Category Archives for "Computers"

Byte Me Article 93 – Learn warning signs to beginning of the end of your PC’s hard drive

Learn warning signs to beginning of the end of your PC’s hard drive 29 September, 2012 Last week we talked about hard drives and in particular how solid state drives will slowly replace the traditional rotating electromagnetic hard drives that have been popular for the last 25 years.  The hard drive is the small internal […]

Byte Me Article 92 – Small, but mighty powerful

Small, but mighty powerful 22 September, 2012 Today we are going to look at one aspect of computer hardware – the hard drive. We find that the hard drive is often incorrectly labelled as many people refer to their entire computer tower as the hard drive. In fact the hard drive is just one of […]

Byte Me Article 91 – Got a need for speed? – Delete junk software

-Got a need for speed? – Delete junk software 15 September, 2012 Would you buy a V8 car but forever drive it around with 4 of the plug leads missing?  This is effectively what happens to the performance of nearly every new ‘off the shelf’ PC or laptop that I see nowadays.  The retail solutions […]

Byte Me Article 90 – Creeps cyber in to your online emails

-Creeps cyber in to your online emails-Scammers new trick to invade your privacy 15 September, 2012 The email above is a particularly bad phishing email that is doing the rounds lately.  It is the most authentic looking that I have seen to date.  It has all of the right logos and even correct spelling and […]

Byte Me Article 89 – Don’t fry your hard drive

Don’t fry your hard drive 8 September, 2012 Our short lived winter is fast diminishing and we are already starting to feel the heat of another long CQ summer.  It is also time to spare a thought for your PC which is susceptible to temperature changes as well.  There are a few things we can […]

Byte Me Article 88 – Best to replace ‘snail’

1 September, 2012 Does the average Joe really appreciate the pace of technology?  I found myself in Mackay early this week installing a new server.  While there the customer also asked me to take a look at one of their computers that was running slow – which turned out to be the understatement of the […]

Byte Me Article 87 – Keep PC software disks safe

-Keep PC software disks safe 25 August, 2012 IT is already the end of August and soon the big retailers will tempt us with their Christmas wares.  A year goes too quick and after only 3 or 4 of them that ‘new’ PC that you bought ‘recently’ has pretty much lived its day.  Unfortunately at […]

Byte Me Article 86 – Creating efficiency in emails

-Creating efficiency in emails 18 August, 2012 Compared to the humble letter through the post, emails have been around for a relatively short space of time – first appearing around 1973 but not really being used in mass until the 80’s.  If you had said to the average person back then – ‘I’ll email you’ […]

Byte Me Article 85 – When your internet’s far less Usain than you would have it

-When your internet’s far less Usain than you would have it 11 August, 2012 “My Internet is running slow”.  I couldn’t count the number of times we hear this each week.  Unfortunately there are such a range of issues which effect how fast your internet ‘runs’ which are far more complex than for instance ‘Word’ […]

Byte Me Article 84 – Slow Computers, Outdated Software Costly for Business

– Slow Computers, Outdated Software Costly for Business 4 August, 2012 What does IT really cost?  There are two answers to this question – one which is a direct cost and another, a more difficult to calculate indirect cost.  The first is how much you are spending each year on your computers, software and maintenance.  […]