Today we are going to talk about speed, speed and more speed!!! So why do we care so much about speed? I have already heard so many customers say, “I don’t care if it is a bit slow – it will be way quicker than me anyway”. So, what do I say to this? “Rubbish – […]
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Most of the wrapping paper has subsided and too often so has the receipt, the original packaging and sometimes the user manual or setup instructions. IT based Christmas presents will either be currently entertaining and enthralling us or alternately perplexing and annoying us. If your Christmas bonanza falls into this latter category we may have […]
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Office 365 is Best For Email This article will form the last in a 3-part series about email security. We have discussed the email accounts that Internet Service Providers give you as part of your connection fees – along with their various pitfalls and limitations. We have also looked at some of the cloud-based email […]
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Secure Your Email Account Following on from last week’s article about email security today we look at the relative security of different email accounts and their setup. Firstly, lets explain a few things about email accounts. If you have an Internet connection, then this is through an Internet Service Provider (ISP). You pay a monthly […]
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Don’t risk Losing Your Data Today we look at another incident that occurred during the week at the shop. In this case it was a new customer coming in with a data recovery problem. They had purchased an external backup drive from somewhere and had been using it to keep important family photos. In this […]
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Keep Teens Away from PC What does PC stand for in the computer industry? It has always stood for Personal Computer and this forms the very subject of today’s article. Computers are well named as they are both a machine that we entrust with lots of personal information as well as having a myriad of […]
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Do You Repair or Replace? Continuing from last weeks’ article we had Warren deciding on whether to spend $500 on upgrading his old laptop versus spending around $1260 of effectively replacing it. I had initially thought that the replacement option was best – until I sat down with Warren and went through the pros and […]
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Do You Repair or Replace? As often as I can, I like to talk about fresh events that happened at the shop during the last week and this will again form the focus for todays’ article. On Thursday I greeted a new face to business in the form of Warren – a typical home PC […]
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Revive Old PC’s With an SSD Following on from last weeks’ article about what a huge step forward solid-state drives (SSD’s) are over their older mechanical hard drive cousins, this week we look at how and when to implement one of these into an existing PC. We are pushing the sale of these as standard […]
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SSD v’s HDD: Which is Better? Fresh back from 2 weeks off, today’s article will be about breathing new life into old PC’s with the use of a Solid State Drive (SSD). This is a device that can totally replace the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD) that still powers the majority of laptop and […]
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