Neighbourhood Watch!

Google map has added a new feature 'streetview'.

What is Street View?

Street View takes Google Maps to a new level, allowing you to visually explore and navigate a neighbourhood through panoramic street-level photographs.

What can I use Street View for?
Street View has a variety of practical uses. Using Street View you can easily find the exact location for your crucial meeting and the nearest coffee shop, plan a restaurant venue to meet friends for dinner, or find the best viewing spot for a marathon or carnival.

If you are moving house or re-locating, you can save time by exploring properties and their surrounding area in advance and also by looking up driving directions. Street View allows you to check out a hotel or holiday home before you book, and to explore different travel destinations around the world - or be a nosy neighbour!

Hidden within the Street View imagery in the UK will be well-known children's story book character "Wally" wearing his trademark blue trousers, red and white striped hat and jumper and walking stick. Rest assured Street View also features technology that automatically blurs both faces and licence plates!


Cool, how can I check it out?
http://maps.google.com/ type in your postcode, click search map, click on orange A, click on streetview.

Don't press F1

Another potential flaw with Internet Explorer - In short if you see F1 do not click on it. If you do call us and we can fix it for you.

Our advice for non clients - microsoft update..

Microsoft had released a security advisory related to the use of the F1 key while using its Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft says that the nature of the vulnerability is tied to “the way VBScript interacts with Windows Help Files when using Internet Explorer.” Unless and until that vulnerability gets patched, the workaround to protect yourself is simply to avoid using the F1 key:

If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user.

Free Office 2010 E-Book

For a limited time you can download this free e-book without stepping through any registration.

First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content.

Share it with your internal teams, partners, and customers!

You can download the e-book here. It's about 10.5 MB.

Thanks to Harry Brelsford for this information.

Office 2010 Free upgrade and April release

Microsoft have announced that the release date of Office 2010 (did you know it was on its way!!) is to be April.

for all of those people looking to purchase Office 2007 fear not as there is an upgrade path to the newer version and it is free of charge.

Generally, customers who intend to take advantage of the free Office 2010 upgrade program have to do the following:

1.Purchase or buy a qualifying Office 2007 product (with or without a new PC) from an authorized reseller between March 5 – September 30, 2010.

2.Install and activate Office 2007 by September 30, 2010.

3.Request the free upgrade to Office 2010 by October 31, 2010.

Office 2010 can be downloaded for free when it’s generally available, or customers can order a DVD for a fee.

The qualifying Office 2007 suite products and the corresponding free upgrade path to Office 2010 suite SKU:

•Office Home and Student 2007 -> Office Home & Student 2010
•Office Standard 2007 -> Office Home and Business 2010
•Office Small Business 2007 -> Office Professional 2010
•Office Professional 2007 -> Office Professional 2010
•Microsoft Publisher 2007 -> Microsoft Publisher 2010


In addition, the free Office 2010 upgrade product key must be requested by October 31, 2010 using the activated Office 2007 product Key and dated sales receipt. And, only one Office 2010 product per qualifying Office 2007 purchase, and the free upgrade licenses is limited to a maximum of twenty-five upgrades per person.

Be careful with Valentine's Day E-cards

Valentine’s Day is upon us again and whilst we are all thinking of what to buy our beloved, people are putting together e-scams to trick you into infection and ‘amazing cures’ offered at barmy prices.

Our tips for avoiding this are as follows:

Do you know the sender, if you don’t know the sender delete it! Legitimate companies have standard, obvious ways for you to recognize that an e-greeting is not a fraud.

For example, with Hallmark Greetings, the "from" area in the message header always shows "Ecard from Hallmark" as the display name and "ecards@hallmark.com" as the e-mail address.

Make sure you check both the display name and e-mail address of the sender.

Do not click any links when you are not sure of the sender or intent of an e-mail message.

Never download or click anything from an unknown source.

Our advice would be to purchase Malwarebytes. Although a free copy is available the purchased version comes with active protection disabling any potential threat before it takes out your machine!

If purchased through Nexus we will help you install and ensure it is configured correctly. To purchase click here.

This is a one time Valentine offer and limited until the 15th Feb 2010.

Warning of potential malware problem

We have had a high report of malicious emails being sent similar to the message below:

Dear customer!

Unfortunately we were not able to deliver your postal package which was sent on the 1st of December in time because the addressee's address is incorrect.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our department.

United Parcel Service of America.

Our advise is DO NOT open these type of emails, if you are unsure of whether the email is indeed legitimate please contact the support desk on 0844 888 3300 and we will verify the email for you.

Google launches Nexus Phone!!!

Google have launched their latest offering within the Smartphone market. The Nexus One Smartphone is aimed at the business-minded customer. The Android phone is manufactured by HTC and is touted as a nice addition to the consumer line-up of Android Smartphone’s although it does lack a physical keyboard.

The Nexus One features the newer Android OS (2.1)a much speedier processor (1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon).

Will it be a contester to the iPhone, time will tell, we hope so purely due to its name!

For further information visit googles site:

http://www.google.com/phone