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New PPSR – What you need to know.
The federal government has launched the Personal Property Securities Register, which is intended to simplify the process by which business can register interest in goods supplied to clients. Here’s a few articles that should help explain what it means;
A general overview of PPSR – Hopgood Ganim
The Governments homepage for PPSR
Users of existing registers, such as Queenslands REVS system, should make sure their interests have been migrated to PPSR – Sophie Foster, The Courier Mail
If you are claiming retention of title, you now need to register your interest in order to enforce it – Hopgood Ganim
A general news story about the PPSR – Ben Butler, Sydney Morning Herald
A warning from Lawyers Walsh Halligan Douglass
Seeding your Managed Backup
Now that Shift Computer Solutions is taking care of your backups, we just need to build what we call a “seed” backup, which will be sent to our data centre. This backup will be loaded on our servers, so that your entire backup doesn’t need to be pushed there over the internet, because that would take far too long, and leave you vulnerable for a lot longer.
This video will walk you through the process of getting the Seed done. As you will see, it’s very easy!
How to caption a picture in Word 2010
Quite often after inserting a picture or image into a word document you will want to caption it. Captions make your document much more readable, and you also don’t have to be stuck with the boring old “figure 1.” as you can have the caption read whatever you want. Here’s how you do it.
1. Click the graphic.
The graphic become selected.
2. From the References tab’s Captions group, click the Insert Caption button.
A caption frame is placed below the graphic, and the Captions dialog box appears.
3. In the Caption text box, type the figure caption text.
You can remove any text that’s already there.
4. Select a position for the caption from the Position drop-down list.
The caption position is relative to the figure.
5. Click the OK button.
The dialog box closes, and the caption is applied to the figure.
6. If you want to change the caption, simply click the mouse in the caption text box and type a new caption.
Click anywhere outside the text box when you’re done.
7. To remove a caption, click the caption text box once to select it, and then press the Delete key.
The caption disappears.
Remember: The caption itself is a special type of text box, which is like a graphic image but contains text. It’s not grouped with the image, so if you move or resize the image, you have to move or resize the caption box, as well
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Why you would benefit from a network audit
A Shift Computer Solutions network audit will uncover everything you need to know to plan your technology for the next 1-3 years.
Read the Rest...iPhone Setup for Office 365
A simple video showing you how to configure your iOS device with your Office 365 account details.
Read the Rest...Always consider total cost of ownership
Considering what the lifetime cost of a new computer is will always save you money in the long run.
Read the Rest...Change your Facebook password immediately.
News out this week that authority tokens used by facebook apps to access peoples facebook profiles have leaked onto the internet hasn’t got a lot of mainstream coverage. While Facebook has fixed the security loophole, the problem remains that those authority tokens do not expire, and once leaked, are out there forever.
The good news is that changing your Facebook password resets ALL the authority tokens, making the ones that have already leaked out void and useless to potential hackers.
We are advising all our clients to immediately change their Facebook password to make sure full security of their account is maintained.
Computer Solutions
We called our business Shift Computer Solutions because we wanted to tell people right from the start that we do a whole lot more than just fix problems.
Providing solutions means listening to you to understand exactly what you need. Too often people are left with poor quality fixes to poorly understood problems. We look at your problems, but also your needs and the things you want to get done, and we supply a fully prepared solution.
Working with a solutions paradigm means you get much better value. Often issues you didn’t even realise might be a problem are resolved or avoided by the implementation of a quality computer solution. In the long run, this means lower support costs, less downtime and much improved productivity.
Contact mathew@shiftsolutions.com.au for more information on the solutions we can provide your business.
30 Days Free Technical Support
At the bottom of nearly every proposal we give to our clients, we mention that we include 30 days of free technical support. We thought we should explain exactly what that means, and why it is such a great benefit to our clients.
Post Installation Phone Support
We know, because we’ve been doing this for 15 years, that every client will have questions after they get new equipment installed. This is why we offer completely free phone support for 30 days after we install your new computer, laptop or other equipment. We take away the stress of not knowing those little differences that come with a new system. Just give our office a call, and one of our technicians (usually the same one who installed your equipment) will sort it out for you.
System Monitoring
We monitor your new computer, laptop or server for 30 days after installation to ensure everything runs smoothly. Plenty of our clients have “bought a lemon” elsewhere before coming to us, and so we take extra care to ensure your new equipment is flawless. If we detect any adjustments are necessary, we make them, so your new computer is perfectly tailored to suit your needs.
Security Updates
During the 30 days, we check and make sure your computer is properly secured and updated against all current threats. You avoid having to worry that your new computer wasn’t fully and completely configured when you got it. If you’re security conscious, talk to your technician about how you extend this protection to a full year.
