Category Archives for "Corporate"

Byte Me Article 436 – Rural Internet Connections

Is Your Internet Up To Speed? Rural Internet Connections This week we try to clean up some of the confusion surrounding Internet connections.  Unfortunately this is a very subjective and technical topic so I will try to keep things in layman’s terms.  It is also due to the technical & subjective nature of Internet connections […]

Byte Me Article 432 – Your Relationship Status

Are You the Master or the Slave? Master or slave, which would you prefer to be?  Before I get myself into too much trouble here, I need to explain that I am talking about the computer / user relationship that we all have with our PC devices.  We get people coming through the door every […]

Byte Me Article 431 – What Data?

Losing Data Can Be Avoided This week has seen a mixed bag of work at the shop and many of my team away on sick leave.  I had a bout of the man flu myself which saw me take Wednesday off sick.  This is a rare occurrence and one that I am keen to forget […]

Byte Me Article 430 – Computer Maintenance

Keep Your IT Heart Healthy Many of my recent articles have focused on computer upgrades or computer replacement, so today we will place a focus on computer maintenance.  It is all well and good to purchase a reliable and robust PC – but here we are talking about the quality of components like motherboard, CPU, […]

Byte Me Article 427 – IT Myths Updated

Fixing A Slow PC is Worth It Welcome back to another Byte Me instalment and can someone please tell me where the last week has gone?  This year is marching to a close faster than any I can remember so there is no better time than right now to make every day count.  So where […]

Byte Me Article 426 – What we need from you.

Be Ready For Some Questions Today we look at a topic that we battle with everyday at the shop – ‘what we need from you’.  In this case I am referring to the number of questions that we need to ask if we are reinstalling your existing PC or upgrading you to a new one.  […]

Byte Me Article 425 – The Great Cloud Lie

Lies Are Clouding the Issue – The Good, Bad & Ugly of Cloud Based Storage Today we dispel some of the lies, myths and mist associated with cloud computing.  This article will have some appeal to home users but will prove to be vital reading for business owners.  Here we are mostly looking at the […]

Byte Me Article 424 –Robust Laptops

Finding the Perfect Laptop During the last 3 weeks we set out on a quest to find what we believe to be the most reliable and robust modern computing device – or device type on the planet.  Through a process of elimination this search ended in the recommendation of a Micro Desktop computer, such as […]

Byte Me Article 423 – Reliability and Robustness #3

The Reliable, Robust ChampAfter eliminations, we have the device we want This week we continue to sift through the mass of modern computer offerings with an aim of finding the most reliable and robust devices on the market.  In previous weeks we have eliminated computing devices that were flimsy or poorly designed.  We also eliminated […]

Byte Me Article 422 – Reliability & Robustness #2

In Quest of a Robust Laptop Following on from last weeks’ Byte Me article we continue our quest to track down reliability and robustness in the current crop of IT offerings.  So far, we have eliminated mechanical drives, dedicated video cards, multiple storage drives, gaming PC complexity and have given Apple Macs a good side […]