scattered across the desktop, all in My Documents or in folders with appropriate names on?  What happens when you need to find a document that you created some time ago, when looking in Recent Documents isn’t useful – how long...

Basic DIY for poorly computers

Most people know that if their computer starts to misbehave then the first thing to do is to reboot it.  If it won’t turn off, then do a hard close, give it a few seconds and then start it up again. Three things can happen as a result: It fires up and everything is...

Creative Telecoms!

Most people are familiar with fixed line telephones and mobile phones – but as soon as it gets more complicated, the eyes glaze over and, unless you’re an avid techie, the brain tunes out! However, with today’s business environment a flexible telephone system may be...

IT Basics for the confused

It’s easy for people to get confused when IT people start throwing around terms like domain name, registrant, name servers, hosting, web development (isn’t that design?) and so on.  So here’s a quick basic explanation of the terms associated with your website: Domain...

New staff – new equipment

If you’re growing your team you’ll also need to grow your IT system to accommodate new staff.  They’ll need a computer, workstation, or laptop, appropriate work space, a phone (and maybe a mobile), an email address and access to the internet. It can be tempting to...

Bouncing email from a mobile

In today’s world people are no longer sitting in front of a computer when they send you an email – and that can influence whether or not the email arrives successfully. Recently we had a support query from one of our clients who discovered that an agent...

Cracking the Code

If you talk to an IT professional you’ll hear a whole host of jargon – and, whilst it’s tempting to tune it out, it’s just as well if you know roughly what they’re talking about. Here are a few terms that you’ll hear when your IT people are talking about your website....