Shift Solutions News

Noel Adsett, Rest In Peace.

I just got word from a client who is friends with Noel that he passed away a few weeks ago. Noel had been a client of ours for a long time. He was a great bloke, and I always enjoyed dropping round to fix up whatever was causing him grief. Rest in peace Noel.



Beware the dodgy phone contract

Just a quick note to all our valued clients and readers that you should not get invovled with companies offering special deals and feebies for signing up with their phone contracts. We got stung with a very bad deal involving a PABX four years ago. Right now, the company in question is trying to extort [...]



Telstra Telemarketing

I feel the need to have a little rant about a guy who claims to be from Telstra who just keeps calling me; He has called about a half dozen times today, and its now got to the point of harassment. Because not everyone will care, the rant beings over the fold; I’ve added some [...]



Unscheduled Outage affected all web hosting customers

Just a quick note to let everyone know our back end web servers had some connectivity issues last night. The outage lasted from about 5pm to about 4am this morning. During that time, you would not have been able to retrieve email, and your website would have been unreachable. No email was lost during this [...]



Major Internet Fault affecting many ISP’s

Late last night it has been reported that Telstra have had a major infrastructure failure, which appears to have causes massive disruption across Australia to various ISP’s. Our customers on Internode ADSL probably wouldn’t have noticed any issues, as Internode operate their own rully redundant network across Australia. As far as we know, this problem [...]



Blu-Ray Burners now available

Just a quick note to let everyone know that if you have a spare $899 burning a hole in your pocket, you can get a Blu-Ray Drive for your computer. That’ll let you burn as well as read Blu-Ray discs, although we are yet to get pricing on the blank media.



Internode Plan Changes

Many of our clients have taken our advice to sign up for an ADSL Broadband service from Internode. For this reason I thought it was important to make an announcement about Internodes recently announced plan changes. A great many plans are going up in price. This is primarily due to rises in costs in providing [...]



The difference between “us” and “them”

Don’t take my posting this video as me having a go at HP; They are just the example here. As the video starts, it points out there is nothing unusual about this support call. The guy is right, most large companies offer this kind of support.  I’m posting it as a little example of the [...]



Capital Shoes – Online Store now Live.

One of our clients, Capital Shoes, has just started populating their online store with their great range of shoes and bags. Bronwyn is really focused on delivering great customer service, and of course, great shoes, to her clients, so if you are one of the many clients who doesn’t mind a nice pair of shoes, [...]



Shift Solutions announces recycling program.

I am pleased to announce that we have finally found a partner to assist us in recycling the waste that is generated both from repairing computers and from retiring old PC’s. Freecollect of Toowoomba will be handling all of our electronic waste, and having it processed at this stage overseas. Hopefully over the next year or [...]