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Hello and welcome to this weeks edition of Techie Tuesdays! We know we promised you a real nail-biter in the form of excel PivotTables, but we felt that given the requests we've had for a post on connectivity, this wou

]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 09:18:16 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Creating-a-static-IP Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Working With Excel Pivot Tables http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Working-With-Excel-Pivot-Tables  

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Techie Tuesdays! As promised, we'll be trying to get to grips with the knotty complexity of an Excel Pivot Table.

]]> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:05:53 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Working-With-Excel-Pivot-Tables Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays- Exporting your Gmail Contacts to Outlook http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Exporting-your-Gmail-Contacts-to-Outlook

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Techie Tuesdays! We know we promised you Pivot tables last week, and that you've been anxiously waiting by your monitors and refreshing your screen every 15 seconds; but due

]]> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:52:29 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Exporting-your-Gmail-Contacts-to-Outlook Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Working With Excel (Part 1) http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Working-With-Excel-Part-1

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Techie Tuesdays! This week we'll be dipping a toe into the confusing green swamp that is Excel, with a how-to on creating attractive charts.Graphs are a brilliant way of cry

]]> Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:46:43 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Working-With-Excel-Part-1 Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Automating Outlook (Part Three) http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Automating-Outlook-Part-Three

Hello, and welcome to Techie Tuesdays! This week, we'll be dealing with rule-setting in Outlook. More specifically, setting up the "defer" rule.

]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:07:49 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Automating-Outlook-Part-Three Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Automating Outlook (Part Two) http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/techie-tuesdays-automating-outlook-part-two

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Techie Tuesdays. In part two of our "Managing Outlook" series, we'll be looking at how you can better co-ordinate your inbox using colour-coding.

]]> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:05:08 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/techie-tuesdays-automating-outlook-part-two Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Automating Outlook (Part One) http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Automating-Outlook-Part-One

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Techie Tuesdays. As promised last week (and we always keep our promises), we will be working with Microsoft Outlook.

]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:22:55 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Automating-Outlook-Part-One Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Creating Office Macros http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Creating-Office-Macros

 

Hello and welcome to this weeks edition of Techie Tuesdays! As promised, we're finally going to be focusing on Macros, and how you can use them to perform onerous, mind-numbing tasks with just a few keys

]]> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:03:47 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Techie-Tuesdays-Creating-Office-Macros Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-Merging mail accounts in Outlook http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/techie-tuesdays-merging-mail-accounts-in-outlook

I know, I know.

]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:27:14 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/techie-tuesdays-merging-mail-accounts-in-outlook Matthew Oneill Everything you know about the cloud is wrong. http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/everything-you-know-about-the-cloud-is-wrong.

We won't lie, we're huge fans of the cloud. And while it's not without it's glitches, you'd be hard-pressed to find any sort of computing infrastructure that didn't ocassionally hiccup and panic the engineers a tad.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:43:40 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/everything-you-know-about-the-cloud-is-wrong. dora Techie Tuesdays-How to login remotely. http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/techie-tuesdays-how-to-login-remotely.  

Hello, and welcome to the second-ever edition of Techie Tuesday! Last week's post was received rapturously by both fans and critics, and as a result, this week will be more of the same, with a handy

]]> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:27:37 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/techie-tuesdays-how-to-login-remotely. Matthew Oneill Techie Tuesdays-How to share documents on your home network. http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/untitled-document  

Being the bastions of outstanding client support that we are, we thought it was high time we started acting like it on our blog.

]]> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:24:10 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/untitled-document Matthew Oneill Apple comes out top in tech support. http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/apple-comes-out-top-in-tech-support. Being fanatics of good tech support and the companies that provide it, we love it when companies turn their customer service around.

Historically, Apple has been known for lovely products accompanied by shoddy customer service.

]]> Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:38:04 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/apple-comes-out-top-in-tech-support. Matthew Oneill Office Warfare: 2010 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Office-Warfare-2010

http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Office-Warfare-2010 Matthew Oneill Apple and Adobe Flash, AHHHH! http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Apple-and-Adobe-Flash  

It’s fair to say that there is no loss of love between Apple and Adobe at the moment.

]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:23:38 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Apple-and-Adobe-Flash Matthew Oneill The Apple iPad: Round-up of the reviews http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/The-Apple-iPad-Round-up-of-the-reviews  

And so, at last the Apple iPad has arrived in the UK. Following the rumours, the hype, the troubled US launch and the volcano delayed UK release date the iPad is finally here.

]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:44:40 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/The-Apple-iPad-Round-up-of-the-reviews Matthew Oneill Women & Technology http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Women-and-Technology

http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Women-and-Technology Matthew Oneill 39th in the 2010 Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies! http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/39th-in-the-2010-Sunday-Times-100-Best-Small-Companies I'm pleased to report that the awards and recognition have continued. We've just been placed 39th in the 2010 Sunday Times 100 Best Small companies!!

You all know the Sunday Times, however you might not know the Best Companies organisation, the people behind these top

]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:38:24 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/39th-in-the-2010-Sunday-Times-100-Best-Small-Companies Matthew Oneill Ranked number 23 in the world! http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Ranked-number-23-in-the-world We have succeeded in making it into the 2010 MSP Mentor top 100 list, which highlights IT service providers that are excelling in the realm of managed services.

The Background

Managed Services and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are increasingly important to modern day IT support providers li

]]> Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:20:12 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/Ranked-number-23-in-the-world Matthew Oneill Poor data security could cost businesses £500,000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/poor-data-security-could-cost-businesses-500000 From April 6th, the government will impose fines of up to £500,000 for serious Data Protection Act breaches.

This is a major upscale in the power held by the Information Commission's Office (ICO) who currently only have the power to enforce security changes.

The move toward tougher penalties for data sec

]]> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:17:42 +0000 http://www.itlab.co.uk/blog/poor-data-security-could-cost-businesses-500000 Richard Adams