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For millions of Australians, a fast and reliable internet connection is still not a given. Head an hour out of any capital city and the story is familiar: patchy mobile coverage, slow or unavailable ADSL, and NBN plans that promise more than the line can deliver. If you live rurally, run a business off the beaten track, or simply spend a lot of time on the road, you have probably learned to work around dead zones rather than expect to beat them. …

Remember back in the late nineties when tech gurus promised us that by now we would all be living in a sleek, paperless utopia? We were told that physical paper would follow the cassette tape and the VHS player into the dusty annals of history. Well, look around your workspace right now. See that printer sitting there, ready to pump out today’s invoices, site plans, and shipping labels? It turns out reports of the death of printing have bee …

Practical ways to spend less on ink, toner and paper, without sacrificing the quality your business depends on. Printing is one of those costs that quietly creeps up on a business. No single print job feels expensive, but across a year the cartridges, paper and wasted pages add up to a figure that surprises most owners when they finally tally it. The good news is that printing is also one of the easiest costs to bring down, and usually without bu …

A practical buyer's guide to picking the right machine, the right pouch, and getting a flawless finish every time. A laminator is one of the cheapest, most useful machines a business can own — but only if you buy the right one and use it properly. Get it wrong and you end up with a machine that jams on the pouches you actually need, or laminated work that peels, clouds and bubbles within a week. Get it right and you have a tool that protect …