Consider IT are pleased to announce that we have now become authorised resellers of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools for businesses. Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs.
With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated IM, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs …
Last year we moved from the Firefox browser to Google Chrome; and boy is it fast! One thing we have missed though is the ability to subscribe to various RSS feeds to get the latest news and updates from our various favourite websites. In Firefox, we could do this by just clicking on the RSS logo and asking Firefox to dock the feed onto the top navigation bar as shown here:
We really missed this functionality in Chrome, so asked …
Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Software Updates
One of the most important aspects of keeping your computer running properly, whether for home or business, is keeping the software updated including adding security patches when they are available. Edinburgh IT support will tell you that whether you are living in the small fishing village of Cramford or on the coast at Gullane Bents you will surely be better off hiring a support person to take care of all of your computer …
WordPress were alerted to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2.
If you use our WordPress Management service, your WordPress website will be updated this week. If not, simply log in to your wp-admin login area and click Upgrade WordPress.…
At last! 3.2 is downloadable!
OpenOffice has now been released and boasts much faster start-up time than its predecessors. Not only does it start-up fast, but OpenOffice now lets you open and save files using Microsoft Office 2007′s “.docx” format giving you much easier access to files that have been saved on newer suites.
We believe it wont be long until you can run OpenOffice inside a web-browser, just like GoogleDocs.
OpenOffice 3.2 – can now be downloaded here for …
Denmark’s recent Parliamentary decision means that as of April next year, all Danish state office communication will be sent in ODF format rather than Microsoft’s Office format.
According to version2.dk, Helge Sander (A Science Minister) told Parliament “My ambition is that in the future we will only communicate using open standards…”
If you want to test out open standards to closed standards you can grab a copy of Open Office here.…
Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6.0. The Microsoft browser that is still widely (read: wrongly) used in a lot of big businesses today has been identified as the biggest risk in cyber attacks on the search engine. Google announced that certain services, like Google Docs, would not “work properly” within the browser.
Following Google’s revelations, the French and German governments advised their citizens to switch to a different browser until the hole had been closed. …
Mozilla, the company that produces the Firefox browser, has released the final version of Firefox 3.6. Studies suggest that over 75% of the thousands of addons available for Firefox will be compatible with the latest version.
Firefox is an open source, fast Internet browser. It’s faster than Internet Explorer 8. So if you’re fed up waiting on pages to load, maybe it’s time to change.
Firefox can be downloaded FREE for Windows, Mac and Linux from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/…
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a $290m patent infringement judgment against Microsoft, won by Toronto-based software company i4i in Texas. It alleges Microsoft’s software infringed on its patents that cover extensible markup language technology.
Microsoft must remove custom-XML editing from Word or face a permanent injunction barring the company from selling recent versions of the software, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled.
Microsoft has been given until January 11 to remove the custom XML …
