– Alyssa Joins Us Today marks the 3rd last printed version of my Byte Me articles as we draw toward the end of June and the end of 159 years of printed Morning Bulletin papers! After the end of June these articles will be available from the online version of The Morning Bulletin and from our […]
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– Invisible Connections 2 As a follow up to last weeks’ article on wireless connections we will try to wrap up the subject this week. We have already talked about Satellite Internet, 3G, 4G 4GX, 5G and NBN Fixed Wireless Internet connections. All these connections are designed to get an Internet signal to your premises. […]
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– Invisible Connections This Saturday we delve into the unseen and try to shed light on a topic that many have problems with – Wireless connections. This topic readily confuses which is evidenced by the number of customer’s that walk through our door that are totally unsure as to how they receive their Internet connection. […]
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Custom Build Gaming Rigs I would love to report that Telstra read my article from last week and is doing a complete about turn by closing its offshore call centres and opening them up on Australian shores, employing some 20,000 ex Tourism and Hospitality workers that are desperate for a new job and giving all […]
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Latest Scam Todays article gets a little more serious and is typical of problems at this time of the year. Nearly every year just before Christmas we see a new virus, malware or some sort of exploit. In this case it is a Java exploit within Internet Explorer, and it is affecting a surprising number […]
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Is Your Internet Up To Speed? Rural Internet Connections This week we try to clean up some of the confusion surrounding Internet connections. Unfortunately this is a very subjective and technical topic so I will try to keep things in layman’s terms. It is also due to the technical & subjective nature of Internet connections […]
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Craptops Creating ConcernsComputer-Manufacturing Industry Needs Standards This week we were again brought a myriad of devices that needed speeding up. Out of approximately 10 devices we were able to significantly speed up 5 of them with the fitting of solid-state drives (SSD’s) – but the rest were no go. So why were they no go? […]
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Are You the Master or the Slave? Master or slave, which would you prefer to be? Before I get myself into too much trouble here, I need to explain that I am talking about the computer / user relationship that we all have with our PC devices. We get people coming through the door every […]
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Losing Data Can Be Avoided This week has seen a mixed bag of work at the shop and many of my team away on sick leave. I had a bout of the man flu myself which saw me take Wednesday off sick. This is a rare occurrence and one that I am keen to forget […]
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Keep Your IT Heart Healthy Many of my recent articles have focused on computer upgrades or computer replacement, so today we will place a focus on computer maintenance. It is all well and good to purchase a reliable and robust PC – but here we are talking about the quality of components like motherboard, CPU, […]
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