A safe way to share files
More and more businesses need a safe and secure way to share files. E-mail is seen as cumbersome and unreliable and in some cases where the file attachments are large, impractical if not impossible. Necessity is the mother of invention, so, out of necessity and in...
What’s the difference between Collabor8online and SharePoint?
"If you were to order a garden shed and your supplier delivered you a garden shed–that would be Collabor8online. If your supplier delivered you some wood, with instructions on how to put it together, that would be SharePoint." We're not attempting to be overly...
Simply Share Documents Online
How do you simply share documents? Online, presumably, We all share documents by email, but that can be so messy, different versions, different people copied in, little control. Easy yes but reliable? Definitely not. Some people turn to Dropbox, See Why is...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there
I just read an interesting post about embracing new technology. It was a simple story with a powerful message. "Once upon a time there was a small business working away quite nicely. Business was steady, customers were happy and they had been doing things in the same...
VC Fred Wilson says By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google and Facebook Will
First of all, who is Fred Wilson? Well, he's a venture capitalist based in New York and a pretty successful one at that. What's more (with apologies to any venture capitalists who happen to be reading this post) unusually, he seems to know what he’s talking about :-)...
Minister quits over difficulties with housing
Let's face it it must be difficult managing 2 properties. You've got the council tax issues, insurance, mortgage repayments, and as we know, you've got to be ever so careful when you're calculating the interest...
The End XP as we know it
So that's it then, Windows XP is gone!. Not just resting as was the parrot of Monty Python fame, but rather extinct, defunct, kaput. “Bereft of life it lives no more” .. Sorry, Monty Python again. Surely, only Microsoft could make (and cause) such...
Has the Penny finally dropped?
In March 30 new companies signed up to Collabor8online more or less one a day! (still 2 days to go!) Firstly, welcome to our new clients and a big thank you for making March a record month. To cater for this increased demand we have provisioned additional server...
Sometimes a “to do” task needs a bit more
Some tasks are easy to define, “don't forget the milk", "pick up the dry cleaning" or "remember to send the invoice". But sometimes, the instruction needs to be a little bit more precise. It's always difficult to make instructions foolproof, because fools can...
5 REAL WORLD tips
On how online project management helps your business. 1. You know where everything is. Most of us gave up on filing paper years ago, this was replaced by the PC/network/fileserver folder, My Documents, My stuff, My Projects etc trouble is, your office...