– Christmas Cheer As Christmas rapidly approaches we need to focus on keeping our money in our bank for the items we either need or want, rather than giving it to a computer scammer that will happily lie, cheat and steal to whisk it away from us. Tis the season to be jolly and unfortunately […]
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– Hero by a Thread Interestingly Telstra failed to comment on last weeks’ article? This week we look at another job that is still at the office right now to be sorted ready to go out next Tuesday. In this case it is a 6-year-old HP Envy 17.3” laptop that was a beauty in its […]
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– Security through indecipherability Hello to regular readers and my apologies for a 3-week absence! We have been so incredibly busy at the shop that I was not able to find a spare few hours to construct another article until now. The topic for this week will once again relate to a story that unfolded […]
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– Business Support #2 Following on from my article last week on all of us looking after Australia more than we have in previous years, this week we take a step further and look at buying local. Why buy local? The simple answer is to ask yourself – do you like living in Central Queensland, […]
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– Business Support In this article we will look at supporting Australia and supporting local. So why is this important? While the answer to this should be pretty bloody obvious to most of us, it seems many of the decision makers at both government and local level have, for way too long, lost sight of […]
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– Computer Specs 5 Hello to regular readers and my apologies for missing a few articles lately. The combination of many of us at the shop needing time off sick and the massive increase in our workload since Covid has really stretched us. Even our average turn around time for jobs has increased from typically […]
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– Computer Specs 4 Continuing our quest to obtain and maintain a useful PC, this week we delve further into the significance of some of the computer specs that are floating around in our industry. The next widely mis-understood performance parameter that we need to look at is the video card. Often referred to as […]
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– Computer Specs 3 Continuing on our quest to obtain and maintain a useful PC, this week we delve further into the significance of some of the computer specs that are floating around in our industry. Most hardware manufacturers know that their typical target buyers struggle to understand the relevance of most of the published […]
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– Computer Specs 2 Following on from last week, today we continue to discuss why a computer appears to slow down over time and how we can reduce or ‘manage’ this slow down. As we have already mentioned, a computers’ brain (the CPU) does not slow down with age, but rather the software it is […]
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– Computer Specs Today we are going with an age-old pet topic of mine regarding computer specs and hence computer performance. Over the years we have seen many changes in computer hardware come and go. We have seen CD Rom’s, DVD Rom’s and more recently Blue Ray disks come and largely go again. We have […]
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