Author Archives: Francis Reid

Multi Monitor / Display and Taskbar Shortcuts

Here are a few shortcuts which you may find handle in day to day work. Win + Spacebar Aero desktop peek, just like that small rectangle at the right bottom corner next to the time display. Win + Left Arrow … Continue reading

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Winter weather and working from home

Mark recently posted about working from home, with the current cold snap this is an excellent option for lots of people, instead of getting stuck in snow or traffic, and keeps work productivity up. See his post here – http://www.simblox-tech.co.uk/working-from-home/ … Continue reading

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Office for Mac 2011

Office for Mac is being released shortly, this version of Office will have Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook instead of Entourage.  http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products Release date has not been mentioned yet.

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BT Broadband outage

SERVICE STATUS UPDATE: There is currently a broadband outage affecting Scotland, North England & Northern Ireland BT is currently working on a resolution. Updates to follow

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New AVG 2011

The latest version of AVG has recently been launched, AVG 2011 provides the ultimate protection for everything you do online.  Simblox is currently testing the new version and will be rolling it out to clients in the near future.  For … Continue reading

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