25th August 2018 Let’s Get Down to the Fax What fax machine? I can remember having a day off from Baralaba High School because Dad & Mum needed to make a special trip in to Rockhampton to purchase a fax machine – which was urgently needed at the time to transfer some business documents. Now, […]
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11th August 2018 Call out overseas ‘support’ This week we talk about an issue that I feel strongly about and have already mentioned previously. Although in this case we see yet another elderly Aussie that has worked hard all of their life helping to try and make this country great – hit hard in the […]
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4th August 2018 Don’t Believe These IT Myths This week we look at some of the tall tales that are created in our industry and the resulting propagation of often illogical myths. We see so much of this and after running an IT business for over 20 years there are a number of particularly wrong […]
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28th July 2018 Game Speed Comes at a Price This week will be our final article on the topic of computers built specifically for playing fast paced computer games – gaming rigs. Over the last two Saturday’s we have talked about the objectives of a gaming rig and we have looked at some of the […]
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21st July 2018 The Right Gear for Gamers We received so much feedback about last weeks’ article on Gaming Rigs that a more in depth follow up seems like a good idea. We discussed what is required of a gaming rig and how they are at the forefront of computer technology. Extreme computer power is […]
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14th July 2018 Keeping Pace With Gamers This week we look sidewards to […]
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7th July 2018 Match Storage to Your Needs Last week we talked about partitioning a hard drive to make it look like multiple hard drives. For the vast majority of users this has far more disadvantages than not. This week we look at the option of having multiple physical hard drives in a computer – […]
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23rd June 2018 A Taxing Time For Upgrades The 30th of June is rapidly approaching and as we know it brings with it the age-old business chant of ‘Tax Time’. For all Australian businesses it spells the last day of the year to possibly spend some money on a business-related expense and claim some or […]
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9th June 2018 Tech Support Needed Now We are now open Saturdays! Why are we doing this? Our industry is mostly about 3 main things – initial purchase, ongoing support and disaster recovery. The initial purchase of a device can usually wait for a few days to get an exact model into stock or to […]
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12th May 2018 Avoid the CPU Speed Trap Following on from last weeks’ article on CPU’s matter we have had such an incredible amount of inquiry on CPU specs, that I believe it warranted another article. The Central Procession Unit (CPU) is the brain of any modern computer, whether it be a laptop, desktop or […]
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