Do you seem to spend all your time at work dealing with email? Does email overload prevent you for doing more valuable, productive work? Is your inbox bloated by email you don’t really need to see? Do you struggle to separate important emails you need to deal with? If so, you should read on…. The [...]
We are increasingly finding that people wish to connect their PCs and tablets wirelessly to their TVs both for streaming videos and pictures at home but also increasingly for ad-hoc presentations and collaboration in the office environment. The world where you do not have to crawl under the meeting room desk looking for a monitor [...]
We have currently seen a new phishing focus, Apple device users. Just recently one of our clients received the following email privately From: Apple [mailto:secure@mysecureicloud.co.uk] Sent: July 2014 To: Matt Subject: Apple ID Temporarily Locked iCloud/Apple - matt This message is to inform you that your Apple Account (Your@emailaddress.co.uk) has been temporarily locked until you [...]
Google is a tool we all use every day. However not everyone knows that there are many other functions it can perform other than the basic search we all know and love. Here are a select few which the Pro Drive team like to use – we hope you find them useful too! Find specific [...]
We are often asked by our clients and prospective clients if and why they should consider hosting IT services in the cloud as opposed to running them onsite in a traditional manner. There are many good reasons to host of course but the discussion should also focus around whether it is right to host services [...]
There are few things that are more frustrating at work than trying to operate with a slow internet connection. We now work at such a high pace, with tighter deadlines than ever and with many people located in different places that having useable internet has gone from being a luxury to a necessity. Yet for [...]
If you like sport as we do at Pro Drive you may have a few fans wanting the chance to watch the impending World Cup in Brazil or The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow live whilst working on daily business activities. This could have an undesirable impact on your IT networks with live streaming known to [...]
Note-taking software has come a long way since the humble Notepad first appeared nearly 30 years ago with Windows 1.0. The advent of cloud and mobile computing has seen software in this market evolve substantially over the last few years and there is now a vast array of options on the market which, combined with [...]
Until not that long ago choosing a mobile device for your business was simple – it would be a Blackberry. Their messaging ability and more importantly the ability to deploy, manage and secure them in a business was light years ahead of the competition. However things change rapidly in the technology world and for many [...]
You will no doubt have read about the Heartbleed bug affecting some web based systems which was widely reported in the national press last week. There is a significant amount of confusing and often conflicting information about what action you may need to take. So here is the Pro Drive view on it: What is [...]
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