Windows of Opportunity to Update Last week I wrote about Microsoft dropping support for Windows XP on the 8th of April – in less than a month. The response to this article has be immense and our phones have be ringing hot. Unfortunately there is still a lot of miss-information out there as well as […]
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Keeping Pace with Smartphones The information technology world never stands still (never sleeps often too) and things change at a rapid rate. No one can ignore the speedy evolution of mobile devices that can make phone calls, browse the Internet, send/receive emails as well as take reasonable photos – smart phones as they are now […]
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Power Doesn’t Mean Intelligence Last week we were looking at the workings of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) – the very brain of a computer. We showed that if buying a new desktop PC or laptop the power rating of its brain is not easily compared against other marketplace alternatives unless you look it up […]
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What’s in Your Computers Heart Many thanks to the readers who have emailed me (at the address at the end of this article) with questions or suggestions for future articles. Several of you have asked about CPU’s and I have previously written a couple of articles about this electronic component – being one of the […]
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Protecting Your PC in the Home 508mm of rain overnight – that is how much one area in the ranges behind Mackay received Thursday night. The sort of weather that cyclone Dylan has brought with it is tough on people and on computers as well. There are several things to look out for with both […]
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Beware of Empty Promises Late this week we had a new customer come and see us who was visibly upset. They had purchased a new desktop PC, a new laptop and a heap of other white goods from a local retailer. The same retailer had recommended an installer for the white goods and a local […]
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Windows 8 is Not an Unqualified Success Welcome back to the first of the 2014 Byte Me articles and I hope that many of you enjoyed a good Christmas break such as I did! The New Year has kicked off frantically and we already have a back log of things to get through from our […]
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Crystal Ball on Computing in 2014 This being the last Byte Me Article for 2013 has me reflecting on the current direction of computing & where I think we will see it heading during the next 12 months. One of the big things that I see emerging is a greater gap between PC’s for business […]
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Top Tips for Festive Computer Shopping The year is now racing toward completion and when I look through my office window I see Musgrave Street traffic at far busier levels than normal. Christmas shopping brings a lot of extra activity and retailers go to great lengths to ‘windows dress’ their latest wares. No retail sector […]
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Dispelling Misconceptions and Myths in the IT Industry Sometimes things happen to remind us that we are all here not only by miracle (no matter which school of thought you belong to) but also pretty much by a wing and a prayer. It is with deep regret that I have learned of the recent passing […]
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