Latest Petri article published - managing printers in Windows 2008 R2!

Tom Finnis — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:02:16 +0100

Part one of a two part series is now available on the Petri website here

Better Browsers

Administrator — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:21:18 +0100

Browser
Website
Description
Operating System Compatibility

Camino
caminobrowser.org
Camino is a Mac OS X-native browser built on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users.

8 very unusual computer viruses!

Aneta Sokolowska — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:35:31 +0100

The Ambulance Virus

Infections to laugh about

This is the third post on the malware topic we covered in the last few weeks. This time we have decided to share with you something of a light-hRead More...

The consequences of not knowing your antivirus

Aneta Sokolowska — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

In our previous post we discussed the difference between malware and viruses and gave you a few tips on how to recognise if your cRead More...

Are You One of the Infected?

Aneta Sokolowska — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:43:33 +0100

This post is the first out of three articles focusing on malicious software. Here, we will explain the difference between malware and viruses and point out some of the symptoms of an infected PC.

Computer infections are not new. They have probably existed as long as there has been software; in fact the first known computeRead More...

9 tips to prolong your laptop and mobile battery life while traveling

Aneta Sokolowska — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Prolong battery life on your Laptops / Mobile Devices

Although mobile devices continue to become more and more powerful, battery technology hasn’t kept up at the same rate so the chances are you’ve found yourself lacking power at a critical moment at some point. For the frequent traveller a second battery is usually the best option (aRead More...

Installing Ubuntu on an existing Windows PC

Mustafa Suleman — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:12:10 +0100

I decided to install Ubuntu on my existing Windows PC with a dual boot option which would allow me the option to access my Windows 7 operating system.

Ubuntu is a super-fast, reliable and virtually crash free operating system that isn’t susceptible to viruses and malware. Installation is quite straightforward it just invoRead More...

iLife Suite :: Best Applications

Phillip Knowles — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:46:53 +0100

The iLife Suite of applications provided with a new Mac (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and Garage Band) are easy-to-use, well-designed solutions for performing their respective functions. Even novice users can get up and running quickly with these applications so they can spend their time 'doing' rather than worrying 'how to get it done.

'iPRead More...

Happy Christmas from help4IT

Administrator — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:49:21 +0100

We would like to take this chance to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas from help4IT!

Outlook 2011 for Mac will not connect to Exchange 2003

Tom Finnis — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:56:49 +0100

Office for Mac 2011 is due for release at the end of October 2010 and reviews from the Beta testers have generally been very positive. A "new" edition to the suite is Outlook 2011, previous versions of Office for Mac had Entourage, which was an Exchange compatible mail/PIM client but even Microsoft didn't feel it was worthy of the name Outlook. Entourage usRead More...

help4IT - Top 10 Free Microsoft Windows PC Applications and Programs

Thu, 06 May 2010 10:57:07 +0100

help4IT Top 10 Free Microsoft Windows PC Applications and Programs
Get more from your Microsoft Windows PC with our top 10 list of the best free Microsoft Windows PC Applications and programs.

This week’s blog is continuing the theme from last week’s posts of free applications, but this week (drum roll please) for the Microsoft Windows PC.

There really is a plethora of alternative pc applications and programs for the pc available without sacrificing functionaliRead More...

help4IT - Top 10 of the best free Google Android Applications

Administrator — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:00:56 +0100

help4IT Top 10 of the best free Google Android Applications
Get more from your Apple iPhone with our top 10 list of the best free Google Android Applications.

Google Android is the newest kid on the block but has certainly made a big impact. The open source mobile operating system has already built up a strong and loyal fan base in the short time it has been available. There are some great applications out at the moment and the future is certainly looking bright for the mobile fRead More...

help4IT - Top 10 of the best free Apple iPhone Applications

Administrator — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:00:32 +0100

help4IT Top 10 of the best free Apple iPhone Applications
Get more from your Apple iPhone with our top 10 list of the best free Apple iPhone Applications.

The Apple iPhone has quickly become one the most popular handsets around, with its stunning user interface and a massive market place of paid and free applications growing at exponential rates every day it is one the most desirable handsets amongst mobile phone users. The phone unit itself is a testament to Apples design skillsRead More...

help4IT - Top 10 of the best free Blackberry Applications

Administrator — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:58:29 +0100

help4IT Top 10 of the best free Blackberry Applications
Get more from your Blackberry with our top 10 list of the best free Blackberry Applications.

The Blackberry or Crackberry as it has been dubbed has a strong user base especially amongst the business community. Featuring a simple user interface and built in qwerty keyboard on some of the models, it can make an excellent tool for mobile productivity when you don’t want to use or carry a laptop.

The majority of BlaRead More...

help4IT - Top 10 of the best free Windows Mobile Applications

Administrator — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:54:45 +0100

help4IT Top 10 of the best free Windows Mobile Applications
Get more from your windows mobile with our top 10 list of the best Windows Mobile Applications.

Windows Mobile has often been over looked what with all the publicity and uproar surrounding the iPhone and Android fanfare. What is often forgotten is that Windows Mobile has been around longer than both the aforementioned and has a great back catalogue of both free and paid for applications.

Microsoft .NET Compact FrRead More...

new day new blog

Administrator — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:35:04 +0100

Well what can we say, no blog postings since November but hopefully we be able to address this with some great postings over the next few months now that Christmas and Easter are out of the way.

To kick off the new year we thought of giving you all a very late present with 4 articles with some of the best free mobile applications available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile.

Enjoy.

How to remove old NICs after virtualization

Tom Finnis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:37:35 +0100

After performing a physical to virtual conversion one of the tasks you have to do is to set the IP address of the new virtual NIC. When you do this you then get a warning message saying the IP is already assigned to the physical NIC, Windows 2008 is better than 2003 as it at leasts removes it from the old NIC for you.

All the same this seems a bit illogical, that physical NIC is no longer connected to the server so why should it keep the details? Also it can cause confusion for somRead More...

Unable to activate Windows after virtualization

Tom Finnis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:39:37 +0100

I've been migrating a client to vSphere 4 this weekend and have encountered this problem with all their servers, and its not the first time either so I thought I should share the solution.

This is most common with Dell servers and their so called "OEM" licensing, and its another one of their sly cost-saving measures that you dont notice until they really cause you a hassle. To elaborate a bit more, you may or may not be aware that OEM stands for Original Equipment ManufactureRead More...

Outlook 2007 Reminder not Working

Meraj Khalid — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:56 +0100

Below are instructions that might help you to resolve outlook reminder pop up problems.

As Microsoft already defined a normal procedure to resolve this issue but in some situations this solution doesn’t work so probably follow Procedure two which I am going to define in this article.

Please first check the basic configuration of the Outlook.

Please check whether the Display the reminRead More...

How to access the local console on ESXi 4.0

Tom Finnis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We've just acquired a pair of HP DL380 G6s for our vSphere 4 test lab, they have the new Intel Nehalem Xeon CPUs and chipset with all the latest virtualisation features. Plenty more to come on all that but first of all here's something you won't find in the documentation. Having just installed the ESXi 4.0 hypervisor on the servers the classic question came up from one of the junior technicians - "what's the difference between ESX and ESXi?". Someone else then answered that ESXi doesn't have Read More...

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