April 2010

One of the differences you’ll notice when moving from Windows XP to Windows 7 is that in Windows Explorer there is no menu bar – so by default you don’t see File, Edit, etc! The reason for this is that most of the functionality you’re going to need is available via on-screen options. For those […]

Today we had the pleasure of meeting the Duchess of Northumberland during her visit to Berwick. The Duchess was officially opening the Workspace building, a purpose built centre to stimulate the development and growth of small businesses in and around the Berwick area. She was accompanied by a few members of the Council and the […]

Following on in our series of company profiles we would like to introduce to you another company that we work with. Pictorial photography is run by Sarah Chappell, and below you can see a recently published article explaining a little bit about what Sarah does. We have collaborated on numerous projects and Sarah has provided […]

By default, Windows Windows chooses to hide a good number of files from it’s users. Fortunately, it’s easy to turn the relevant options off! Open My Computer or Windows Explorer. Go to the Tools menu, and select Folder Options… Select the View tab, and locate Hidden Files and Folders, select the sub item Show hidden […]

Here at Northern Lab we know our strength and our weaknesses, we are good at what we do but we know that there are certain things that other people can do better than us. Being a small business we develop relationships with other businesses in order to collaborate on projects, and we thought it only […]

We’ve migrated to our new helpdesk service which we think offers a superior experience to our previous offering. If you’re an existing customer, we’ll be contacting you with your new username and password for the new helpdesk so that you can start using it straight away! Over time we’ll be using the new helpdesk to […]

Another week, another launch! This week we have finished testing and polishing the new International Mortgages website. This site provides financial and mortgage information for people who are looking to buy properties in foreign countries. We have found the staff at International Mortgages very friendly, and we would recommend this company to anyone. We are […]

Today, we thought we’d provide our list of free Mac OS X apps that we’ve found to be both useful and well designed. In the list below each of the apps has a link to the developers website so that you can do some further investigation of those apps which catch your eye. OpenOffice A […]

I came accross an interesting issue with Google Chrome the other day. I’ve been using Google Chrome for some time now and all of a sudden some sites started displaying a red or orange box around the links. Sites like Delicious, digg and other sites that I visit regularly started exhibiting this behaviour. I did […]

Ohoy there! Pease Bay caravan website now live! This week we are extremely excited at the launch of the new Pease bay Caravan Park website. We have been working with Pease Bay over the last few months to redesign their website, and the response to the new site has been amazing. www.peasebay.co.uk has received praise […]