Category Archives for "Software"

Byte Me Article 417 – Micro Towers

Micro Towers Make SenseSave Space as CD-ROM Drive is Almost Obsolete If you are a regular reader, you would have seen in last weeks’ article we talked about how the CD or DVD-ROM device is well and truly heading the way of the Dodo.  There are good reasons for this and it is unlikely that […]

Byte Me Article 416 – CD-ROM End of Life ?

DVD-Rom a Likeable RelicFlashy Design Had Public Mesmerised By Storage Welcome to another Byte Me Article.  Most of these articles focus on new products and developments in the industry, however for a different twist today we will look at a slowly dying product.  The venerable DVD-Rom – or often referred to as the CD-ROM. When […]

Byte Me Article 415 – Scammers Jumping on the NBN Wagon

A New Scam is on the RiseLatest Wave Uses NBN Upgrade As Way Into PC During just the last 2 weeks we have received well in excess of a dozen phone calls from scammers trying to fraudulently extract money.  Mostly it has been during business hours and they have been using the current NBN forced […]

Byte Me Article 414 – Windows 7 End of Life Alternatives

Windows to a Better WorldDo You Need to Update Your Operating System? Ready with a cuppa to sit down to another instalment of Byte Me?  Great, let’s delve into the best path to take if you still have a device running Windows 7 or even 8 / 8.1 for that matter.  Before going too far, […]

Byte Me Article 413 – Windows 7 End of Life

Support is Out the Window Today’s main theme is to get the message out that Microsoft will be ending support for Windows 7 on the 14th of January next year.  Just to set the stage for this discussion we should quickly recant the different versions of Microsoft’s popular “Windows” series of home user operating systems. Windows […]

Byte Me Article 412 – No more HDD’s

Out with HDD, in with SSD Fresh from our mini-series on computer purchase today we get to look at something different and that focus will be on Solid-state Drives (SSD’s) and what they mean to the industry.  Some of you will note that I have already touched on this topic before – but today we […]

Byte Me Article 411 – Getting Help

A-Z In Purchasing A New PCNow You’re Set Up – Look After Your PC’s Health Today we will discuss what to do when things go wrong in the last of our mini-series in the A-Z of computer purchase, as next week we will slay a different type of dragon!  Previous articles should have helped zero […]

Byte Me Article 410 – Essential Software

Bloatware Chokes New PC’sManufacturers Are Guilty of Loading Junk Software Today we are following a trail of articles in an IT mini-series of the A-Z of computer purchase and are now at the stage where we have the PC setup at home and are about to turn it on.  If you have purchased the PC […]

Byte Me Article 400 – PC Purchase – Start of Mini Series

About 2 weeks ago we had a young bloke come into the shop looking to update his laptop.  Kel was retired and had purchased his previous laptop from us at the old shop in June 2013 and had decided that it was time for a replacement.  I talked to Kel for a while about his […]

Byte Me Article 399 – Review of Internet Connections

I was principally going to write this week’s article as a review of the currently available Internet connections, however I have largely covered this material in previous articles and we also have this information available via our www.kerrsolutions.com.au website.  Today I would rather talk about our NBN challenges. Last week I wrote about a friend’s experience with transitioning from […]