TWS Computer Services

Have you ever found your­self know­ing that the soft­ware you use can do so much more than you know how to?  I know this has hap­pened to me many times and I used to use Google or You Tube to try to find out how to do that cer­tain thing and I used to get really frus­trated that it should be easy but never seemed to be.

Then just over 2 years ago I was on an Adobe site fol­low­ing a tuto­r­ial and realised that the video I was watch­ing was part of a full course on the soft­ware I was using.  After fin­ish­ing that video I vis­ited Lynda.com and signed up.

Now 2 years later I have Cer­tifi­cates of Com­ple­tion for many courses and when­ever I need to remind myself how to do some­thing I can re-visit the course and just watch the videos that I need to go over again.

After rec­om­mend­ing the site to many cus­tomers and to friends and fam­ily alike we are now affil­i­ates and are now able to refer cus­tomers to them so that they ben­e­fit from the train­ing we use on an almost daily basis.

• Stay cur­rent and keep skills sharp
• Learn inno­v­a­tive and pro­duc­tive techniques
• Access over 1,260 online courses, 24/7
• Video instruc­tion by rec­og­nized indus­try experts
• Gain con­fi­dence and marketability
• Stop, rewind, replay movies as you need to

Click the image on the left, to visit the Lynda.com site to see for your­self the large num­ber of courses avail­able. If you need any advice on which pack­age is right for you or want to ask how you can make the most of the site con­tact us and we can offer to assist you in get­ting started and you can start to ben­e­fit from the fan­tas­tic train­ing available.

We have many courses in our “Queue” that we are still want­ing to view and learn more ways to make use of the soft­ware that we have bought, to make it pay for itself and really be the value for money we wanted when we installed it.

In recent weeks there has been an increase in the activ­ity of the fraudsters.

Kent Police has some excel­lent advice on the most com­mon types of fraud.  The infor­ma­tion for busi­nesses can be seen using the fol­low­ing link. http://www.kent.police.uk/advice/property_security/fraud/com_fraud_bus.html

Sus­sex Police also have some infor­ma­tion on Fraud Action at the fol­low­ing page: http://www.sussex.police.uk/advice-and-support/fraud-and-scams/

We have noticed that there has been a sig­nif­i­cant increase in the num­ber of calls con­cern­ing two spe­cific fraud types.

The first is the phone call from “The emer­gency ser­vices” relat­ing to adver­tis­ing in a new direc­tory.  Full infor­ma­tion about this type of fraud is in the Kent Police article.

The sec­ond, which will prob­a­bly be to the home user is the call “From Microsoft about your Win­dows com­puter” or at least that is the open­ing line we have heard the most of in recent weeks.  Full details about these types of calls can be found on the Microsoft site at the fol­low­ing link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

We have received calls relat­ing to both of these types of fraud recently.  We have found that insist­ing on an email from the “Emer­gency Ser­vices” ver­i­fy­ing the infor­ma­tion about the direc­tory is enough to stop the calls.  As far as the “calls from Microsoft about your win­dows com­puter”, our advice is to end the call as soon as pos­si­ble although we do know some peo­ple who have played along for a while before announc­ing that they know it is a scam.

The 2 types of fraud men­tioned here are just some of the many types being used to try to get per­sonal infor­ma­tion that the fraud­sters can use to get money from unsus­pect­ing and often vul­ner­a­ble people.