Month: February 2015

Give an old iMac a second life by turning it into a monitor for a new Apple Mac Computer.

Wouldn’t it be great if you  could plug your new Mac laptop into an old iMac and use it as a giant monitor.

The good news is that you can. And it’s pretty easy to use an iMac as a monitor for another Mac. You used to have to either physically hack  the old Mac, or use some networking software, but Apple has taken matters into its own hands with a great feature called Target Display Mode.

Macworld take you through the steps of how to do use Target Display Mode.
However GEEX can also help, just give us a call. We also have great business leases on Macs.

Microsoft has put up a serious contender for best email client on mobile by relaunching Acompli as Outlook.

It seems as though Microsoft is on a quest to improve its image as a modern and trendy company. Their Windows 10 has already had a change for the tech giant, and now it’s launch of Outlook on iOS and Android looks to complete this new look with a wide audience.

Based on the application Acompli, which Microsoft bought last year for a whopping $200 million, Outlook replaces the confusing array of Outlook branded Android and iOS apps – although they are still available at the moment and won’t be phased out for a little while yet.

Work mail is amazon’s answer to Office 365.

Amazons new business email service to try and take on Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps for work.

After just launching in Europe and the US, Amazon ‘workmail’ will cost per user $4 (£2.66) a month, or $6 if you want added features like WorkDocs file share and sync service. This however is still slightly more expensive than Office 365 or Google Apps for work subscription .

Amazon WorkMail allows companies to select where they store email data, so European companies can keep in line with EU data protection regulations. Whereas Microsoft automatically uses data centres within the company’s region.

Workmail also allows its users to manage their own encryption key if they so wish, although if they opt to they can use an Amazon web services (AWS) – provided key.

This is Amazon’s latest attempt to target the SMB market. Amazon had for a long time held the title of the largest cloud services provider in the world thanks to its cloud hosting products like EC2, a cloud computing platform, and S3, a cloud storage solution, which have traditionally been used by large enterprises.

If you have any questions about if WorkMail is right for you, give GEEX a call today on 0121 258 0098