– 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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– 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 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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– Tips from the Team Dear Readers, today marks the end of a special era for us with this final printed edition being Byte Me article number 471. Aptly named by my good friend Shannon, the ‘Byte Me’ articles over the last 10 years have touched on literally 100’s of different computer topics and have […]
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– 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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– Tip & Tricks As we head toward the sad demise of our printed paper, I will try to make the most of my remaining articles before they are only available online. After the end of June they can be accessed via the Morning Bulletin online portal or via our own website. Todays’ article is […]
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– General Business What happens at the shop in a week? Five and a half days can disappear in what seems to be the blink of an eye when you are flat out – and we are flat out at present. This is a rather disappointing measure of time considering that we are lucky to […]
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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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-Community Support At this crazy time in our lives it is hard to write a weekly column and not mention the infamous Corona virus. From my own personal point of view the source of most of the fear surrounding this rotten bug is the lack of knowledge of what it can / will do. Nobody […]
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– Corona Virus #3 This week has been flat out again with more customers that either want to home school their kids or work from home themselves. One of the common themes that we are hearing from new customers that are doing the ring around to seek IT help is that they are told by […]
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