Keyword Staking With Presearch
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…
Generating secure password’s with QWERTY Cards
Creating unique secure passwords for each service we use on the internet can be tough, particularly if you have requirements not to use an electronic password manager. Without a easy to use password management solution in place, it’s almost inevitable at least 1 of the following will occur:– You will…
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
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
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…
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
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…
Vultr, the affordable easy to use cloud
Hosting cloud servers can be difficult, especially if your first experiences with it are with complex providers like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Learning this platforms takes weeks of full time study to use them effectively. While it’s undeniable these two enterprise platforms are incredibly powerful, do you really need…