4 must-haves to get your site noticed
A good friend of mine set up business a few months ago in a local village. The business is in the medical arena, and he trained part-time for 5 years to get to the point where he could pass his exams and start trading officially. So far his business seems to be doing...
Is Buzz good for business?
In the week since Google Buzz started hitting people's Google Mail accounts much has happened, and there has been a veritable avalanche of opinion. It's all very confusing to those who aren't that interested in the finer technical details. But if you're sitting there...
IE6 RIP
If you know anything about web design, then you will know that one of the major bugbears of any web designer is coping with the multitude of browsers that proliferate on t'internet. There are 4 or 5 major players, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox...
Mobile Broadband Devices
All the statistics and studies suggest that mobile broadband is experiencing a period of unrelenting growth. Across the UK and Europe the popularity of mobile broadband devices and the connectivity options they afford is booming and the market is expected to double by...
Google Nexus One
On Jan 5th, Google announced it's first piece of hardware, the Nexus One phone. This is a pretty momentous event, being Google's first foray into producing something physical that you can hold in the palm of your hand. In essence, this positions Google as more of a...
Google wants to know everything about you
Yesterday, Google announced a new service, somewhat out of the blue. I'm referring, of course, to Google Public DNS, which for the majority of the world's computer users will undoubtedly be met with overwhelming indifference. And yet, this is a pretty significant...
Hero worship
So, a month ago I blogged about how an Android phone might be the best mobile email option for SME's, and stated my intention to obtain an Android handset, specifically a HTC Hero, so that I could give you the low-down on whether or not the promise is fulfilled. I...
IMAP rules, OK
Or...how to use IMAP filters in Google Mail to maximum effect. Google and IMAP Here at Four Lakes we love Google Apps. For homeworkers, small businesses and self-confessed geeks (yup, that's me) is a great way to organise your work and personal activities online. Our...
A new answer to mobile email
Until recently, mobile email has fallen into one of two camps, broadly speaking. Road warriors For corporations, or people who were really serious about accessing their email on the move, were the Blackberry users. Of course, the options in this group have expanded...
What is SAAS?
The ever-useful wikipedia defines SAAS thus: a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand Another way of looking at it is: software that is used via the internet rather than a local server One of...
New website
The more observant amongst you will have noticed that there is a radically different look to the Four Lakes website. There are a couple of reasons for this: As already announced, the Voice-over-IP side of Four Lakes product and service portfolio has been given a new...
Introducing Voicespan
As of Monday 6th of July, all VoIP-related activities carried out by Four Lakes Consulting have now been transferred to Voicespan. Don't worry, this does not mean that someone else is now running the VoIP show, merely that such an important part of the Four Lakes...
