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BBC iPlayer on the Wii
This is nothing to do with our virtual office service but just something neat that I have been playing with today. As at 18th Nov 2009 the BBC have launched a specific version of iPlayer for the Wii, meaning you can watch iPlayer on your tele. I’ve set this up today and it has been pretty [...]
Divert Skype to a telephone number (landline or mobile)
We have some customers of our virtual receptionist service who have a telephone number with Skype and want to divert this SkypeIn number to another telephone number. In this case it is so we can answer calls in their company name when they are not available but it would apply just as well if you [...]
Excel vba – make a beep sound
I have been working on an Excel spreadsheet and wanted to make a beep into some VBA code. Turns out to be very simple as you just put the word beep into the code. For example:
If Range(”A1″) = True Then
Range(”A2″) = True
Beep
Endif
In this example, if cell A1 is set to True then cell A2 [...]
Virtual Computer for free from g.ho.st
Get a virtual computer for free at g.ho.st (update: April 2010. unfortunately g.ho.st has been withdrawn as a free service, see section below for alternatives)
It does n’t look like a normal link but type g.ho.st into your browser and you will come a cool service called Ghost, which stands for Global Hosted Operating System. There [...]
Importing email account settings into Outlook
We have recently started offering a domain, website and email services to our virtual office customers and I was looking for an easy way to help customers set up their email in Outlook. What I have discovered is that this is quite simple using a feature in Outlook Express as an intermediate step.
What I do [...]