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Have you noticed the dictate button in your Microsoft Office toolbar?

Have you noticed the dictate button in your Microsoft Office toolbar?

"Dictate" is relatively recent addition to Office that allows you to dictate directly in Word. Coming shortly will be a new Transcribe feature which allows you upload an audio file, and Office will turn that directly into text. The transcription is saved into your...

International eSecurity Compliance

International eSecurity Compliance

It feels it's like a daily occurrence for one of our clients to be asking for assistance with a security compliance questionnaire from their client. Most of these are being driven by corporates with international footprints. This becomes complex as each jurisdiction...

Damn – I just “corrupted” that document

Damn – I just “corrupted” that document

It happens to all of us. The IT geeks tell us all to save our work to the cloud (or server for those still  to move), but it’s just so convenient to have it on the desktop. We all do it.  It could be a spreadsheet you want to work on or a document that a client shared...

3,102 reported cyber-security incidents in NZ for first half 2020.

3,102 reported cyber-security incidents in NZ for first half 2020.

The numbers are staggering.  We always get a few clients saying "My organisation is too small, cyber-criminals won't attack us".  We can state with absolute certainty that this is a fallacy. Cyber Criminals are targeting every sized organisation Remember that not...

Is “Deathstalker” coming for you?

Is “Deathstalker” coming for you?

Cyber-Crime is big business.  The criminals are organised and sophisticated.  Imagine if they put their ingenuity to things that are good?  But alas, that's not reality.  Instead we have to brace ourselves to deal with another wave of crime. Deathstalker is a such a...

Automating our own business processes with Microsoft 365

Automating our own business processes with Microsoft 365

Normally our case studies reflect work we’ve done with clients. This time we wanted to share how we’ve used our own services through lockdown to automate a key business process. One of the challenges we’ve always had is that it can be really hard to know how long a...

Privacy Act 2020 – Are you ready for Dec 1st?

Privacy Act 2020 – Are you ready for Dec 1st?

Parliament recently passed the new Privacy Act, which comes into effect on 1 December 2020. This introduces stricter measures around the storing, sharing and breach of personal information and gives the Privacy Commissioner more powers. Every organisation should have...

Nostalgia – Floppy Disks flying high in 2020

Nostalgia – Floppy Disks flying high in 2020

The old TRS-80 just turned 43 years old.  It brings back memories of storing programmes on cassette tape.  I still have copies of games I wrote and published on cassette many years ago. That got us thinking about whether their successor, floppy disks, were still in...