Tablets Are Not Right For Everyone Following on from last weeks’ article that highlighted a couple of IT suggestions for your Christmas shopping list we have had several requests for further information. In this case readers have been asking why tablets have such small hard drives. The same question has also come from one of […]
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IT Trends on Christmas Wish List As we rapidly approach the end of yet another year Christmas shopping becomes another daunting task for many. One of the purposes of this column was to keep readers educated on the latest IT trends, to help readers avoid some of the pitfalls of delving into IT and most […]
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Fortune Spent on Bad Technology When a week passes at the shop it can often provide the basis for one of these articles and that has proved to be the case for today. We had a new customer come to us in dire straits with a PC that was giving all sorts of grief however […]
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Internet Upgrade Not Fast Enough For this third & final article about our ‘Internet Connection Speeds’, we look at what the NBN is or was promising. As pointed out previously, the underground copper cabling that was in some cases laid decades ago was never designed to carry the amount of information that modern and future […]
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PC vs Mac? The Debate Goes On I still have no concrete news to report to regular readers that have been following my own home Internet debacle so I will report on this at a later date. This week we will look at the old PC vs Mac debate and try to make some sense […]
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Watch Out for Online Scammers For several weeks now I have been keen to report on regained Internet speed by changing back to Telstra from Optus. However, despite having several people from very high up in their chain of command calling me personally to offer any ‘assistance that I require’ I still have no home […]
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Deciding When to Replace Your PC For the last 2 Byte Me articles I have talked about Optus’ lack of Internet uplink bandwidth at my local (Frenchville) exchange. Despite the newspaper articles and the paper actually giving them all of my contact details, I am yet to hear from any of their representatives regarding this […]
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Good Prices But Consider Speed This week I need to postpone another Windows 10 update to talk about my own very recent experience with an attempt to upgrade my home phone plan. What had driven this change was the carrot of monthly savings and more features. It all sounded like a great idea and I […]
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Open the Windows of Upgrades Free upgrade to Windows 10! This is the catch cry many retailers are using to help sell their wares. If you are in the market for a new PC then this is nothing special. Anyone who purchases a new PC from now until the next version of Windows is able […]
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Resolution More than Meets the Eye Following on from last weeks’ article about computer screen connections, this week we look at screen resolution and refresh rates and their effect on the overall computer experience. This is a particularly ‘hot’ topic as it also relates to the current crop of new ultra-high definition TV’s as much […]
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