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Here is a scenario that I’m sure will be familiar to most of you. You call your bank, your doctor, your insurance company etc. and have to answer increasingly personal waves of questions in order to do whatever it is that you called them for. An example of this is when I had to call [...]
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Well it took a few months, but the Surface Pro finally hit UK shores last week. We’ve had ours for just under a week now, so here are our impressions now we’ve had a chance to put it through its paces. Initially, we were slightly underwhelmed by the Pro. While that sounds like a bad [...]
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A few of years ago, a long-time customer of ours came to us for help in replacing their aging CRM system with something newer and more powerful. At the time, CRM wasn’t something that we did, but we knew businesses that would be able to help, so we invited several of them in to bid [...]
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We’ve been busy on the local business-to-business networking schemes recently. If you’re an attendee of the local BNI or 4N meetings, you will have seen Managing Director Stuart Burgess peddling our wares to all and sundry. Without going all “American Psycho”, one of the key ways of getting yourself remembered at these meetings is by [...]
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As more and more of our day to day business operations are going digital, we are hearing increasingly from business wanting to: The first two points are very common requests and Cloud Files easily addresses these, but have you thought of the third and fourth points? Consider the following scenario: you are a bookkeeping practice [...]
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As our regular readers should know, we are big fans of Cloud Computing here at Agile IT and we practice what we preach; in fact we have a hybrid-Cloud solution – we have on-premise servers for our CRM and accountancy packages and Cloud-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for our email and files. I doubt we will [...]
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My friends and I had a bit of a technological “eureka!” moment this past weekend; the YouTube app on the PlayStation. I should preface this with the information that my PlayStation is a media device first and a games console second. I store all my photos, pictures and movies on a NAS (network attached storage) [...]
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I’m sure you’ve all heard of DVD Drives being used as cup-holders and the like, so I thought I’d run down the more interesting work we get through on an average day on the Helpdesk: The broken laptops/mobile phones Now I’m not saying that people get a little reckless over the weekends, but we seem [...]
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As I’ve still not got my hands on a BlackBerry Z10, I thought I would gather up some of my old tech and do a side-by-side with my current tech so we can see just how far the world has moved on: Laptop Hmm, the Dell Latitude D800 vs. the Dell Vostro V131. At a [...]
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Just a quick one for today, here are three steps that you can take right now to ensure you are staying safer online: Update then disable Java Java is a wonderful software tool that allows applications to be written for multiple-platforms. In lay terms, a Java developer can write his program once, without have to [...]
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