Intuitive Apps articles

Do you know some of Melbourne's hidden secrets? An underground cheese cellar discreetly located under Spring Street?  Or, if you were looking for some mid-week drinks? You can quench your thirst at one of the secret bars in "a laneway off another laneway". And perhaps the most magical secret of all…a room dedicated to magic and its' history at the State Library. Melbourne is full of hidden gems to explore. But it's only when you take the time to learn from ...

Finding a seat on the 7.19 am city loop service to Ringwood seems to be a distant memory for most workers.  Once, you struggled to find car parking at the station.  And hurried towards the platform.  Hoping the heavens didn't open on you in your suit. Of course, if you did find a seat, you'd share the next hour in the packed carriage as the train lurched towards the city.  You would wrestle to open ...

Things that were once staples of our lives continue to change. For example, take food. Melbourne is the foodie capital of Australia.  And you have to look no further than the MCG to see how Melbourians have changed their food habits. Even at the footy.  Once, you would sit in the Ponsford Stand eating a Four'N Twenty pie with tomato sauce, watching the Dees take on the Hawks (Go Hawks!). Now, your hunger competes with ...

Is there anything more Melbourne in the summer than the Australian Open? Balmy summer nights, roof open on Rod Laver Arena and watching the worlds best go head-to-head.  Melbourne Park is renowned for hosting the best grand slam globally. But it hasn't always been that way. When premier John Cain moved the Aus Open to Flinders Park, he faced fierce opposition. He turned a public park into a place for a tennis tournament. However, the ...

The idea of a four-day week or working remotely by a beach may sound bliss.  But it wasn't practical for many businesses until we found ourselves locked down. Businesses and employees adapted quickly to remote working and using digital tools. And suddenly, doing a Zoom meeting from a cafe in Kew or talking to coworkers on a walk around Albert Park lake was the norm. As Melbourne workplaces adjusted, managers started to look for ways ...

During April, Intuitive IT was working hard on creating more efficiencies and automations in the business. In doing so, we thought it would be a good idea to share four key reasons to automate your business. As a Melbourne IT support company, we have access to skill sets that make the process of developing automation a lot easier than most. You would think that this would mean we're running a Jetsons-like world of bots and ...

Save your staff time and money by automating mundane tasks I wanted to start this month’s update by talking about an internal case study in automation and give you a real-world example of how a very small manual task once automated can provide a very big decrease in costs. This is something small business owners should be talking to their IT provider about regularly. Manual tasks within business cost time and money. Automation through the ...

  Early last week I received a call from a friend who was worried about a scam email he received. Initially, I thought “what’s the big deal?”. How bad can a scam email be? Just mark it as spam, delete it and move on.   He went on to explain that the scam message informed him that they had access to his computer and information on it. They “proved” this by stating they had his ...

I am furious. Out and out outraged. I can’t believe it still happens but it does. I was reminded of it again yesterday. Why so mad? Because it gives IT people a bad name and it’s soooo easy to fix. It shouldn’t even be an issue. TEST. YOUR. BACKUPS. Backups are important right? Right. Talking about backups is boring right? Right. But each and every business owner needs to read this and make sure that ...