-Corona Virus #2 This week has been flat out with supplying laptops, micro towers and screens to people needing to work from home. We have also sold a heap of our ‘back to school’ laptops for parents that want their kids to study from home. In fact, Corona has so far made us busier than […]
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–Corona Virus Hello to our regular and possible some new readers. Firstly let me apologise for the lack of an article last week. We have been so busy at the shop that I could not even try to find the time to write another article and I am pushing deadlines right now (Friday afternoon at […]
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–Security 2 Following on from last weeks’ article about Internet security, this week we look at both what you can do to stay safe and what we can do to help keep you safe. I say this with the emphasis on the end user as taken to the nth degree – if you were to […]
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–Internet Security So did anything go drastically wrong this morning? Hopefully not, but let us consider one scenario that could have happened. You woke up and drove to the local newsagency to get the paper and some milk and went to pay via a card – it declined. Without any cash in your wallet you […]
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–Backup Final I wrote an article last week without realising exactly how many customers we had with Avast anti-virus; however it has been great to catch up again with our more regular customers and it surely keeps my techs on their toes! For regular readers looking for a conclusion to the backup article that I […]
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–What is a backup 2 Today we will try to return to completing our backup article from 2 weeks ago, however there is one important point that needs to be covered first. There are many anti-virus products that are on the market that all offer to help keep you safe from viruses or malware or […]
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–Win 7 Upgrade Profiteering Last week I wrote about backup systems and was to complete that article here today. Unfortunately we need to interrupt that series to talk about a more urgent topic – profiteering from the demise of Windows 7 support. Regular readers will already know that Microsoft finally dropped further support for its […]
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What is a backup I have now written 450 Byte Me Articles over the last 10 years with the first article being published on the 6th of Feb 2010. I see that during this time I have covered the topic of data backups nearly 20 times, however at the risk of annoying regular readers I also […]
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Business Support This week we had all the techs, our reception manager and myself all doing overtime again due to the number of customers coming in with Windows 7 devices. When Microsoft makes a change such as dropping all further support for Windows 7 it has far reaching world-wide implications! When you consider that about […]
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Back to School Mid-January has already passed, and we are not far from the going back to school time of the year. This time of the year can cause headaches for families when they try to dissect the IT information flyer that their school has sent home regarding the necessary specs for a school laptop. […]
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