Tips for Multi-Family Business Centers – Coworking Amenity
So what is a Business Center for Multi-Family venues? A Business Center is a place included in your Co-working Amenity where your tenants and student tenants can get some work and studying done. They usually include a multi-function printer and several PCs and can...
Customer Spotlight: Airport Honolulu Hotel
The Airport Honolulu Hotel has been a customer for many years making use of our Flight Information Display to show the arrivals and departures from the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) as well as weather and featured amenities of the hotel. From their...
RICK’S TECH TIPS: Making Ethernet Terminations Less of a Pain
Everyone hates doing ethernet terminations. It's slow, monotonous, boring and makes your fingers hurt. Well here are two tools I use to make things go a little better. Tool #1: The Untwist Tool. The Untwist tool is simple to use, fast, and eliminates that pain in your...
Hotel Flags Should Kill the Wifi Splash Page
The wifi splash page and redirection is a holdover of days gone past and something I have never understood the need for. Companies want to use it for promotional or monetary purposes that would seem to have nothing to do with giving the guest a better experience at...
Can Business Center Software Install on a Vista Machine?
We tell everyone that our business center software will install on just about any old PC, so I thought let's put it to the test. We drag out on old Dell Vista machine that won't even boot and give it a try! While the install took a little longer, once the software was...
What else is Kharma’s business center software good for?
While everyone knows our business center software for hotel and assisted/senior living business centers, our rock solid, secure PCs also come in handy anytime you need a publicly exposed PC platform that cannot be vandalized. Below is a list of a few alternative use...
Why Windows is not the Best Operating System for your Hotel Business Center
Windows is ubiquitous - it's everywhere! And while it is fine for personal use, it comes up lacking in the business center department. Hell, in the beginning, we even tried to use Windows for Business Centers. What happened was a support nightmare and disappointed...
Customer Spotlight: The Lakefront Anchorage Hotel
The Lakefront Anchorage Hotel is one of our Lobby Flight Sign customers located on the largest float plane base in the world at Lake Spenard. With so many flights coming and going at this unique destination, Kharma's Flight Information Display helps the guests of the...
No Wall Outlet for Your Business Center?
Have you ever wanted to move your business center to a new location only to find out there is no data outlet anywhere near the new location? Frustrating, right? You would think in this day and age there would be outlets everywhere. Have a new cable run by the...
Running Network Cables or Not in Your Bed & Breakfast
Running network cables for wifi or other needs in a Bed & Breakfast is problematic at best. These Inns were definitely not constructed with wifi in mind and running cables. Plus, a large portion of Inns are Historic structures and drilling holes everywhere. So how...