Make your website look like an app with an awesome icon Encourage repeat visitors by creating a great icon for their home page Many people bookmark websites to come back to later. They go into that Bookmark void on your computer and may never be seen again. Those bookmarks are so hard to search and […]
I’m going to show you how to create a quick and simple survey actually using Google Drive. Now you could use something like Survey Monkey to build an online quiz or survey – it’s an excellent tool and has it’s place. But if you do have Google Apps, or you have access to Google Drive, […]
Do you wonder about the need for a mobile app? Why not just optimise your website for mobile? In a recent article on Search Engine Land the author predicts that “… mobile apps, in general, peaking out shortly, as mobile computing power and network Internet speeds become strong enough to remove the need for native […]
Do you accept credit cards and really know what the possibilities are if you don’t protect your customer data? Don’t put all your trust in your developer – know the issues yourself and push your tech team. As an online retailer you are responsible for protecting your customers sensitive information such as credit card numbers between the […]
Quick iPhone tip: Not many people know that you can create a Safari shortcut to your favourite website on your home screen. It will appear on your iPhone just like an application from the app store. Check it out! I’m going to show you today how to add a favourite website to the home screen […]
You know how important it is to keep your company data safe. Where is the best place to store your data? Company servers, or the cloud? Most company data is stored locally on unprotected computers. 1 in every 10 laptops is stolen in the first year. 66% of us lose USB keys. And 60% of […]
Macquarie University is a really interesting campus. It’s about the number one campus in Australia for environmental science, and we have a great business school, the Australian School of Advanced Medicine, what we really care about is a digital experience of being on our campus. And of course Google’s a pretty big part of that. […]
Last week marked the sixth annual Google I/O in San Francisco, and with it, many key product announcements. We have created the following summary of the five product launches that may have implications for your Google Apps business. 1) Google+ Hangouts will be replacing Google Talk, Chat in Gmail, and Google+ Messenger to create a better experience to send messages, […]
Using Log Parser on IIS Log files to get data on bandwidth usage. I came across the need recently to gather information on traffic on each site hosted on a Windows IIS 7 server. to get the breakdown across each site, I needed to set up the log files to log all of the bytes-in […]
Gmail has a new compose window for writing and responding to messages. Instead of taking over your whole screen to write a message, a small window opens up at the bottom of your screen. This makes it easier to refer to items in your inbox, and even lets you scroll through your other messages. All […]
Before you build an app, or mobile website you should consider the ongoing work you need to do that will keep people coming back. For that you need a plan to get people engaged and excited about you. Here are 5 tips for your mobile engagement strategy that will help keep your app full: 1. Engage […]
Google Calendar is the part of Google Apps for Business that helps you keep your business on schedule. It saves your employees time and energy by providing them the scheduling solution that is fast and intuitive. Scheduling a meeting with more than a few people can often be time consuming. With Google Calendar, you can […]
More and more organisations are choosing to work with resellers to smoothly ease their exiting email systems into Google Apps. Why aren’t they sticking with their own IT admin people for advice and support? Well, it turns out that resellers not only know much more about the entire migration process, but they can tremendously improve […]
Sometimes, the fastest way to find an email in Gmail, is to search. Just like you use Google search to find things on the internet, you can search in Gmail to find messages in your mail box. For example, if I’m looking for a message about a recent project, I could enter the name of […]
Are Android / iPhone / Windows phone designs really that different? Can we create just one design / experience for all of them? At a talk I attended recently, Geoff Bowers of Daemon illustrated their challenges in delivering the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) suite of web information systems, web sites, data processing and mobile accessible […]
