Category: SOHO tech

Understanding the new Facebook Timeline

Understanding the new Facebook Timeline

| December 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

The new Facebook timeline is taking New Zealand by storm, and is due to be released to the rest of the world later this week. If you need a little revision on the ‘tour’, or are finding it a bit confusing, here is a basic rundown on what the features are and how they work. [...]

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Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 3

Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 3

| November 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

This post is following on from a previous post on the same topic. Read Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 1 or Part 2 if you haven’t already. Create a page not a profile for your business. For one thing, it’s what Facebook tells you to do. According to Facebook’s terms of service, “Profiles represent individuals and must [...]

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Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 2

Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 2

| November 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

This post is following on from a previous post on the same topic. Read Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 1 here if you haven’t already.   Just because you have created a Facebook business page doesn’t mean that your customers know you’re there.   Encourage them to follow you on Facebook. Add a [...]

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Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 1

Personalised Facebook Pages for Business – Part 1

| November 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

So you have a business, and you want to tap into the social media market to do promote yourself. That’s cool, you’re definitely not the only company doing this. In fact, because Facebook has become so popular as a space for businesses to recruit customers, you might want to take a few notes from what [...]

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September 2011 Security Updates – Microsoft Video

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Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

Quote by Steve Jobs taken from the Stanford commencement address, June 2005: “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because [...]

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2Degrees Mobile settings to restore your iPhone personal hotspot after moving to 2 Degrees

Have you recently switched over to 2 Degrees Mobile with your iPhone and suddenly found that your Personal Hotspot setting has disappeared from the settings? Well the iPhone Personal Hotspot settings is what we call Carrier Specific so what that means is that when you move from Vodafone your Carrier settings change. Trouble is that [...]

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New Zealand iPhone carrier settings – 2 Degrees, Vodafone & Telecom

2Degrees Mobile Data – 2degrees iPhone APN Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network APN: internet Picture Messaging- 2degrees iPhone MMS Settings Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network APN: mms MMSC: http://mms.2degreesmobile.net.nz:48090 MMS Proxy: 118.148.1.118:8080 MMS Max Message Size: 614400 Tethering – 2degrees iPhone APN Settings > General > Network [...]

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SOHO Computer repairs – Malware Alert BlueFlare Antivirus Rogue

SOHO Computer repairs – Malware Alert BlueFlare Antivirus Rogue

| July 25, 2011 | 0 Comments

Blue Flare Antivirus is a rogue install from the same family as the Sysinternals Antivirus. Essentially it is another in a long line of programs which display fake scan information in an effort to relieve you of some money via your credit card when purchasing the supposed full version. Once Blue Flare Antivirus is running [...]

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7 Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance – SOHO Computer Repairs Mac Tips

7 Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance – SOHO Computer Repairs Mac Tips

| July 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

I stumbled upon this great post by Eliza over at http://macbook.installmacos.info on optimising your Mac performance and thought it definitely worth sharing. 1. First and foremost do not forget to completely shut down your system every 10-15 days if you cannot do so more frequently. By restarting or rebooting your Mac system you actually allow your machine [...]

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