David Thacker Blog

Beginning  as a startup we required a low-cost phone solution as we grew we opened more offices we needed additional local numbers for the offices we were opening. The solution  we needed would be a VOIP one, Skype had facilitated our growth with little investment. We had used Skype on daily basis for the last 8 years, it enabled our business to have lines so that we were able to operate collocated offices in Germany, France, UK and also America. Skype was by no means perfect but for us it worked up until the day that Skype decided to kill off personalised voicemail… We never received any prior notification that our voicemail would be deactivated. Our first realization was when our phone started to ring out, no stand in voice mail just the phone ringing out. We needed a quick solution that would allow us to recover have voicemail and integrate into FrontApp any other feature at this moment was just nice to have. The options we reviewed were TalkDesk, AirCall.io & JustCall   Tal...

OK so today was my first day with a macbook pro and I was tasked with the migration from a windows desktop to the MBP as quickly as possible so time is not lost on other projects. First thoughts -- Initial confusion on Rights Clicks -- Initial confusion with how to install an application not from the app store -- the app store does not have everything that you would expect there to be such as Chrome, skype etc. -- Favoriting Network drives - Window management with Multiple screens What I like about the Mac so far The multiple desktops, learning a new OS. Adding printers super easy, Finder, Spotlight, Downloads, Imovie processing speed for basic editing. Small form factor, long battery life, nice keyboard, Auto spell check.