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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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 […]
Continue readingWe haven’t had any local rain for 10 days now and yet our Fitzroy River is still yet to peak! It drives home that fact that Rockhampton is built in a flood basin and it shows just how far reaching the catchment area is. The only fortunate thing about our current flooding is the amount […]
Continue readingToday is the final article about phone scams and hackers. We have already looked at the popular scam of impersonating a Telstra or Microsoft employee and gaining access to a computer by randomly calling land lines. There are many other sinister ways that overseas groups use to gain money from unsuspecting Australians and some of […]
Continue readingFollowing a spate of different phone scams this article should serve as a timely reminder to not only be vigilant yourself but to also talk about the subject with friends and neighbours. The only reason these vultures exist is that they are still making good money from trusting victims which will continue until there is […]
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25th February 2017 What Screen Size Suits You Every week I have customers coming through the doors asking for my IT advice on what they should buy. Before getting down to brand names, gigahertz and megabytes you have to decide which type of device will best suit your needs and this can be confusing enough. […]
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18th February 2017 How Much Speed Is Enough After last weeks’ article about the latest 7th generation Intel CPU’s I had several people asking us the benchmark rating on our computers. Our base desktop PC has a 7th generation Intel Pentium G4560 CPU which has a benchmark rating of 5,094. This is what we recommend […]
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How Much Speed is Enough? If you follow what is happening in the hardware world with computers, then you will be aware that processor manufacturer Intel has recently released its latest Generation 7 series of (CPU’s) central processor units. Intel is by far the biggest player in this industry and it is the computers’ CPU […]
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Backyard Advice Won’t Cut It Running the shop here each week one of the points that always strikes me it the number of people that come in asking for XYZ product or software as their nephew’s best mate told them it was the bees knees. Unless the nephew’s best mate still works full time in […]
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