It has been an early start today! A contract client called the office at 7am – their issue was that the the PC that runs the hotel booking and billing system was down. It took a short time to collect up some spares and tools but we turned out and had their system back up […]
Darth Vader is the new customer service trainer for a national computer company. If you want technology support and supply from the “Dark Side of the Force” then you are in luck, if you see that latest TV advert from a national computer shop, that’s what they provide. However if you want good support and
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MegaReader | Clive’s Blog. The iOS 5 update on my iPhone killed the book reader I was using on my iPhone 4 – I think I have found a replacement, MegaReader. I have a number of posts outlining my hunt for a new app on my blog.
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Our plans worked – we fixed the client’s server – and as a result of the client following our advice, they lost about three hours working time but no data. The staff used this time to catch up with those “non-computer” jobs. We lost most of a nights sleep and the staff were able to just log
We had to reboot a client’s server this lunchtime as part of a planned routine maintenance programme. Jokingly the engineer I sent asked “what happens if it does not restart?” Well we found out. The machine is new, having only been onsite since late spring this year, it has been rebooted a number of times
Today whilst Martin has been out at a client building a network for them from scratch, including installing the cables, sockets and switches, then adding the PCs, a NAS box and sharing the resources – so we can get a Disaster Recovery backup for them – I have been trying to get a GPRS modem
The first job today is sorting out a client’s Blackberry software, she had upgraded the desktop software and since then the calendar sync had not worked. This client is dependent on the calendar to schedule her work force to time sensitive jobs – by having her calendar on her smartphone, saves her from having to
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I have outlined a solution for backing up iPhone photographs on my blog – here. A bit late for the photos I lost but a solution I shall be using from now on. Clive
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I first want to say “I like my iPhone” – and then I need to say I score Apple a B+, could try harder. I have tried to update my iPhone today to iOS 5 – and although Apple said my phone was backed up, it wasn’t. At the moment I am looking at a total
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