An interesting article over on the ClubSolutions web site got me thinking. Titled 'Utilizing Social Media at the Front Desk', the author offers some suggestions about the use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter by your early morning front desk staff. Specifically, allowing your front desk to post your clubs Facebook page as part of their shift duties.
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Microsoft have previously said that the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10- the version of Internet Explorer that will ship as part of the upcoming Windows 8- will be 'plug-in free'.
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The excellent PulseTec Solutions technical support team conveyed a quick story to me the other day that I thought would make for a good quick tip.
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The thing I am perhaps most excited about that is coming in Windows 8 is a new feature called Storage Spaces. Earlier this month, Microsoft published a blog post describing Storage Spaces, and what I read is giving me little excited geek chills. To save you from having to read their lengthy and somewhat technical post, here's a summary of what it is and why I think this will be one of the single greatest enhancements to Windows since the move away from the Windows 95 architecture.
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"This morning, we reached an important development milestone: the beginning of the 'Office 15' Technical Preview Program." So says PJ Hough, CVP of Development in the Microsoft Office division, in a blog post published today over at the Office Exec blog.
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Some years ago, I was onsite at a large council-run recreation centre performing a scheduled upgrade of their membership management system. It had been a while since I'd paid a personal visit to them, so I'd scheduled to spend a bit of time sitting with the club manager to go over any other technology questions or issues he had after the upgrade was finished.
As per my standard operating procedure, I performed an adhoc backup of their member data which I dumped into a temporary folder on their Windows Desktop before doing anything then confidently kicked off the upgrade procedure. About half way through, the screen flashed, then came up with the infamous Windows Blue-Screen-of-Death. My pulse went up a bit because the BSOD happened at a point in the upgrade where the database was being restructured, so I was concerned about the integrity of the data.
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It's looking like 2012 might just be the year of many things. I predict it will be the year of tablets, the year of Android, the year of Windows 8, and now I'm looking forward to it being the year of speedy WiFi.
There are a few rumblings around the tech traps that devices supporting the new IEEE 802.11ac WiFi standard will start hitting the market this year.
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Here's a quick tip that takes all of 30 seconds to implement yet can go a long way towards helping prevent you from inadvertently installing malware onto your computer. It's so quick in fact, it'll take you longer to read why you should do it than the process itself.
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