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 […]
You will find out that many organisations already have. The reasons are more than just email – Google breeds best in class software and provides it for free for many, to augment the Google Apps offering. Here is a quick Google Apps business overview, intro and some information you may not know about Google Apps. In the […]
How do you measure the success of your mobile app? What ways can you see your return of a mobile app? How do you know it’s meeting your targets? Whenever you take on an IT project or when you spend money on your business, you always need to know how your a re going to […]
Heard about Google Apps, and wondering what the fuss is all about? How could cloud based Google Apps benefit your business? We are all looking at the cloud to move services away from offices, reduce workload and increase availability. This article breaks down 6 reasons why Google Apps is better than Exchange. Capital Expenditure reduction […]
There are many reasons to need to forward on email collected by Microsoft Exchange, such as vacation planning, change of domains or migration to a new system using dual delivery. This is how you set up Exchange forward email to external address. Its done in two steps because you need to create a contact for […]
