Are you using Gmail from Google to send emails using your company domain name? We find many do as it’s a free alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook 365 service. If so, do you have it set up correctly? It’s well worth checking everything is in order as Google recently started showing warning messages to recipients stating…
We’ve heard quite a lot about the little Raspberry Pi palm sized computer in recent years, and with the recent significant hardware improvements present on the new Raspberry Pi 4 we thought we’d take a look to see if it was useful to us or our customers as a thin/browser client for accessing web based…
We recently had cause to celebrate the longevity of some of our early bespoke software development projects. One of our long standing clients asked us to install the bespoke Windows software we originally wrote for them back in 2001 onto their shiny new Windows 10 64-bit desktop machines, and we were happy to oblige. The…
Microsoft SQL Server Express is Microsoft’s entry level database server solution. It is available free of charge and as such has been widely adopted within many small to medium sized businesses. Microsoft have judged that offering a free solution will get their product in to the market with many users of the Express version inevitably…
Cloud services are massively gaining in popularity – but what are they and how might they be useful to your business? Essentially a cloud service is any IT service which is supplied remotely through the internet. These fall broadly into three categories: 1) Software that you access over the internet, primarily from a web browser,…
If you store personal data about individuals, you should be registered with the UK Government’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a Data Controller. For example, a personnel system is an obvious example of a system which stores personal information. Whether you are storing the information on your own hardware at your office, using a hosted…
On the 21st April 2015 Google changed its Search Engine Algorithm to help better serve mobile-friendly sites when searching on a mobile device or more specifically a mobile phone. In the IT industry this change was coined as ‘Mobilegeddon’! Recent statistics show that 46% of all searches are now carried out on a mobile device.…
If you lay down the correct systems and infrastructure, recovery from serious IT problems can be made much easier and much less expensive. Take the fairly common example of hard drive failure. Once a drive has failed, and most drives fail eventually, it may not be possible to retrieve the data from it. And if…
If you don’t know what it is, WordPress is a freely available open source website content management system. It was originally used to power blogs but has grown in to a CMS capable of powering a full website. As of right now it is believed that 23% of the websites on the internet are powered…
