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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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Over the past few weeks we've been running both Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) and FileHippo. Both pieces of software are designed to scan your PC to identify whether an programs are out of date, thus providing you with increased security. As we've been using the programs for a while ...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Today is my penultimate attempt to convince XP users that the transition from XP to Windows 7 is worth it! In this blog I'll discuss the differences in Customise and Personalise, Managing Programs and Windows Update.
Customise and Personalise
There is a huge emphasis on customisation in Windows 7 and it really ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
The Followthis.info site has been updated, now when you shorten a website link (URL) you have the option of customising the ending. This means that if it is a link that you use regularly then it should be easier to remember. For example, both of the links below redirect you ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Recently at Brandstar we have had a larger number of clients & new clients than usual come to us with infected machines, all running some for of AntiVirus and it still got through. Needing our support to help them remove the trojans that were on the system and incurring an ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
A way to get more traffic (hits) to your website is to maximize the potential of your pictures being picked up on Image Search Engines (e.g. Google Image Search). This Blog will give you 15 Tips to help you maximise your websites traffic potential. In some Web Search Engines some ...
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