May Madness - when will it end??
4 June, 2010
Back in May, we officially went Mad, offering FREE setup for 5 of more mailboxes of ExchangeDefender email sanitation and archiving.
It seems everyone loves it when we go crazy! Due to the great response we had, we've decided to extend our offer into June. But hurry, this is only available for a limited time! Call us before the end of June to receive nearly $350 dollars' worth of setup, absolutely FREE.
Truly Mobile
2 June, 2010
Do You Have Mobile Email and Web Access? If not then why not join the masses!
Many of you will already have remote access to email when using a laptop or a home PC, but these days using your mobile phone to do it is so much easier.However, you have a big decision to make. What kind of phone will you use? There are 3 main choices - Windows Mobile devices, BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone. There are others but these are the main players at the moment.
Windows Mobile devices work well but can be a little trickier to setup. Once setup you will have good access to email, contacts, calendar, the ability to open Microsoft Office documents, web browsing etc.
BlackBerry claim to offer the best mobile email experience and this is hard to refute. However, for it to work properly you really do need the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software running within your organisation. This is yet another system that needs to be managed and maintained.
And then there is the iPhone. It seems that almost everybody you see walking around staring at a phone these days is using an iPhone. They are definitely the easiest of all devices to setup to talk to Exchange servers. As an email device they work well, calendaring is supported but there are a few shortfalls, like not being able to snooze a calendar alert. Web browsing works well but the big downfall here is Apple's refusal to support Flash. So if you need to visit websites that use Flash then the iPhone is not for you. The BIG attraction for the iPhone is the fact that there is "an app" for almost everything. They are fun gadgets and simply very "cool".
The right handset for you is really based on what you will be accessing, whether you want a "real" keyboard etc. Correct Solutions can assist you with making the right decision and with setting up your handset once you have it.Picture perfect
2 June, 2010
Do you do your marketing in-house?
Sometimes the hardest thing, aside from creating good copy, is deciding on a suitable image to accompany your written work. Then there is the headache of having to try and edit it - if you don't have Photoshop it can be tricky to get the results you're after.
Recently we've come across a couple of things which may make life a lot easier for the typical desktop publisher looking to make their marketing strategies a little more colourful.
The Microsoft Office Ribbon plug-in for iStockphoto.
iStockphoto is a member-generated image and design community, offering access to literally millions of safe, royalty-free photographs, vector illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash files. The images are affordable to purchase and with so many photos available there is bound to be something that suits your campaign.
If you're a Microsoft Office user (and there's a few of you out there), then the free iStock Ribbon plug-in lets you search for and insert iStock images directly into your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, straight from inside the applications themselves.
The iStock Ribbon is currently available for Windows-based computers. While it will work with Microsoft Office 2007, the powerful graphics handling built into Office & PowerPoint 2010 will give you even greater flexibility when it comes to image manipulation. Download the plug-in here and install it on your machine to get started. If you have an existing iStock account, you'll be able to search directly from PowerPoint or Word!
Photoshop OnlineThe other very nifty tool that has made a blip noise on our radar is photoshop.com. this is a "cloud based" application, where you can upload photos and carry out photo manipulation. It has all the basic stuff like crop, resize, red-eye and colour saturation, as well as some more advanced features like sharpen or soft focus, distort and sketch.
While it doesn't have all the features of Photoshop, it is worth a look if you do not have Photoshop installed on your PC but would like to be able to play around with images.
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