Saturday, August 28th, 2010
At Brandstar we are massive fans of LogMeIn software. Here's why:
How much experience do we have?
We have only been using the LogMeIn software for a year at the time of writing but have a significant number of clients with the LogMeIn agent installed on their machines so we can offer ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
We've recently spent some time investigating & testing the possible online backup options and came across a brilliant back-up software called Spideroak. We're so impressed with the product that we are recommending Spideroak to any of our clients wanting an online backup service.
If you sign up with Spideroak today you ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Here are our top 10 free apps for Windows Users:
Malwarebytes - an easy-to-use, simple and effective anti-malware application which is designed to quickly detect, destroy and prevent malware. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect.
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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 ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Clients often ask us...is there a free and effective way for me to convert PDF's into a Word or Excel document?
We recently came across the websites 'pdftoword.com' and 'pdftoexcelonline.com', both of which provide impressive results and are by far the best of their kind (out of the free sites we've ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
For those who are wondering what the difference is...here you go...
Ideal For
Individuals who need access to a remote PC or Mac
Mobile and IT Professionals who need full access to remote PCs from any web-enabled device - with the ability to print, copy files and more It's just like ...
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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 ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Two simple answers:
It's only for home users and only one is allowed per household
Doesn't fully protect as it is only basic protection, especially when compared to AVG's other packages! Check out our comparison table!
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
The end is near for the support of AVG 7.5 so we wanted to inform users that an upgrade is required (free for the remaining length of your license)
AVG has been replace with a significant update (v8) and it has been out for a while, we have reviewed it here ...
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