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Google Apps fail 14th May 2012 6:02 PM
Here is a great demonstration why Google Apps converting all uploaded documents to HTML is a big fail, if you like to see documents as they were designed.

For us and many people it a pretty big show stopper!

Take a look here
The best way to set up your email (provider limitations permitting) is IMAP, this allows for synchronising between the email accounts and any sub folders, changes on one PC will be replicated to the others.
Try to avoid POP if possible, it's an old and less reliable protocol for mail delivery.
If you cannot have IMAP from your current provider and you still want to have e- mail properly synchronised across your PCs, then condiser getting a hosted exchange account, this will provide business class e-mail that will be able to handle more advcanced features such as secure mail and calander sync, extremely cheap as well, worth considering since if you don't leave copies of your mails on the server, then a crash could potentially leave you without any e-mail history!!

Most of the exchange accounts we have are 25gigs so you almost never have to delete anything... ever!
Do Macs get Virus's? 7th May 2012 10:58 PM
We wrote about this last year in our
Glad I just got a hand me down iPad 2 from my colleague now!

I heard they are facing this same issue across most of the globe, I believe Australia were one of the first to start investigating this.

I think this is just a continuation of the miss-leading adverts for broadband speeds! I guess we could say that at last the regulators are doing something about it, finally.

Infinite Storage via Cloud 4th April 2012 10:31 PM
Um....... not too keen on the word Beta on anything that requires me to upload any of my data personal or otherwise.

I will wait and see how things pan out once the full version is released.
I tend not to, I have read so much conflicting information about this that I took that stance that its giving link juice away.
I may well be wrong but that's our policy!
How Much Do You Spend On Computers? 27th March 2012 7:38 AM
Hows that going? I've migrated our Exchange server, and scrapped our sharepoint box, but that's as far as I've got. Still stuck with DC's and F+P servers. Yet to take the final step..

We have migrated our Exchange, Lync and Sharepoint servers. We use federation and keep our Domain controllers onsite, and FPS too although most of the filing has been replaced with the SharePoint to be honest!

The plan is to keep it the way it is for the meantime at least.
How Much Do You Spend On Computers? 26th March 2012 5:55 PM
Too much!

But we have been migrating our Servers to the cloud so we spend less on hardware than we used to.
But we still spend a good 700 - 1000 per computer.

Is Facebook a Useful tool 23rd February 2012 10:42 PM
Paid advertising on facebook has typically low coversion rates, as unlike with Google Adwords, people aren't actually searching for your product or service.

Having a presence on Facebook (as a business page) is different however and can be really successful. Mainly as it allows you to re target users as often as you like (although hopefully not too often..you will notice people UN-liking you)

I would have to agree with this, despite us having a fairly active Facebook Business page, most of our endeavours to attract new business from the paid ads fail.
We offer both B2B and Consumer services, I think that most (the majority at least) people on Facebook are only logged in to chat and socialise with there friends and family and adverts are seen as an annoyance and ignored.

There is an art to be able to tap into that for your business, but we don't seem to have it!

We stick with Google! Where people are searching with intent
Lloyds bank perform PR stunt! 23rd February 2012 10:19 PM
I would have to agree, seems like a PR stunt to me, they could have done this at any time during "The Credit Crunch" but the timing is right at the moment where everyone is talking about it.
Seems just a little too fishy to me thumbsdown