We provide assistance and advice to small businesses and home users. This includes advice on purchasing (what to buy and where to buy), setting up small networks so that you can share printers and internet connections, anti-virus precautions, software purchases and what to avoid, and general care and maintenance of your computer. Should you break your computer, it’s quite possibly software related, and we can assist in sorting out these problems.Be warned however, that sometimes the best solution is to scrap the lot (software-wise) and start again, by re-installing your system from scratch. A nasty virus and the associated cleanup procedure can leave collateral damage that makes your computer very unreliable. Sometimes it is necessary to take a final back-up of your data, and then wipe the hard disk and re-install everything.This is not a quick process, and needs to be done with care if you are not to lose data.

Have you ever thought that perhaps your computer can do more than just print letters? Perhaps you wonder about some of the more complicated parts of your word processor, like mail merging? Do you do calculations with a desk calculator, rather than use a spreadsheet?
Modern business software is incredibly powerful and often very complicated! Thanks to the bloating introduced by vendors attempting to sell you the latest version, even the busiest users rarely use above about 10% of the features of many of these systems.There is also an element of “over-ambition” with these packages.Word processors are claimed to be capable of calculations. Spreadsheets are claimed to have “data handling capability”. And databases are sold on the basis that they are simple to use.

Successful businesses use information effectively to support business decisions. Many other businesses struggle using whatever information that can be painfully won from a mass of unhelpful data. Some businesses survive by blind luck, or the experience and intuition of their staff.Modern hardware and software provides database power that was formerly the preserve of large mainframe systems – but with a far friendlier user interface, far superior reporting and presentation abilities, and for a price that is almost unbelievably cheap. Microsoft Access is one of the best of these new database systems, and the only drawback is that it is so easy to use, the inexperienced may produce a bad database design that will not deliver all the benefits that it could.Another common practice is to store data in a spreadsheet (or even a wordprocessed document). Again, this leads to poor design, often to errors, and to a system that is difficult to maintain and use.

A business web site offers inexpensive advertising space, allowing interested customers to visit and learn about your business 24 hours a day. Size of advertisement is no longer an issue. For the price of a credit card newspaper or magazine advertisement we can supply you with a web page containing the equivalent of an A4 leaflet, which remains available all day, every day, until you remove or update it. For a very modest sum you can give as much detail as you want about your products and services. Minor alterations can be made without huge printing costs.

Businesses may also benefit from some of the other things that the Internet has to offer, such a electronic mail, on-line banking, and filling out and submission of government forms and those of similar agencies.Some businesses can really use the web – to sell products or services, 24 hours a day, driven by your customers.