Secunia – Online Software Inspector

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Secunia's Online Software Inspector (OSI) inspects your operating system and software for insecure versions and missing security updates.  By ensuring your machine is fully up-to-date you help prevent your software against security issues. The tool is very easy to use... Visit the Secunia OSI Website Click Start Scanner Look at your results (see example ...

Install LogMeIn

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

LogMeIn is a piece of software commonly used by technicians for remote support.  Here's a tutorial to help you install the program. Firstly, your IT support technician will have emailed over a link for you to download/install LogMeIn.  Click on the link. The below page will then appear.  Type in a relevant ...

LogMeIn

Monday, January 18th, 2010

LogMeIn is a tool which we've been using for a while now at Brandstar.  It allows us to have remote control of clients PC's all over the world...as long as they have an Internet connection. All our clients need to do is download and install the software as requested by ...

XP Users – Welcome to Windows 7 (1)

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Here at Brandstar we've become massive fans of the new Windows 7, after having a copy in the office for a good few weeks now we've been able to have a good play with it.  We think it's time for all XP users to take a step forward and upgrade ...

AVG 9 – Out Now + Installation Tips

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

AVG have now released their new range of anti-virus software!  We've been impressed by AVG 9 so far and think it's worth downloading...after all it's essential that your computer has the most up to date virus protection available to keep it safe and secure. It's a free upgrade for all ...

Go To Assist

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Go To Assist is a tool which we have begun to use recently with clients.  The program allows us to access clients machines remotely.  This means that, with your permission, we can control your machine from anywhere with an Internet connection.  If we ever needed to access your machine remotely ...

Address Book Database with Label & Email Newsletter Features

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I have come across a number of people that need a simple tool to manage their address list (usually for Christmas Cards!) with the ability to easily print labels. So I decided to put together a simple Microsoft Access database that can be used for just that, plus the ability ...