Your staff no longer want a company phone - they are fed up with carrying both their company and personal phones on them and want to use one device - and one that they can choose themselves - for all their communication. They want to keep the same phone number if they leave your business [...]
At Pro Drive we do feel obliged to ensure we are 'early adopters' of the latest technology - learning it early before our customers start using it. However there is always a certain sense of trepidation when moving to new software as soon as it is released, especially one we use almost constantly throughout the [...]
Cloud IT services are now an established part of the IT picture for most UK businesses. The latest figures from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) show that 84 percent of UK businesses are using some form of cloud service, with 78 percent using two or more cloud services. One of the key reasons used to [...]
Following the news this week leaked from China that Samsung is planning to release a foldable smartphone screen early next year, we at Pro Drive have been musing over what their impact will be. The obvious outcome is that the larger smartphone screens this technology enables will likely render tablets unnecessary – creating a welcome [...]
Starting a new document by using an old one as a template You can start a new document in Office 2013 by copying one you worked on recently. Simply click on File >Open > Recent Documents Edit a PDF in word No need for expensive PDF editing tools such as Adobe Acrobat. You can now do [...]
When analysing the findings of our recent Pro Drive customer survey, reaching out to all technology users at our clients, a common theme emerged very quickly - the biggest frustration people had was the speed of their PCs. Whilst it was not a surprise to us that it featured in the survey, the fact it [...]
I was initially a little nervous about writing this article as it has the potential to be somewhat contentious. However it does describe a genuine issue we see again and again in many businesses across many diverse sectors. It can at best be responsible for holding back the development of a business, but often also [...]
Some time ago we wrote an article on connecting your computer to a display with wireless. Whilst at Pro Drive we are normally big advocates of practicing what we preach, in this case we didn't stick to our values. However after some recent 'cable frustration' we finally saw sense and purchased a Microsoft Wireless Display [...]
Websites play an incredibly important role in many of our businesses and more than ever form the first point of contact with both existing and prospective customers. And whilst many of us take the lead from experienced design professionals in creating our site, how often do we seek feedback on it? Peek is a new [...]
Bitcoin has been in the news recently for a number of reasons – the first security based on Bitcoin started trading in Stockholm on the 19th May 2015 and just over a year ago one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges went spectacularly bankrupt after the online theft of 850,000 bitcoins worth (at the time) around [...]
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