Exciting times ahead – Essex IT Discuss

 

 

If you’ve seen our monthly newsletter you’ll know by now about our new Kaseya support system. We’re rapidly rolling this out across all sites we support. Kaseya is very exciting for Softlink as it marks a large investment both financially and time-wise.

Both my newsletter and Nicola’s follow up told you all about what Kaseya will do for us now, but from a webinar last week I have learned of a whole host of new tools coming up in the next few months.

One feature I’m particularly excited about is our ability to track your smartphones. We already support Blackberry, Android and iPhone on an ad-hoc basis, but this new feature will allow us to track your smartphones geographically, setup email accounts,  backup data and remote wiping (bricking) if phones are lost or stolen.

There will be a lot more to hear from us over the coming months with Kaseya, so stay tuned!

If you have any questions or suggestions or anything you’d like to see us offering, leave a comment or give us a shout over on twitter.

 

Avoiding Spam – Essex IT Discuss

You see a competition on a website that you would like to sign up for, then a money off voucher for a meal out, ooh, and a free cinema trip! Isn’t the internet a wonderful place! All you need to do to get access these wonderful things is hand over your email address.

Simple! Or is it…

Fuel cost saving apps – Essex IT discuss

Fuel is an expensive commodity these days, and with a further rise due in April we’ll all want to be filling up as cost effectively as possible.  Why not let your smartphone help out? There are plenty of apps on the market, here are a few to get you started:

 

My Gas – Free

 

 

What they say:

“provides you with a – user generated – database to quickly search for the closest and cheapest gas station around!”

- featured in the Sunday Times, BILD & MSN for “Top 10 apps to save you money”!

 

 

Petrol Finder – £0.59p

 

 

What they say:

“Find Petrol, Diesel or LPG prices stations in your local area.

In addition to finding the closest stations you’ll also get the last reported fuel prices at that station.”

 

 

 

Petrol Prices Pro – £2.99

 

 

What they say:

“PetrolPrices Pro is the official iPhone application from PetrolPrices.com. Use your current location to find the cheapest, most up-to-date petrol prices in your area.”

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Obviously Softlink Solutions cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information contained in these apps, but speaking from a personal perspective I have used My Gas (the free app) and I haven’t found any problems with it. I am not sure of the availability of these apps for Android or Blackberry, check your relevant app store for details.

If you’ve come across a great fuel cost app for any mobile device, leave the details in a comment or give us a shout over on twitter…we’d love to hear from you!

Weathering work disruption – IT Essex discuss

How has the snow affected your business this week? Are you at a standstill? Do you have staff stranded at home? Is your office unmanned?

It’s snowing like crazy here but it’s business as usual at Softlink Solutions…well, sort of.