Category Archives for "Software"

Byte Me Article 133 – Protect your closest relationships

Protect Your Closest Relationships Computers are your own personal confidant – you often trust them with your deepest and most important secrets as well as the information that is most vital to your business or your very existence!  You trust them with personal emails to friends and loved ones, with important letters to solicitors, with […]

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Byte Me Article 131 – Beware ‘virus’ offers of help as often fake

Beware ‘Virus’ Offers of Help as Often Fake You are happily browsing the Internet and all of a sudden your computer is telling you that you have viruses – a screen has popped up, it looks authentic, it may even be doing a scan or listing files that are already infected.  This same screen will […]

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Byte Me Article 119 – Hurry, society to keep youth sane and safe

Hurry, Society to Keep Youth Sane and Safe Where are we going with Information Technology in the next 10 years?  Keeping pace with changes in IT is at its all-time hardest right now – there have never been so many new technologies being thrust upon the market. Will this pace of technological innovation slow down […]

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Byte Me Article 118 – When the expert help doesn’t quite work

When the Expert Help Doesn’t Quite Work A day in IT can mean a big difference.  This is certainly the case for a local mechanical business who first called us around 10am one morning with ‘computer problems’.  An hour later I was onsite with Brad – one of our computer techs finding an absolute kaleidoscope […]

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Byte Me Article 117 – Computer scammer shreds couple’s data

Computer Scammer Shreds Couple’s Data This week we have a shocking story provided by an elderly couple from Gracemere who came to us mid-week after a very bad experience.  In this case they had received a phone call from a lady claiming that she was from Telstra (this is a different approach to claiming that […]

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Byte Me Article 114 – Low power rating will slow down your PC

Low Power Rating Will Slow Down Your PCCPU’s Matter 9 March, 2013 It’s happened again – my pet peeve!  I was called to a new customers’ office because of a ‘few’ things going wrong.  One of those things was a new PC which was reported to be running slow.  I had a look at this […]

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Byte Me Article 113 – Businesses behind in IT

Businesses Behind in ITBusiness IT Special 2 March, 2013 Yesterday at midday the ‘Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland’ held a Webinar (called – Digital Readiness Study: The Results) to – discuss the results of a study!  The study involved a sample of 700 businesses and how they have or haven’t adopted digital technologies to […]

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