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Cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure and the real-world problems we solve — written up by the people who do the work.

Software

Windows 3.1 is not dead!

11 Apr 2018

Feeling like you need to regress to your Windows 3.1 days? The Windows 3.1 File Manager lives! In a throw back to the past, Microsoft …

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Remote Work

Smart Sync transforms the way you Dropbox

11 Apr 2018

You’d be forgiven if you missed the news… but perhaps the most exciting thing to change in Dropbox land recently is the introduction of Selective …

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Company News

It’s BACK! NBN HFC set to resume sales this month!

10 Apr 2018

After having the HFC pin pulled in December last year, nbn announced yesterday that they are resuming HFC sales on 27th April.

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Company News

Cut the cord and connect with the cloud

09 Apr 2018

Migrating your voice services for the NBN can be hard, but the first step is to speak to someone who understands those challenges.

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Remote Work

CloudPBX Mobile is here

09 Apr 2018

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new SoftPhone app for our CloudPBX Platform, CloudPBX Mobile. CloudPBX Mobile enables users of the Real World …

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Remote Support Services

AEM 5.7.0 Maintenance Release

06 Apr 2018

Autotask, our Remote Support and Management Partner, have scheduled a system upgrade to version 5.7.0 later today. This update addresses a number of issues with …

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Company News

Celebrate! We’ve been selected to be a Dell EMC Storage Deployment Partner!

05 Apr 2018

We’re excited to announce that Real World has been named as a Dell EMC SC Storage Deployment Partner. This certification recognises Real World’s experience in …

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Information Security

Facebook kills API ecosystem to give users better privacy

05 Apr 2018

After much speculation, today Facebook has confirmed around 300 000 Australian accounts, mostly from Australian’s living overseas, may have had their data exposed in the …

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Company News

Updated CDR API Code now available

04 Apr 2018

Over the last 12 months we’ve made some updates to our CDR API code internally. We’ve previously released the code as a ZIP file from …

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Community and Social

Share The Dignity – Give Pads and Tampons in the April #Dignitydrive

04 Apr 2018

On any given night in Australia, 1 in 200 people are homeless. 44% are female. 27% are children under the age of 18. 55% of …

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Telecommunications

A better way to check DNS performance

04 Apr 2018

Earlier in the week we posted about CloudFlare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. I had tested performance on a few common websites across a range of DNS …

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Web Development

Shell Tools to simplify web development

03 Apr 2018

Many web developers use a range of tools to streamline their development process. These tools simplify installing updates, installing packages, testing for errors and managing …

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