Opt for a Good Laptop, Not a Lemon This week has seen a huge number of laptop sales completed and it brings up some interesting points for the basis of this article. With so much choice around and manufacturers turning out new models on a near monthly basis what separates a good laptop from a […]
Continue readingSmart Phones More User-friendly Following on from last week’s article about smart phones I have now been using Samsung’s latest offering, the Galaxy S7 for a week. I transitioned to this new phone from a Samsung Note 3 which I have used for the last two years. I can report without hesitation that just two […]
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Smart Phones Changed Our Lives Today’s article will look at a device that has become so popular and so sort after that most people believe they can’t ever live without one – the smart phone. How technology can drive trends is nothing short of viral and the evidence is everywhere you walk, especially if you […]
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Internet Connection Explained Continuing on from last week we are still looking at ‘wireless’ connections and start with what to do if your Wireless Internet connection is running slow. Here we are referring to Internet connections that are given names like 3G, 4G, 4GX, Next G, Wireless Broadband, Wireless Hotspot and even tethering. Last week […]
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Don’t Clutter Up a New Computer Today we discuss one of the main issues facing users that are wanting to upgrade their PC – the issue of data retention or the more often referred to data transfer from the old PC to the new. What we are talking about here is all of the files […]
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Take Care with Windows Upgrade After last weeks’ article we have had huge enquiry on the free Windows 7 & Windows 8 upgrade to the latest Windows 10. Mostly people have heard plenty of nasty stories about failed upgrades as I mentioned last week. In fact some of these failed upgrades have seen a previously […]
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Don’t Hesitate to Update Windows This week we are looking at the currently free Windows 10 upgrade and what is going to happen in this area in the next 6 months. Microsoft released their Windows 10 operating system on the 29th of July last year and created a milestone at the time by making the […]
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Frustrations Continue with Optus Regular readers of this column will remember the challenges that I faced last year with changing my home phone and Internet services across to Optus. I thought that I could save money and have extra services by going to a ‘Big Business Plan’ that Optus offered to encapsulate all of my […]
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Technology Continues to Evolve As the year rapidly draws to a close I can’t help but reflect on what it has meant for us working in the IT field. There have been heaps of new or refined technologies released in the form of both hardware and software and we can’t overlook all of the web […]
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Internet Times Speedily Changing We have had some good responses to the latest articles about NBN and ‘the Internet of things’ with several people asking for further explanation on why we need greater Internet speeds. This weeks’ article will attempt to answer that question in some more depth. At all times it needs to be […]
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