Aside from the strive to use modern collaboration tools, many people still live in email as their main form of business communication. Microsoft’s “any device” approach means we’re seeing more support for Outlook and other Office apps on the Mac, but there are still some functionality differences. Here are a couple of features that are…
Outlook cannot log on. Verify you are connected to the network.
I’ve seen this great little error occur with Microsoft Outlook 2016. It’s so great that even completely uninstalling Office 365 ProPlus and reinstalling it doesn’t get rid of the error. This is on Windows 10 with the latest operating system updates applied. “Outlook cannot log on. Verify you are connected to the network and are…
Windows 10 blue screen reboot loop – Attempted to write to readonly memory
We only have one customer who is not a business. They are the sweetest elderly couple and they’ve called us for years. Today I had one of their computers in because it was blue screening. It’s a custom built machine that originally had Windows 7 on it but has since been upgraded to Windows 8 and…
Graduating from Computer Troubleshooters
The email subject read: The biggest announcement since Apple removed the headphone jack. How do you break it to a group of friends that you’re leaving them, after 12 years? We were just honest. After 12 years of trading, Tony & I announced that we would be graduating from the international Computer Troubleshooters franchise, effective…
Xerocon South – My Expectations of Xero’s Conference
This week a few of my interests have collided – Microsoft Australia’s annual Partner Conference, ProBlogger’s annual conference and Xero’s Xerocon South conference. As much as I hate to be missing out on the announcements and tech goodness from Microsoft, or the hugely engaging ProBlogger fun, Xerocon South won me over for a few reasons. It’s in my city (yay for…
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…