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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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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Clouds Not as Clever as they Look Over the last few weeks we talked about the now MORE real possibility of losing all of your important data due to recently emerging Internet threats. During these discussions we were always talking about the traditional IT model of storing your own data on your own PC or […]
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What Downloads Do You Need? Last week we wrote about the now happening NBN debacle and looked at exactly how inferior and redundant it is to be considering fibre to the node as opposed to the original NBN idea of fibre to the very doorstep of Australian premises. This week we expand on the subject […]
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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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Beat the Odds, Stay Away from Scammers If you are reading this article and your last name starts with the letter C then please send me $1000! According to statistical information, this should be around 7.5 % of the population and given The Morning Bulletin’s circulation of 20,000 people – this should net me around […]
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Power Fluctuations Cause PC Damage Time passes too quickly and I see that incredibly it has been 15 months since I have done an article on protecting your PC from the certain damage/death associated with power fluctuations. Central Queensland is littered with heavy industry and many of our rural areas have SWER power grids (single […]
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How to Switch Off the Scammers Well most of our regular readers will have heard enough about cloud computing from me for now and I know that the Telco’s want me silenced! This week I will touch on two different subjects, the first of which are our own business hours. For the last 16 years […]
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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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