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Top Tips for Using Google Search

10 Tops Tips For Using Google Search Engine

Use these top tips to speed your Google searches or refine the results

1. "Exact Phrase"
Use quotes to restrict search results to the exact phrase. When you use search parameters in quotes, it tells the search engine to search for the whole phrase.
For example: "red laptop cover"

2. Exclude Words -
When you need to narrow down search results to a particular type you can add a minus sign or hyphen to tell the search engine to ignore results containing that word.
For example: cricket -insect

3. Search a range ..
Separate numbers by two full stops without spaces to see results that contain numbers in a range.
For Example: Microwave £20..£50

4. . Use the wildcard asterisk#
Use an asterisk in a search term to leave a place-holder that can be filled by the search engine. This helps when you are not sure of the exact phrase or title of query. For example book titles or song lyrics.
For example: “I'm dreaming of a * Christmas”

5. Search within a site
Search with the prefix site to look for results within a specific website site:cloudscape.it This will find results from only http://cloudscape.it

6. Quick answers
Google is smart enough the work out what you might be looking for in the majority of searches.
Use terms such as:
Weather: to find the weather in your location or add a city to find weather for a specific location place.
Define: use define in front of any word to look up a definition.
Calculate: Enter an equation such as 5238, to calculate quickly
Unit conversions*: Enter a conversion, like £5,60 in euros.

7. Synonyms
~ Searches for the specified keyword and words that are similar to that.

8. allintext:
Searches for multiple words in the body of the search result.
Write the query with allintext: (without spaces)

9. + Include word(s) in the results
+ Use the plus sign to specify a +word +"or words" that should be included in the result

10. Image Search
You can use a picture as your search to find related images from around the web.
On any website, right-click an image and select Copy image URL. Visit images.google.com or click the camera icon in the search box on any Images results page.

Top Tips for Office Relocation

Plan your office move as early as possible
Create a Moving Plan
Hire professional movers with the experience and make sure they have adequate insurance
Talk to your employees about the move as early in the planning stage as
Determine what printed materials such as business cards, envelopes, and stationery will require address changes
Give advance notice to customers and suppliers
Make sure all data cabling is installed and tested before the IT team arrives to setup the network and other equipment.
All broadband and phones need to be in place before you move in.
The IT company will need to set up computers, servers, etc at the earliest possible moment - talk to us about how best to achieve this.
If you are considering an office move, IT equipment upgrade or a bespoke IT solution, just give us a call to review your project. We’ll happily talk you through the best options on a no obligation basis

We can take a lot of the stress and strain out of office IT moves and changes by providing a complete IT and Telecoms service.

At Cloudscape we have a dedicated IT project management team who have overseen hundreds of office moves and IT projects.

Call us for a no obligation IT office move consultation when you are planning your office IT relocation, we’ll be happy to guide ad make your office move smooth and trouble free.

Advantages of VoIP telephone systems

Hosted VoIP Telephone Benefits:

VoIP will save money – Significant call cost savings can be made and no expensive BT lines are

not required. Hosted VoIP technology is inexpensive to install and to operate.
VoIP for Business– Hosted services are feature-rich with anything from voice-mail, auto attendant and conference calling. They are the perfect solution for business applications.
Quick to install – VoIP systems offer speedy installation. Your provider can usually set up your system in a matter of days.
Expandable VoIP phone systems – VoIP can grow with your business. Add extra extensions and locations as and when you need them.
Ease of Installation- Equipment is easy to install and costs so much less than conventional telephone systems
Convenient – Place and receive calls from your smartphone, anywhere, any-time.
Flexibility – For distributed offices or a remote workforce everyone can have a VoIP extension on the same system. The phones can work anywhere with an internet connection.

Want to know more about VoIP Telephone systems?

Simple MAC Tips to Speed Up Your Day

Use the spotlight feature to find you stuff

Use spotlight to help you find files, apps and documents in OS X Yosemite.
click on the the magnifying glass icon in the menu bar or press Command-Space

Ctrl+Alt+Del
If you're used to this function on Windows to end a program or see what's running then you'll need to hold down the Cmd + Option keys and press Esc. This will allow you to end a program similar to the Windows function

Sign a Doc
Electronically sign a PDF using Preview.
If you have to return a document that you've received via email you’ll know the problems of having to add your signature.
Open Preview, Click on the toolbox icon and then the signature. Job done!

Take a Screenshot

When you need to take a snap of just part of the screen. The simple way is to just press Cmd + Shift + 4.
Drag the box to the area you want to grab and the image section will be saved to desktop.

Use Windows on Your MAC

Yes it's possible to use Windows on your MAc and very simple to do.
Boot Camp in the Applications folder will allow you to partition your disk and then you can install Windows on a separate part of the disk and on startup hold down the Option key and you wil be able choose between Windows or MAC operation systems.

For more information or help with your PC, Laptop or MAC contact us at http://cloudscape.it/it-support/