Choosing between Live Mesh / Live Sync / Live Drive for synchronising files between PCs

We’ve been using Microsoft Groove for a couple of years now to synchronise a shared company folder between our geographically distributed users. It hasn’t been touched since it was set up two or three years ago and I’ve been wanting to revisit and look at alternatives for a while.  Groove is overkill for us and [...]

Snom 820 .. now that is a nice phone!

How long will I be able to resist one of these!?? … yes I know … I really do need to get out more! £315 though…. not cheap …..

“snom today launched the snom 820, an elegant and attractive VoIP phone. It features a large high-resolution TFT color display (3.5″, 320 x 240 pixels) and can [...]

Success! By instant gratification .. or plug plug plugging away?

We live in a society with a desire for the instant fix – a lottery win – overnight success on a talent show – instant celebrity bringing fame & fortune – a quick killing on the stock or property market (let’s not look where that’s got us!) ….
The reality is that for the majority of [...]

Quote of the week

“I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better.”
-Harry S. Truman

And the broadband saga continues …

Our client is now 28 days without broadband. On a business service! I’m fast coming to the opinion that the “ADSL broadband system” is completely unfit for purpose, and for a normally placid individual I’m finding it hard to contain my rage! Whoever at BT is responsible for this debacle of a system should be [...]

UK broadband woes – what’s happening with BT? And should we be worried!?

I’m increasingly frustrated, annoyed, and even angry with the systems in place to manage ADSL broadband in the UK. Seems that every ADSL issue we have had recently has turned into a complete nightmare!
As an example :-
· Customer has broadband with Plus.net for a year or more.
· The PSTN line is accidentally & incorrectly moved [...]

Quote of the week: 16th May 2008

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
-Albert Einstein

How long since the last post …. finding the time.

I’ve discovered one thing over the last year. Writing a blog is difficult! Or rather, consistently writing a blog is difficult. It’s not that I can’t find things to write about … or that I don’t enjoy writing … it’s just nearly impossible to find the time!  In the words of my last post “I [...]

VoIP for your business? Lessons we have learned

We use a Voice over IP telephone system at work. This gives us a lot of flexibility – we have 2 main offices and also extensions at home. We can effectively control our system from anywhere – and if I’m working at a client’s site for a couple of days I can even take my [...]

Whoops! Typo causes $7.5m mistake …

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/157026/typo-causes-7500000-mistake.html