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Monday, October 15th, 2007One of the best ways to backup your documents and files is to perform a mirror backup. As I have mentioned before in 20 Pointers for planning your backup strategy. The simplest backup strategy can often be the most effective one.
A Mirror backup simply consists taking a complete copy of documents and files and storing […]
Free Remote Support Software
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Many businesses benefit from remote support software which enables IT departments and computer support companies to resolve computer issues. For businesses that are big enough to have a central server, this can be achieved easily with little expenditure using software like VNC or Remote Desktop. Smaller businesses typically need to purchase software like Log Me […]
Fixing Computers for Beer!
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Like most people involved with computer support, my first experience began when fixing PC’s for friends and family. Usually this resulted in payment with free beer, not bad when you where 17! Ten years later I still find myself fixing friends and family computers.
So here is quick guide to what I would install on […]
Extending Window Live Writer Features
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I’m a great fan of Window Live Writer, but sometimes I feel its missing one or two features that could make my day-to-day blogging life easier. Luckily Windows Live Writer features can be extended in a similar way to Firefox .
Before you install any plugins make sure you have the latest version of Windows […]
Plan your projects using Mind Mapping software
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Last night I was speaking to one of my clients about their ideas for software system they would like developing. Although my client had done an excellent job of laying out her ideas using Excel and Word, I feel that actually with all it’s features Microsoft Office had let her down.
Yeah you can use some of […]
Which Firefox extensions would you pay money for?
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Extensions add some great functionality to Firefox. Although with thousands available, your web browser can quickly become overloaded. But what if you had to pay for them, which extensions would you really install?
Here’s ten extensions I use on daily basis and have made the effort to installing them on more than one machine on a […]
What’s this weeks internet buzz? Pownce
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Over the last couple of months or so, the internet buzz could be summed up as…
I’ve touched on Twitter before and even had a play around with it. Jaiku is nice because it pulls all our various Web 2.0 feeds together and reformats them into a timeline, see the right hand side. I am currently playing around with […]
Bootable CD to the rescue!
Monday, July 9th, 2007A couple of weeks ago I had some hard drive issues with a clients PC which stored the majority of their business data. Although backup was performed the night before, the hard drive failure occurred later on the next day. So it was essential to recover the days work from the failing hard drive. In this […]
Restoring Windows XP Backups on Windows Vista
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Last week I installed a couple more Windows Vista machines after a series of catastrophic problems at one of our smaller clients. Then it came to restoring some files from the backups which where originally created using Window XP backup utility. Microsoft in their great wisdom has removed backwards compatibility with XP backups in Windows […]
Getting Over Office 2007 - Part One
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Since it’s arrival last year, there has been a lot of negative press relating to Office 2007. Primarily over the compatibility of the new documents it produces and the user interface. So generally we have continued to give our existing clients Office 2003. Which is a very similar case with regards to deploying Windows Vista in your business. The problem businesses and IT […]