Posted by Brian David Simonds on Saturday, April 20, 2013,
It was 23:52 at night when a regular customer sent me a text saying
"disaster with my laptop, had to shut down quick then restarted Outlook will not open" as with most business people he is 100% reliant on email for communication.
I fired up my laptop and made a remote connection via LogMeIn and quickly found the cause was a corrupted profile which I repaired so my customer was back working in about 15 minutes.
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Posted by Brian David Simonds on Tuesday, April 9, 2013,
A customer who lives on a farm have converted a barn to a holiday let. Clients expected to have internet access while staying their but there were obstacles.
- The barn is too far away for a normal range extender to give a reliable connection
- Could not justify the expense a separate broadband line
- Laying cable would be difficult and expensive
- Being a farm with 3 phase supply meant powerline networking was not possible
The solution was to research range extenders that can be daisy chained by allowing...
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Posted by Brian David Simonds on Sunday, March 24, 2013,
A customer recently had 5 cameras and DVR installed on the understanding that they would be able to view them remotely on their mobile phones and via a web browser. However at then end of the install they were told that the installers could not make the necessary changes to the network to enable remote access. I was contacted and within a couple of hours they were able to view the cameras remotely via a phone app called TAPCMS as well as via a web browser.
The work required changes to their I...
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Posted by Brian David Simonds on Friday, March 22, 2013,
I have designed a new website
www.gt-ecom.com for company GT eCommerce who provide cloud based software for online selling through marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay or on custom web stores.
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Posted by Brian David Simonds on Monday, March 4, 2013,
Friday 5pm while out Christmas
shopping at I got a call from a customer who's broadband router had gone
down, BT said they would send a new router in the new year. With a pile
of work to do over the weekend a kids keen to get on-line the customer
needed a quicker solution. When I got home I picked up a spare router
hot footed it to the customers home and got them back on line by 7:30pm
the same day.
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Posted by Brian David Simonds on Monday, March 4, 2013,
I just launched a new website for a shop in Winslow
A Little Bit of Vinatge for which I did the photography as well as the web design.
The shop sells furniture, home accessories, vintage style clocks, local art and jewellery is well worth a visit as they are getting new stock daily.
If have some small items to sell also rent out glass pods in their busy shop so get in touch with Caroline or Dave.
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40 something IT Pro working in IT since 1990 my original training was in electrical engineering. I became self-employed in August 2011 after 29 years working in a large international company. Outside of work I am a keen photographer checkout my Flickr page www.flickr.com/staypuff
