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You may have been receiving a huge amount of email spam this morning from Clare Harding at Carters Packaging Ltd with an invoice attachment called Purchase Order 0000035394.doc Well, this is a virus and seems to be spreading around the internet like wild fire at the moment, so blacklist this email address: purchasing@carterspackaging.com NOTE Obviously this is an impersonation attack and …

Mimecast Outlook Client 6.1.1396.14780 Released

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Mimecast have now released version 6.1.1396.14780 of their Outlook Client. This version of the MSO client now provides the following: New features Single Sign On authentication. New intuitive Quick Search experience. Mimecast Quick Search bar now available under the Outlook search bar in Outlook 2013 onwards. Enhancements Significant performance improvements to the Continuity workflow. Changes to data storgae locations. %appdata% …

Apple / News

Apple iOS 9.1 Released

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Apple have now released a new update to their iOS software taking it up to version 9.1. According to the release notes within this update include some new features and improvements as well as the usual bug fixes that go into these update releases including the following: Live Photos now intelligently senses when you raise or lower your iPhone, so …

Guide / Microsoft

Manual Windows 10 Upgrade Guide

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We have posted a number of guides about automatically upgrading your computer up to Windows 10 using Windows Updates, however, if you are still having problems, there is one final way of manually going through the Windows 10 upgrade process. First of all, you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creator file which you can get from our downloads …

Guide / Microsoft

KB3035583 & KB2952664 – Windows Updates for Windows 7 SP1 – Pre-Req for Windows 10 Upgrade

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Following on from our post about forcing the Windows 10 update, we have had a few queries about the Windows 7 SP1 updates that you need to install before the Windows 10 update will start to download and install. These updates are KB3035583 & KB2952664 and they should automatically be available to you through Windows Update. However, this is not …

MSI / Guide

Google Earth Pro MSI Installer [2019 Updated]

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As most of you probably know by now, Google Earth Pro is now free to use for everyone. All you have to do is to install the software, enter a valid email address and enter the password as GEPFREE – this is great and a lot of people are now going ahead and using this. Mass Deployment If you want …

News

Website not displaying correcting in Internet Explorer

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It has been brought to our attention that visitors to our site using internet browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox etc are not having our website displayed correctly. This includes the side tab menus on the right hand side, the slider image on the main page and the sub drop down menus on the main menu bar. This is to …

MSI / Guide / News / Skype

Skype 7.13 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

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Skype version 7.13 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …

Guide / Adobe / MSI / News

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack MSI Download

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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader …

Microsoft / Guide

FIX – Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine – KB3085509

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You may have started to receive an error message when you are opening Office documents from a “network” location like SharePoint, OneDrive or an actual network drive today – this is due to yet another Microsoft update causing problems! The error you will probably be receiving is this one: “Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine” After some quick …

Guide / News / Program

DustyPad v1.2 Released – Multi-tab NotePad Utility

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DustyPad is a multi-tab notepad utility which comes as a standalone executable file for easy and quick use and is completely free to use and distribute. With DustyPad you can add as many new pads as you like within a tabbed environment and then save your pads for later use. An easy to use interface is also provided to browse …

News / Apple

iOS 9.0.2 Update Released

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Apple have now released another update to their iOS software taking it up to version 9.0.2. The official bug fix list states that this update fixes the following: Fixes an issue with the setting to turn on or off app mobile data usage Resolves an issue that prevented iMessage activation for some users Resolves an issue where an iCloud Backup …