Category Archives for "Corporate"

Byte Me Article 391 – Email Security 3

Office 365 is Best For Email This article will form the last in a 3-part series about email security.  We have discussed the email accounts that Internet Service Providers give you as part of your connection fees – along with their various pitfalls and limitations.  We have also looked at some of the cloud-based email […]

Byte Me Article 390 – Email Security 2

Secure Your Email Account Following on from last week’s article about email security today we look at the relative security of different email accounts and their setup.  Firstly, lets explain a few things about email accounts.  If you have an Internet connection, then this is through an Internet Service Provider (ISP).  You pay a monthly […]

Byte Me Article 389 – Email Security

Protect yourself from Hacks Today we focus on the increasingly critical issue of email security.  Many will think that they can’t be impacted by this topic – not true, unless you don’t have an email address.  Many will think that all email services will have the same security – not true.  Many will think that […]

Byte Me Article 387 – Data Recovery

Don’t risk Losing Your Data Today we look at another incident that occurred during the week at the shop.  In this case it was a new customer coming in with a data recovery problem.  They had purchased an external backup drive from somewhere and had been using it to keep important family photos.  In this […]

Byte Me Article 382 – Breathe new life into old PC

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 […]

Byte Me Article 381 -Outsourcing IT

Details ‘Lost in Translation‘ This week has definitely been the week of help with outsourced IT jobs.  We have had a multitude of jobs from large IT companies (some of them based overseas), getting us to go onsite to local branches to help with diagnostics or new deployments.  While this keeps us busy you still […]

Byte Me Article 380 – Best Email Setup

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, […]

Byte Me Article 373 – Multiple Hard Drives

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 – […]

Byte Me Article 372 – Hard Drive Partitioning

30th June 2018 Let’s Get it All Together Now We still get a lot of computers coming in for repair or replacement that have partitioned hard drives.  So, what is this all about and is it a good thing?  It is often referred to by customers as “so and so split my hard drive for […]