How Apple Stacks Up Against Regular PC’s Only 5 years ago when you used the ‘Apple’ name in the average Australian household you were referring to a piece of fruit – how things can change! Apple with their iMac (desktop PC), MacBook (laptop), iPad (tablet PC), iPad Mini (mini tablet) & iPhone(mobile phone) have a […]
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Server Myths and Lies Those of you that read last Saturday’s article know that I went to an Innovation Forum – basically a technology expo here in Rocky, pitched at local businesses to provide sound IT advice. It was a great idea hosted by a good organisation but sidelined by the sponsors. I left at […]
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Cloud Computing Not Always Best Solution I have just finished attending the Festival of Innovation – a Thursday event hosted at the Rockhampton Leagues Club. Several guest speakers including the ‘Gadgetguy’ and local business presenters extolling the virtues of our technological age and all things that connect to the Internet. The advantage of these technologies […]
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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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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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Breakdown is a Timely WarningWhen Technology Fails 2 February, 2013 We have to take our hats off to the Morning Bulletin! Through hell and high water the paper has still reliably kept us up-to-date with news and events, even when phones, email and Internet have been in chaos. All 3 of our own Business grade […]
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It’s simpler listing what we don’t do 9 November, 2012 What do we do? We are constantly getting asked this question as well as getting asked whether we will also look after home computer users. So, yes we do also look after home users however when it comes to IT a more simple answer is […]
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Latest computer technology has small business users in clouds 3 November, 2012 Pentium, IP Telephony, 64 Bit, Blu-Ray, Bluetooth, Gigabit & Wireless – these have all been major catch phrases that we have heard in computing circles. Now we have a new one – the cloud! So what is cloud computing and will it work […]
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Windows 8 system is pointer to the future 27 October, 2012 If you have read the first few pages of this paper you will have already seen my news article on yesterday’s release of Microsoft’s latest operating system – Windows 8. This is certainly a milestone in the Information Technology world and one that we […]
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Microsoft goes for share of touchscreen users with Windows 8 – Tapping into new market 27 October, 2012 Microsoft’s latest operating system – Windows 8 was released to Australian consumers just yesterday and it’s heralding a huge change in the way we will operate mainstream computers and laptops. Many are suggesting that this is the […]
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