Yesterday’s post got me thinking. Maybe our workspace don’t need to look so ordinary? These workstations by Derin Design completely redefine the workspace, making dreary cubicles a thing of the past. Called the Igloo Workstation, it features a unique shape that’s definitely more interesting than the traditional cubicle cube.

What I also like about the Igloo, though, is that it doesn’t completely depart for the idea of the cubicle. Each employee still has his or her own breathing space, but this time its far more visually exciting. See more here.

Originally posted on Six Different Ways

Summary: Freeware Files is a software download website that is truly committed to providing their visitors with free software downloads.  While other websites feature programs which are only free on a trial basis or have limited features until purchased, the Freeware Files library of software downloads features the largest database of 100% free downloads.  These are full programs which you can immediately be put to use in order to enhance your entire computer usage experience or in order to enhance your companies productivity.  Additionally, every software download presented on the Freeware Files website is 100% guaranteed to be completely virus, adware, and spy ware free!  This is a guarantee that very few software download websites actually respect and ensure.

Unique Features: The Freeware Files database is professionally organized via category and product name.  This allows you to quickly seek out the specific type of software that you desire with convenience and ease.  Each software download also comes with complete specs and reviews.  You can also find the latest breaking news in software downloads via the Freeware Files website.  In addition, you can also find amazing deals and discounts on all types of “for pay” software programs and can also expect to even download hard to find software programs that are no longer available.

Pros And Cons: With a professionally designed and fast loading website you can expect to experience a smooth time while using the Freeware Files website.  There are no pop-ups or intrusive advertisements, and you can always expect to obtain downloads at the speed of light.

Originally posted on Print Country Blog

Talk about a great office chair. The ChairWorks 9826ZH mesh back chair offers so many useful ergonomic functions for under $300.00. This just might be one of the best office chair deals around. Consider the features like knee tilt, gas lift, six way adjustable arms, polished aluminum base, tension control, and lumbar support. Then, find another chair with this level of comfort and modern style for under $500.00. In two words, not possible. Please take a minute to consider this chair if you are in the market.

Features List:

- High back mesh/fabric seat chair delivers full-
- body support
- Swivel/knee tilt mechanism with lock adjusts
- for individual comfort
- Adjustable tension control
- Mesh back with adjustable lumbar support
- Contoured seat cushion
- Polished aluminum base
- Six way adjustable arm
- Gas lift
- Rated for 350 lbs.
- Soft casters available
- GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified®

Originally posted on theofficefurnitureblog.blogspot.com

Tired of sitting in the same place all day? Well, now you don’t have too. While I can’t take today’s featured design too seriously, I can’t help but love the idea. Tired of your view or your neighbor? Simply move!

The Mobile Office is the work of Tim Vinke as a solution for those tired of sitting in the same spot day after day. A verity of interior elements can be added to the basic design. The mobile office is made of polystyrene with a hotspray coating. More here.

Originally posted on Six Different Ways

It’s as basic a concept as shared server hosting, yet scaled up to unimaginable limits.  Cloud computing is being implemented by companies large and small as a solution to anticipated growth needs. By pooling resources across the world, companies using cloud computing praise the versatility of access to a business network that gives you what you need when you need it, and nothing extra when you don’t. For the office, cloud computing purports to be the next generation of the elusive and seemingly mythical ‘paperless office’, in fact taking steps toward a ‘computer-less office’, where all employees have instant shared access to files, applications and online services from anywhere in the world.

Proponents trumpet cloud computing’s reliability, pointing out that the inherent redundancy in the system makes it nearly impossible to lose data permanently. This can also be of ultimate benefit to corporate security. With all sensitive company information held, not on personal computers which can be lost or stolen, but on monitored servers protected by high levels of encryption security experts feel the ability to protect such files becomes a more attainable task. Investors and financial managers credit the ability of cloud computing to amortize technical costs and reduce the overall expenses of maintaining servers, computers and the staff to maintain such equipment, eventually resulting in net savings.

It would be hard to fault any modern business for desiring the benefits cloud computing offers. Less money spent on unnecessary bandwidth, the multiplicity of software licenses, the wasteful and possibly dangerous duplication of company documents and records along with easy access to all company resources at your fingertips, whenever and wherever – it all seems too good to be true. This is causing some pundits to wonder if there is a possible downside to ‘putting all your eggs into one basket’. For example, a number of customers of one popular company’s cloud computing service were left high and dry when the company suffered a number of outages last year. Though the company claims it has addressed the issues the experience introduced a climate of cautious skepticism for those considering a migration of their business into a cloud computing environment.

These doubts have not deterred major corporations such as Google and Microsoft from pursuing aggressive cloud computing investment and research.  One of the earliest proponents for cloud computing services uses the principles of colocation, virtual private servers and primarily cloud computing to boast of an unmatched 100% server uptime for its customers, emphasizing the relative scalability of its services as one of the most valuable benefits cloud computing can provide to its clients. In fact a large number of small and medium sized businesses are now embracing the concept, citing the virtual growth capabilities of the cloud as helping them avoid costly mistakes with usage predictions and allowing them to move forward without fear of under or over purchasing hardware, software or bandwidth.

Though many businesses find the allure of cloud computing irresistible some business managers and technical directors are still hesitant to make the commitment and move their computer business into the cloud, concerned that the transition is too complex and or expensive. Whist this may be true for some large corporations the opposite is actually true for smaller businesses, which is why this is an area where cloud computing is seeing the most growth among business clients. While many questions still persist about the relative benefits and security of cloud computing the best place to start to explore the possibilities for your business is with a little research. Numerous companies offer detailed and helpful information about every aspect of this new trend so there is no reason to keep yourself in the dark.

Imagine your business as a typical brick and mortar establishment. Every day someone needs to turn on the lights and open the doors. As the staff comes in to do their work you need to make sure they have the tools they need and the supplies required. When customers enter it’s important that they are given a friendly greeting and assisted with finding what they need via an easy avenue for purchase and swift delivery. You wouldn’t dream of opening a storefront without taking these steps, and having a manager to make sure they were being done. With that example in mind, who is managing your online business?

Anyone with an online business can sit back and peruse sales reports and read emails from satisfied and dissatisfied customers. From the comfort of your home you can click your way through your site and – if you have the time – click every link and test every feature. Though that only tells you that things are working properly at that moment in time. Who is looking after your employees’ needs and your customers’ desires when problems occur while you are doing other things, out to dinner or in the middle of the night while you are asleep?

These moments are when you’ll be thankful that you invested in a managed web hosting company with robust web monitoring services. Any web host can claim to be watching your servers all the time, but only those who provide documented and verifiable web monitoring features can let you rest comfortably at night. There are numerous variations of web monitoring softwares out there so it’s best to take some time to familiarize yourself with those which would suit you best, or better yet, ask your web hosting provider to give you the detailed information on those services they recommend.

Making sure your site is monitored from multiple locations is a good indication of the quality of the web monitoring services offered by your prospective web host. Based on how much traffic your site usually experiences in peak time should give you a good starting point for setting the frequency of your web monitoring needs. Just like a brick and mortar business, the busier your website is, the more frequently your virtual ‘manager’ needs to pop in and check that all the components are working properly. This is especially important if you have a high volume site dealing with a variety of financial transactions. The failure of one transaction method could severely impact your sales conversions, but it might be missed in a casual, manual check of your website’s functionality.

Fortunately web hosting companies are acutely aware of the importance of high quality web monitoring, and those that specialize in these services will be more than happy to explain their capabilities with you and be equally willing to spend the time establishing the necessary protocols to keep your site running and your customers happy. If your hosting provider is hesitant to discuss monitoring with you or dismisses your concerns out of hand it might be a good indication that the provider you are with is not the right one for you and your business.

Don’t hesitate to change web hosting companies if your current provider is not willing or able to offer the type of high quality web hosting your business needs. There are a huge number of capable and qualified web server hosting companies who make it their business to keep your site up and functioning – find the one who suits your business best and stick with them.

Remember, when something goes wrong with your site it may not be your hosting provider who’ll be losing sleep at night – but it will be you!

In a dynamic and often chaotic atmosphere like a school, keeping things properly stored is a must. This applies to a wide range of items including teachers’ possessions, pupils’ possessions, teaching materials, art supplies and lunch boxes. Effective school storage is essential to keep each item in its own place for security, safety and ease of retrieval.

Fortunately, nowadays you can choose from a broad array of stylish and efficient school storage options including school lockers, classroom organisers and lunchbox storage systems. Crafted in a range of bright and breezy colours and with the rugged finish that a busy school needs, these hardy items will easily withstand the rigours of a typical school day and give you years of service.

School lockers are essential for students to keep their possessions secure during class time. If you’re looking to upgrade your school lockers but don’t have a big budget, here’s some good news. You can get hardy modern lockers for very reasonable prices.

Popular nowadays are cube lockers. These hardy units are welded and riveted for strength and durability and coated with anti-bacterial powder coating solution for hygiene.

Other than simply storing things, lockers also work to give students more control over their lives and help them learn the responsibility of taking care of their own possessions. This is an important life skill.

With so much variety on offer, how do you choose the right lockers for your school?

The first thing to do is to consider the needs of your students and how much space they require. If you live in a cold area, then the students will need to store bulky coats and jackets which require tall lockers.  Bear in mind that storing wet items such as coats can lead to rusting in metal lockers.

Also the older the student, the more locker space is needed owing to the wider curriculum. There’s also the increased need for the storage of sports clothing and equipment.

Next you need to consider the space you have available. If you’re locker rooms are limited in size, you’ll have to focus on tiered lockers to conserve space. Be sure, of course, to factor in the average heights of your students to make sure they can comfortably use the lockers.

The classroom also requires effective storage. Teachers need to have teaching materials stored for fast and easy retrieval. They can use classroom storage items such as tray storage units in a variety of styles and sizes, classroom organisers such as bins and wall pocket charts, class tidys, storage carts and multi storage trolleys.

Classroom organisers are the ideal items to help both students and teachers keep everything needed for lessons stored away safely and ready for use. One versatile example is the wooden storage bin on castors. It can be stashed away under play tables and then moved around the room as needed.

Then there are organisers that hold an array of individual bins. This is a useful way to sort and separate items such as toys into differing groups. These come in vibrant colours and have no sharp edges that might cause injury. They hold up to a dozen or more individual bins.

In fact you can get storage carts able to hold 18 small tubs. These are ideal for keeping classroom, library and day care materials including books, building bricks, maths, science, and art and craft supplies.

Special attention needs to be paid to art storage as art supplies have the potential to be very messy. You can get special units to store such items as paints, brushes and paper in sizes up to A3.

When it comes to storage, don’t forget the key matter of eating. You can acquire sturdy lunch box trolleys which can hold up to 21 lunchboxes. Moving it around is a breeze due to its two heavy-duty castors.

An organised school is an effective school so proper school storage is a must. Luckily today you can get affordable, durable and stylish items to keep everything safely in its place.

The best way to decide is to look online to see the full range of items available.  For the full range of school supplies including school storage items and school lockers, visit the web sites of the UK’s leading vendors of school supplies. You can browse for the items that suit you and then just place your order online for prompt delivery.

Is your laptop really meant for your lap? A broken laptop hinge later, we figured that the term “laptop” is all that it should ever be – a term. The darn thing should not be balanced on your lap if you can help it.

But isn’t the whole premise of the laptop convenience and mobility, that you can use it whenever and wherever you choose? The thing to remember, though, is that your laptop consists of sensitive parts and electronic thingamajigs that can hardly survive a one and a half foot drop on a concrete floor unscathed, unless you have one of those heavy duty things issued to the Navy SEALs that can take a swim in the rapids and still be okay.

But you need to be mobile, so what do you do? For one, we suggest travelling with a foldaway laptop table. There are lightweight variations of the accessory available that can be conveniently stashed into your carry on, ensuring that you will have a relatively safe place to rest your laptop on as you work wherever.

Another helpful accessory is the spare battery. We have seen people trip over power cords snaking through airport terminals, or worse, having a laptop crash to the floor after someone walks into a power cord as the owner charges in a far-flung wall socket.

If you have to stash your laptop in a carrier other than its laptop case, make sure you have a sturdy and sufficient laptop sleeve to protect it from the other stuff it may come into contact with.

Originally posted on Print Country Blog

Though it can definitely be inconvenient, there is something really beautiful about rain. DCS Corp captures that in this new and unique collection of rain cloud lamps. Each lamp features made from Japanese paper called Washi.

The rain cloud lamps come in several different designs and as a pendant, table lamp, or a floor lamps. See more from DCS Corp here.

Originally posted on Six Different Ways

Sorrento conference tables convey success. Equally at home in the corporate boardroom or private office, Sorrento can be put to the test. Tables are available with a beautifully finished bourbon cherry would with a variety of matching accessories for the conference room.

Available Finishes – Bourbon Cherry
Table Size Shown – 96″W x 42″D x 29 1/2″H
Matching presentation board and accessories available.

Originally posted on theofficefurnitureblog.blogspot.com