What You Need In A Laptop This weeks’ progression of our A-Z miniseries of computer purchase is focused on the actual purchase. If you have been keeping up with these articles then you should already be zeroed in on what you want, however we will summarise these points below. I’m hoping that you have had […]
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Welcome to the first of our mini-series on the A-Z of computer purchase. Existing PC owners probably want to skip this section, but anyone sitting on the fence of computer ownership should read on. I started in the IT field back in 1996 when it was simply easier to type my University Engineering & Business […]
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Today we are looking at a regular scenario of a customer getting into technical strife because of rain. It so happened to one of my friends just 3 weeks ago when we finally had some rain, that their Internet suddenly slowed. This was the start of a long-winded saga. For the purposes of this article let’s […]
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Today we are going to talk about speed, speed and more speed!!! So why do we care so much about speed? I have already heard so many customers say, “I don’t care if it is a bit slow – it will be way quicker than me anyway”. So, what do I say to this? “Rubbish – […]
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Christmas is coming upon us quicker than I can ever remember and like myself, I am sure there will be many that are yet to purchase presents. An IT based present can light up the eyes of the recipient but can also be a flop. There are an endless number of new gadgets around just […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Keep Teens Away from PC What does PC stand for in the computer industry? It has always stood for Personal Computer and this forms the very subject of today’s article. Computers are well named as they are both a machine that we entrust with lots of personal information as well as having a myriad of […]
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