In today’s hectic business world the topic of real-time collaboration, where colleagues, client and business associates can share screen remotely to review presentations or key documents, is hot on the agenda. Not only do these tools provide a quick and easy way to interact, they can enable making smarter decisions, help win the deal and save you both time and money in doing so – what more can you ask!
Even better a number of the established players in this market space offer FREE – yep it’s that word again – for hard pressed 
businesses, consultants and entrepreneurs to take advantage of enterprise class tools to helping you getting instant productivity-boosting results. For example, how many miles do you drive each year for those 30-60 minute meeting walking through a presentation – when a teleconference and desktop sharing can achieve the same thing, with environmental benefits too.
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I’ve recently been made aware of a great new job-board IndustryJobs.co.uk that both helps job-seekers, to find their next position, and particulary recruiters, to advertise their vacancies whether permanent roles or short-term contracts.
There is a free introductory offer on at the moment for all posts of new jobs, which make it a great solution for small and large businesses alike. As well as jobs advertised on the site itself, there is also a dynamic feed showing jobs from other leading UK job boards as well. The key advantage this site might have for your roles is the great domain name from a search engine optimisation perspective – it will be interesting to see where it ends up in Google and Yahoo’s results lists
IndustryJobs is based on the free open-source JobberBase solution and 
looks a great implementation.
Just upgraded my desktop PC to Windows 7 and had no problem setting up a shared printer, in my case Canon IP4500 inkjet.
My problem arose when I tried to get an older XP laptop to access the shared printer attached to the Windows 7 desktop PC.
The trouble was down to my Windows 7 desktop PC having new 64 bit drivers that were not compatible with the older 32 bit XP operating system on my laptop. I could find the printer from the laptop – via Control Panel>Printers>Add Printer>A Network Printer.., but the software drivers were not compatible with my old PC and, to make things worse, my Windows 7 desktop wouldn’t allow me to install the older drivers either.
The solution turned out to be first installing the required printer drivers on the XP laptop as a locally installed (even though it wasn’t!) and then changing the port attached to this new printer to a new network port equivalent to the address of the Windows 7 shared address. Read more…
Many small businesses and their employees can still work from home, if only they had access to their work PC.
If you are in this situation LogMeIn Free could be just what you are looking for to keep you working and avoid costly time off or loss of business. This is especially the case in the UK right now as we are in the grip of this winter’s hash weather.
LogMeIn are leading providers of professional remote access software, often
used by big business. Not enryone knows however that they also have a free solution that can provide remote access to any PC or Mac from any other Internet connected computer – so long as their software has previously been installed on the computer you want to access. Read more…
More than 1 in 20 of the 
people who read this blog are likely to suffer a data loss in the next twelve months. These are the startling statistic quoted by the company behind my preferred off-site, on-line backup solution – Mozy.
6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year ?
Unfortunately, there are numerous ways you can lose vital information, 
hard disk failure, laptop getting dropped or stolen, accidental deletion and data corruption to name a few.
That’s where automated online backup solutions such as Mozy provide great piece of mind, especially as their FREE accounts provide up to 2GB of storage. Read more…
Need to edit those photos, but can’t get your hands on a top-notch editing suite like PhotoShop, well Pixlr may be the answer. What’s more there is nothing to install, you can use it anywhere you can get an Internet connection with a Flash enabled browser as it a cloud-based application.
Images can either be started from scratch, uploaded from your computer or from another website when you begin. Read more…
We all know about the value of a good backup strategy for our own local computers – more often than not only when it’s too late and you’ve lost that vital document or picture. I’ll be writing about Mozy in the next few days – my preferred online backup solution for my PC’s data – but what about all that information you’ve uploaded in to the Web 2.0 Internet cloud over the past few years?
For the non-techies out there I’m talking about FaceBook, PhotoBucket, Google Docs, Twitter and Flickr and the like. These sites now contain Gigabytes of YOUR data – so what would do if it every got lost or corrupted?
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Thanks to NeoEase, I’ve started the site design of this new site from the iNove theme available from the WordPress Theme pages.
Out-of-the-box there is the capability to add widgets to the separate North, East, South and West sidebars or hide the sidebar’s from all pages. However, for my layout I preferred to lose the “split” East and West sidebar’s altogether.
Just in case anyone out there is after the same thing, this is how I did it!
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Many people out there would love to get an insight in to how popular an Internet search terms is, particularly if that search word or phrase is relevant to their personal blog, website or company.
For those of you out there who haven’t found it yet, Google Insight is a great too for doing just that. By way of example the chart below tracks the interest in the phrase “credit crunch” in real-time for the past few years – given the downward trends perhaps this is not the best time to start this website one might ask!
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Welcome to Credit-Crunch.co.uk. This is our first post, but expect more over the coming weeks and months.
Our aim is to keep you posted on news ways to beat the crunch.
As you would expect with a blog, your feedback is always welcome as to both the quality of the content and new suggestions to make ends meet.
