Having a rather complicated home network, I’ve struggled to find an Internet filtering product that lets me work like I need to AND doesn’t need to be ‘installed’ on the devices that my kids use. I was excited to hear about the KoalaSafe kickstarter campaign then, that promised a safe WiFi network of its own.…
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Outlook 2013 changes account from Office 365 to old on premise Exchange server
When you have a problem once and you can reset everything, it’s annoying. But usually it’s quicker than getting to the root cause of exactly why it happened. When the same problem occurs a month later, it’s time to find the root cause.In this case, my Outlook 2013 randomly decides to stop connecting to Office…
Beware LinkedIn scammers wanting your company’s services
Just a quick heads up on this one. I was sent a LinkedIn connect request by someone from a state-level sporting organisation who had a title of Finance Manager. We had a Group in common, so I accepted. This was quickly followed by a message from him, stating that he was interested in our IT…
Hands up if you need a Smartphone Pledge!
Over the last few days, a few articles have come my way (including one I wrote myself) about smartphone addiction and the impact of our ‘always connected’ society. My favourite so far has been this fromm Joe Kraus at Google Ventures: http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction Hi, my name is Sonia and I’m addicted to my smartphone. Except it’s not…
Paypal / Western Union money scam
Thanks to Kate Booby at Spinefex (www.spinefex.com.au) for alerting us to this one! “I thought I should bring your attention to a scam that we have 3 separate cases of occur within our immediate friends/family. All of these people had advertised to sell items (2 x cars, 1 x horse) and had been contacted by…
Credit card fraud – happens to the best of us
I’ve always been very vigilant about watching the transactions that appear on my credit card, which is even easier to do when you can view them online via internet banking before they disappear off to your paper statement copy. Fortunately the fraud department at my business bank is just as vigilant, stopping a transaction from…