10 Tips For Disaster Recovery Planning

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

Devise a disaster recovery plan – It’s important to start with the basics and add to the plan over time.  To begin, define what is important to keep the business running – i.e. email and application access, database back-up, computer equipment and the “recovery time objective” or how quickly the ...

Tips for helping the environment

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

We thought we would share some ideas we have had with you so that you could consider implementing them yourselves in your effort to take care of the world...or even just have a clean conscience! Save Paper: Email invoices rather than print them, saves the paper and an envelope and is maybe ...

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 ...

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 ...

5 Tips for Safe Tweeting

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Below we've put together 5 tips that we think will help you to ensure a safe Twitter experience! Think about what you tweet before you tweet!  At the moment there's no way of deleting or removing and public tweets. Personal Information - never share any personal information (phone numbers, house address, ...

PC Toolbox Quick Tips

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Over on the PC Toolbox site we have started a regular posting of Quick Tips. Every Friday one of the Brandstar Team will write a quick tip, something to make life a bit easier, or maybe some generally useful information that we find our clients don't know and want to ...