Last week Martin set up a link for a trans-atlantic Skype call for Lincoln Short Wave Club. Bob Heil founder of Heil Sound (who has worked with such bands as The Who, Grateful Dead and Peter Frampton to produce their sound) gave a presentation to the club about sound and amateur radio. Bob gives many of […]
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So what are the top work/productivity apps available? This article is written from personal experience and unlike many “I love Apple” articles I have reviewed apps that I use on my iPhone and my engineers use on their Android phones. So let’s start with some of the essential built-in applications. Internet access and email These
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QR Codes are becoming very popular, appearing in many places. A quick scan with your smartphone and you can collect (or give away) a variety of information, a web address, a phone number or plain text among other things. They are useful and many people are putting them on their business cards – I have
BBC News – Firms ‘ill prepared for IT failure’. At Octagon Technology we have a wide range of practical experience in helping client’s be prepared for technology failiures. As part of our best practice we document how we and the clients will respomd to an issue with their systems, practice these proceedures with them and
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BBC News – Essentials: Avoiding mobile roaming charges abroad. The BBC News programme Click has posted a video on how to reduce mobile phone costs whilst travelling abroad.
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It has been an early start today! A contract client called the office at 7am – their issue was that the the PC that runs the hotel booking and billing system was down. It took a short time to collect up some spares and tools but we turned out and had their system back up
Darth Vader is the new customer service trainer for a national computer company. If you want technology support and supply from the “Dark Side of the Force” then you are in luck, if you see that latest TV advert from a national computer shop, that’s what they provide. However if you want good support and
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MegaReader | Clive’s Blog. The iOS 5 update on my iPhone killed the book reader I was using on my iPhone 4 – I think I have found a replacement, MegaReader. I have a number of posts outlining my hunt for a new app on my blog.
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Our plans worked – we fixed the client’s server – and as a result of the client following our advice, they lost about three hours working time but no data. The staff used this time to catch up with those “non-computer” jobs. We lost most of a nights sleep and the staff were able to just log
