Should a user need to know every limitation of a system before using it? Imagine the training & knowledge needed before using any modern system?
New Offices
OPS Active have moved – After 9 months of being squashed, squeezed and struggling for space, we finally moved into our new office. More space to grow, bright clean open workspaces and only an 8 minute commute
Force Windows 10 Upgrade
So Windows 10 is here and you still don’t have the update. If yo do not yet have the “Notify you when ready”, then this simple guide should get you going in the right direction. Please remember that with any major Windows update you should backup ALL your important information before updating. Force Windows 10 Update Open windows explorer and …
Jurrasic World combining Offline and Digital
It seems today is all about Dragons, Loch Ness Monster and Dinosaurs. If you happen to be passing through London Waterloo station you will see that The Jurassic World Marketing team have literately taken over the concourse. Just in case the massive 40m long x 3m high full motion digital screens don’t manage to capture your attention, they have added some …
Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry
Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry I don’t often share this kind of motivational stuff but there are times when people just make sense and have the same kind of views as you do. Matt Corddry who is the director of Facebook hardware engineering, sums up my thoughts in a short Tech Crunch “Inside Jobs” interview. Here are a few of his quotes if you don’t have time …
My Week with Bing
During a recent trip to the United States I realised how many people use Bing as their primary search engine. This got me thinking, our team always set the default engine on all devices we give out and deliver to use Google. This is just the status quo, we have been doing this for years and never questioned it.
Intel and Dreamworks CES 2014
One of the most impressive talks came from Kate Swanborg of Dreamworks Animation. Kate has been with Dreamworks through releases like Shrek, Madagascar, The Croods, A Sharks Tale and the last release Turbo. During her speech we got an insight into the processing power and time needed to produce these movies and how they come to life. She also spoke …
TweetShirt CES 2014
CES 2014 brought the Social Media Vending machine right into the think of it. “IF” you could get an internet connection you could theoretically tweet the machine with a special tweet plus a code and it would dispense a t-shirt for you. It worked really well for me but the machine did have a few moment of confusion. Something to …
The New Digital Age Giveaway
I have a copy of “The New Digital Age” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen which I would like to pass on. What better way than to give it to one of our readers! So All you need to do is “Like” & “Share” our Facebook page (its quite new). I will pick one random Like and send you the …
Office 365 One step forward two steps back
A few weeks back Microsoft started upgrading Office 365 Tenants to the new Admin and exchange system. Whilst this comes with a few cosmetic tweaks they have once again failed to address key concerns that have been running around for the last 2 years like, Directory Sync issues and the complete lack of management if you are Federated without an …