Category Archives for "Emails"

Byte Me Article 368 – Advertising Distraction

2nd June 2018 How Much is Too Much How many adverts do you see each day and when are too many ads enough?  If you watch TV then you will already know about the latest deal from Holden or Red Rooster, KFC, Mitre 10 or Comm Bank.  We can’t get away from these and the […]

Byte Me Article 367 – Windows 10 Update 1803

26th May 2018 Updates are Affecting PC’s This week we have been kept very busy with a greater than normal number of dead computers being brought to us.  This increase in dead PC’s has been sparked by Microsoft’s latest updates to its Windows 10 operating system.  So, what is this all about? Previously Microsoft released […]

Byte Me Article 364 – CPU’s Matter

5th May 2018 Don’t Be Stuck With A Lemon It’s happened again!  A good customer of ours in Harvey Bay had their old laptop die suddenly and they thought that they needed to grab something quick.  The result of this was a trip to a local chain electronics store and the purchase of a Hewlett […]

Byte Me Article 363 – Beef Week

28th April 2018 We’re Like Bulls At The Gate I can feel the tempo here in Rockhampton ramping up.  Traffic is getting busier; more jobs are coming through the door and there is getting to be more of a sense of urgency about the place.  There is little wonder with Beef Week kicking off next […]

Byte Me Article 358 – Personal Data

24th March 2018 Know the Social Media Traps Last week we looked at how best to keep log on information and passwords for computer related sites and services.  Today we will look at the security surrounding your personal data on social media sites that you use.  Social media sites comprise the likes of Facebook, Twitter, […]

Byte Me Article 357 – Passwords

17th March 2018 Take Time Choosing Passwords We barely have a day go by without needing to reset a password for a customer or without having to go through a sometimes convoluted password recovery process.  This inevitably happens when we are swapping a customer across to a new computer or even when an email account […]

Byte Me Article 356 – Laptop Purchase #2

10th March 2018 Switch On With Laptop Options Following on from last weeks’ article about laptop reliability and replacement options, this article will look as other weaknesses that are particular to laptops.  One nasty problem that we have seen in particular with Toshiba laptops is that of the screen hinge breaking.  It is hard to […]

Byte Me Article 355 – Laptop Purchase Help

3rd March 2018 A Hard Knock Life For Laptops As is often the case, the basis for today’s article comes from events that transpire at our service centre during the week.  In this instance I was making a coffee out the back and eavesdropping on the conversation that one of my techs was having over […]

Byte Me Article 353 – It’s Your Phone – Just Hang Up

17th February 2018 Look Out For Phone Scammers Today we talk about phones and I can almost hear the cogs turning – why phones all of a sudden?  Because we still have new and existing customers coming through the door every week that have been victim of a phone scam.  With the advent of IP […]

Byte Me Article 352 – Cloud Computing Cont’d

10th February 2018 Is Cloud The Host With The Most? Continued from last weeks’ article about cloud computing we now look more closely at cloud hosting and explain exactly what it is.  Cloud hosting refers to the hire or rent of some computer resources that are remote or external to your point of business.  There […]