I’ve been daydreaming about replacing my home theatre speakers, since our ageing amplifier died. The sleek, silver Sony box was impressive in its day but that was over 18 years ago. Now we’ve got all the wireless and internet connected things, I’m spoilt for choice. I’ve done some online research but I’m not a detailed,…
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Why the I.T. guy hates the Cloud
For small businesses, Cloud solutions seem to deliver innovation, productivity and profitability with ease. You don’t have to sit around and wait for the “I.T. guy” to install something on a server, then install something else on your computer. It’s all enabled by just signing up to a service in your web browser and entering…
Calling all SMB Innovators – Where are you?
Warning: This is an opinion piece and quite honestly, a rant. You have been warned. Our business has been supporting the technology needs of SMBs for 12 years now, after we stepped out of the corporate world. The early years were comparatively easy – a business wanted I.T. support, we’d upgrade a server or two…
How to get the ATO Business Portal to work on Windows 10
The ATO Business Portal is vital to Australian businesses. This secure gateway allows us to provide reporting information to the tax office, to meet our compliance regulations. It’s understandable that if you do any of those kind of tasks (either for your own business or someone elses), you need to know that the website and…
How to become known within your Industry: Show Up. Contribute. Share.
People have started asking me how I have made so many connections with other people in IT, especially overseas. When I examined it, it turns out it’s just a by-product of how I engage with other people and get connected into groups of peers and ‘hero’ speakers/writers. It’s nothing I specifically set out to achieve.…
How SMB IT service providers view the Cloud
It’s not news that IT is an ever-changing industry. The skills that I learnt when I first started are now mostly irrelevant. I say ‘mostly’ because some of the fundamentals of disks, files, networks etc still hold true (once we’d migrated off token ring anyway). And I still use the command prompt to search for…