The internet has eaten my email

How often have you sent an email and got no response and then, following up, find that the person you sent it to hasn’t received it?  Most of the time you get some kind of message telling you it hasn’t been received, but not always. Why has your email failed to...

Stay in control of your website

When you talk to a new web company about revamping your current website or creating a new one, don’t forget to talk about the content management system. Content management can be anything from just being able to edit the text on a page, to being able to do almost...

Enriching your website

The search engines love content – that means that website owners who want to keep their site well up the rankings need to keep ‘feeding’ the hungry search engines. If you’re not a prolific writer, have dyslexia or are just time-poor that can pose a challenge. ...

Connecting by email

Most of us take email for granted – until we don’t get a reply to something we’ve sent and call up to discover that it has not been received.  Often this is because it’s been routed into the junk folder – and who has the time to look in that regularly?  Anyway, the...

Step-by-step

If you are in the manufacturing industry there has to be a process for producing the product you’re making.  You can’t carry out random actions and expect a product that works to come out of the other end of the production process. Some organisations have processes...

Making the most of your applications

Some of the calls we get asking for support are more about understanding how to get an application to carry out a specific activity than about things that fail to work. Having recently spent some time with a Microsoft trainer I’ve learned lots of useful tips that...

Christmas fun

Do not click any of these links if you have a deadline to meet!  Warning: highly addictive. Smack the penguin Christmas bubbles Bouncing reindeer Enjoy!!    

Managing expectations

When you use technology everything goes swimmingly as long as it all works, but, even the most robust systems go down occasionally.  Your IT support will do their best to get you back up and running as quickly as possible, but nobody can give you a 100% guarantee that...

False economies

IT support costs money – we all have to earn a living!  If you’ve got an internal IT support person or team then you pay their costs.  If you’re a smaller organisation you probably don’t need a full-time support person, which is where outsourced services come into...

Is your baby causing you a security risk?

Today’s homes are full of technology.  We have computers, wireless connections, smart meters for our utilities, smart boxes for the TV, games consoles, broadband direct to the TV and much more.  It’s easy to plug the latest gadgets into your system and just as easy to...