Category Archives for "Emails"

Byte Me Article 487 – Christmas Cheer

– Christmas Cheer As Christmas rapidly approaches we need to focus on keeping our money in our bank for the items we either need or want, rather than giving it to a computer scammer that will happily lie, cheat and steal to whisk it away from us. Tis the season to be jolly and unfortunately […]

Byte Me Article 475 – Email Filtering 3

– Email Filtering 3 Next week we will look at an email filtering service that actually works and offers a return on investment that can be 50 times its minuscule monthly cost.  This week we will round out our previous 2 articles about email security and in particular today talk about email filtering.  We have […]

Byte Me Article 474 – Email Filtering 2

– Email Filtering 2 Staying on topic from last week’s article about modern email threats, we have already discussed Phishing emails, Social Engineering emails and now need to look at Scam emails and Virus emails.  A Scam email is wanting to get your money.  It can be a tear jerker playing on your good generosity […]

Byte Me Article 473 – Email Filtering

– Email Filtering Following on from last weeks’ article about emails and how useful they are, this week we look at the problems associated with having an email address and how to overcome these.  The single biggest problem with using an email address is getting unwanted messages delivered to your inbox.  These unwanted messages come […]

Byte Me Article 472 – Bulletin Online Only

– Bulletin Online Only Welcome to a continuation of our Byte Me articles in the Bulletin ‘Online only’ format.  We will continue to keep you alerted and up to date with many of the developments in our industry and hope to also save you money among the way.  One of the advantages with the online […]

Byte Me Article 467 – General Business

– General Business What happens at the shop in a week?  Five and a half days can disappear in what seems to be the blink of an eye when you are flat out – and we are flat out at present.  This is a rather disappointing measure of time considering that we are lucky to […]

Byte Me Article 457 – Corona Virus

–Corona Virus Hello to our regular and possible some new readers.  Firstly let me apologise for the lack of an article last week.  We have been so busy at the shop that I could not even try to find the time to write another article and I am pushing deadlines right now (Friday afternoon at […]

Byte Me Article 456 – Security 2

–Security 2 Following on from last weeks’ article about Internet security, this week we look at both what you can do to stay safe and what we can do to help keep you safe.  I say this with the emphasis on the end user as taken to the nth degree – if you were to […]

Byte Me Article 451 – What is a backup

What is a backup I have now written 450 Byte Me Articles over the last 10 years with the first article being published on the 6th of Feb 2010.  I see that during this time I have covered the topic of data backups nearly 20 times, however at the risk of annoying regular readers I also […]

Byte Me Article 444 – Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office Following on from last weeks’ article where we opened a can of worms, we had better continue here today to talk about all the different versions of Microsoft Office.  There have been so many different versions of Office and different license structures that a dedicated article is needed to help dispel myths and […]