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Passwords on a noticeboard ?
Just reading the breaking news about the French TV station that got hacked by ISIS and taken off air for several hours – turns out it may have been caused by passwords visible on TV during an in-house interview!
Lesson to be learned there – how many of your passwords or logins are visible to visitors, couriers, customers, cleaning staff, etc ?
Faster Invoicing
An association with a membership of several hundred mentioned they were invoicing memberships fees manually. It was taking days to complete, was prone to typos and costing postage. We setup a new system using their existing Word, Excel and Outlook so they could automatically generate a standard invoice from members’ details charges and email out directly.
It only took a couple of hours to setup;
- has saved days of time
- has saved £100’s in postage, stationery
- is much more accurate
Faster invoicing means better cashflow – sometimes its just about getting the basics right.
Memory Sieve
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 17.0 keeps re building content and effects at startupEvery time you start Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2019 (this is version 17.0 build 20180830.m.125874) you get a message and progress bar showing Building Content and Effects. This can take 2-3 minutes to complete and PhotoShop Elements isn't responsive until it completes. Almost looks like the app has frozen at times. It completes and you can […]
- Adding a Mitel 5201 phone to a 3300 controllerPreviously we've been able to just change the MAC address on the 3300 controller when we swapped out faulty phones, but had some problems with that recently. The phones were appearing on DHCP and in the unprogrammed IP phones list (see under Maintenance > IP Telephone Inventory) but weren't actually picking up the extension number.The […]
- Dell OptiPlex 7070 external speaker humming with Realtek audio driverThe external speaker on my Dell OptiPlex 7070 SFF starts humming every few minutes. A quiet low level, deep hum. Sounds a little like the speaker is vibrating on the desk. You can clear it by playing some audio or clicking the volume control button to make it ping. This is happening on Windows 11.The […]
- HP ProDesk 400 offline missing ethernet network adapterPossibly the strangest call for a while ... a cat stepped on the keyboard and the computer went offline! Tried all the obvious fixes for airplane mode, reset network, troubleshoot network, BIOS, etc, then spotted there was no ethernet device in the Network Adapters section of the Device Manager. Just the WAN Miniport drivers. You […]
- Outlook 2016 with Gmail keep getting prompted for "Sign in with your Google account" IMAPOutlook 2016 loads up with a Google Gmail or Googlemail account configured and imediately prompts with a Sign in with your Google account prompt. It happens as soon as the Send/Receive runs to download new messages. You might see error 0x800CCC0E Outlook cannot synchonize subscribed folders. If you login, it prompts to authorise Microsoft, which […]