Xerox Error Code 005-285

This morning I went down to pick up some printing and found our Xerox printer flashing a 005-285 error code. The document feeder was not feeding paper, so I had a look and found that this is the error: Xerox Error Code 005-285: An error…

PicLens a browser slideshow

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. With just one click, PicLens makes photos come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. PicLens suports a number of sites: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums,…

Office live vs Google Docs

Microsoft just launched Office live (beta), as open competition to google docs.The signup process for Office live is somewhat labourious  – and it could not be described as an easy process, however once you are logged into the service it is fairly simple. There are…

Windows Live SkyDrive

One of the most frequent problems we come up against in at work is people bringing in laptops that are dead/dying having not backed them up. Now you can backup, share or just store for access later all your pictures, videos and documents…for free with…

Upgrading (& migrating) SugarCRM

We have been trying to upgrade from the 5 beta version of sugar’s community edition to the full released 5.0 version. In theory this is a very simple proposition and within the admin interface there is an upgrade option where the software will find any…

ThinkPad X300 to Rival MACBook Air

The chinese company Lenovo bought the struggling giant IBM in 2005 and is now close to releasing the new ThinkPad X300 which is set to rival the so talked about MACBook Air. I know if you are a MAC user you will just say “pff…