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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Users Beginning to Unfriend Facebook For those readers that follow our weekly Byte Me articles I am happy to report that our new customer from last Saturday’s article received their new computers from us on Tuesday as planned and all is finally going smoothly. They have reported that the 5 week long saga of unusable […]
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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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A Few Tricks with Pix on your PC Last week we looked at how photos are stored on a PC (in digital format) and how they are made up of literally millions of individual pixels (coloured dots). Modern scanners and cameras can capture a picture and store it as a digital image in a split […]
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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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NBN Rollout I have been asked to write an article about the state of the NBN rollout in Rockhampton, trying to put some perspective on the situation as well as keeping the article in layman’s terms. This task should prove to be only a little harder than splitting an atom – so here we go! […]
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Portable Devices Can Access PC Software Last week we talked about all of the different devices that are available today – from smart phones through netbooks, tablets, and laptops to All-in-ones and desktop PCs. The main difference between all of these devices being their physical size (all are capable of browsing the Internet). With an […]
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No Perfect Single Device For Everyone We often get asked the question – “what should I buy” when it comes to choosing between smart phones, netbooks, tablets, ultra-books, laptops, all-in-ones and desktop PC’s. And it is little wonder as there has been a plethora of different devices released in the last 5 years, with many […]
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