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Best Wireless Mouse For Business

On August 19, 2022, Posted by , In Hardware, With No Comments

Cutting the cord and allowing wireless peripherals can be daunting for any organisation! Choosing the right wireless mouse can make the difference between headache and happy employees. As a consulting firm, traditionally we have been opposed to wireless anything due to their unpredictability, especially peripherals which have a higher likelihood…

Keyword Staking With Presearch

On August 1, 2022, Posted by , In Tips and Tricks, By ,, , With No Comments

Becoming the top search result of a search engine is the dream of many companies and website owners, often a dream requiring tens of thousands of dollars in Adwords. But is there an easier way? Hot to the search engine scene with over 4 million users is Presearch which offers…

Ransomware: Should you pay?

Ransomware is quickly becoming one of the largest threats to organisations of all shapes and sizes, and the stuff of nightmares for both IT professionals and business owners. McAfee reports that ransomware attacks have doubled in 2019 and the reality is it’s a threat you’ve likely already experienced before or…

Brother B-PAC SDK Error Codes

On July 20, 2019, Posted by , In Tips and Tricks, By , , With No Comments

b-PAC is a powerful SDK allowing developers to integrate and write software with Brother P-touch series label makers. Error Codes Below are the possible error codes generated by the SDK from the b-PAC 3.1 SDK help document. Source: Brother BPAC User Guide v3.1 (Compiled HTML Help file ‘.chm’) Common Issues…

SharePoint Best Practices

There are many ways to use SharePoint, some efficiently, some convoluted but workable and some which are setting yourself up for disaster. This document is to give you hints and pointers in the correct direction. Files stored in SharePoint shouldn’t be emailed between staff, only the URL to the document….

How to make a mouse jiggler with Digispark

On April 30, 2019, Posted by , In General,Tips and Tricks, By ,, , With 16 Comments

Mouse jigglers are a useful tool in the IT field to keep a computer active for a wide range of purposes from stopping a screensaver activating in a presentation to preventing a computer shutting down for a forensic investigator. There are two main categories of jigglers: Software Jigglers: A computer…

How RSA SecureID tokens work

On February 18, 2019, Posted by , In General,Security, By ,,, , With No Comments

RSA authentication tokens can seem mystical, with the biggest mystery surrounding them being as to how such a small device that never needs charging can generate random codes the bank also knows. Contrary to popular belief RSA SecureID hardware tokens do not have a radio receiver’s in them and don’t…

Creating MYSQL Insert and Update statements with EXCEL

There are times when you need to manipulate data with excel before importing it into a database. Excel does have functionality which can be used to connect the spreadsheet directly to a data-source such as a SQL database, however this is not always practical. Using Excel formula’s you can easily…

Improving your organization’s physical security

In the mad dash to combat hacker and the growing number of cyber security threats, many organisations are forgetting to secure their own front door! While the majority of attacks against businesses originate online and normally are non targeted, physical attack’s do happen and can have devastating consequences if safeguards…

How To Spot Phishing Emails

On January 22, 2019, Posted by , In General,Security,Tips and Tricks, By , , With No Comments

It’s estimated cyber crime costs the world over $700 billion damages a year with phishing and email scams making up a large proportion of this due to their high effectiveness. Unfortunately this is on the rise and while spam filters are getting better so too are the scammers. Increasingly fraudulent…