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Vigor 2850 and BT FTTC tip

The latest incarnation of the flagship router from Draytek provides good functionality at a good price. Specifically the ability to directly link to a Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) or vhdsl connection without the BT Openreach modem is a useful feature to give better visibility as the quality and speed of the connection. However there […]


Checking your network shares

When auditing the shares and access control permissions on a network  – a useful tool is Nirsoft’s NetResView from here The tool NetResView is a small utility that displays the list of all network resources (computers, disk shares, and printer shares) on your LAN. As opposed to “My Network Places” module of Windows, NetResView display […]


Iphone 5 – is finally here

Worth waiting for the final details today. The long awaiting poster child of Apple – the IPhone gets its new release – the Iphone 5. In summary whats new ? New O/S – IOS6 New camera Bigger Screen Better battery life 4G capability Improved processor And its taller too… other improvements are in the apps such […]


Lotus Smartcloud gets project management app

The IBM smartcloud collaboration platform gets a new addition with Projexec – an integrated tool for managing projects. The tool should fill the gap between the activities and to-dos provided by Smartcloud (formally Lotuslive). This has long been a missing feature of the platform and although I thought it should have been in the functionality already […]