Recipe for Success Barney and Andie want to thank everyone for the lovely comments following last weeks’ article. Due to their newfound popularity they have already put in for a pay rise and are strutting with an extra skip in their step – what wags! The topic for this week, however, is much more boring! […]
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-Corona Virus #2 This week has been flat out with supplying laptops, micro towers and screens to people needing to work from home. We have also sold a heap of our ‘back to school’ laptops for parents that want their kids to study from home. In fact, Corona has so far made us busier than […]
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–Backup Final I wrote an article last week without realising exactly how many customers we had with Avast anti-virus; however it has been great to catch up again with our more regular customers and it surely keeps my techs on their toes! For regular readers looking for a conclusion to the backup article that I […]
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–What is a backup 2 Today we will try to return to completing our backup article from 2 weeks ago, however there is one important point that needs to be covered first. There are many anti-virus products that are on the market that all offer to help keep you safe from viruses or malware or […]
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Back to School Mid-January has already passed, and we are not far from the going back to school time of the year. This time of the year can cause headaches for families when they try to dissect the IT information flyer that their school has sent home regarding the necessary specs for a school laptop. […]
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Fake Support Beware Antivirus Site Hacks The response from readers to last weeks’ insurance article has been welcomed. It appears that Cyber Insurance is a hot topic at present, so this hit a cord with many readers. This week, again due to recent customer experiences, we look a little closer at the technical support offered […]
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Do We Need Cyber Insurance? This week we jump left field and look at a new topic that is still focussed directly on the IT arena, the topic of Cyber Insurance. Over the last few weeks I have noticed an increase of calls from our customers inquiring about whether they should take up the offer […]
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Losing Data Can Be Avoided This week has seen a mixed bag of work at the shop and many of my team away on sick leave. I had a bout of the man flu myself which saw me take Wednesday off sick. This is a rare occurrence and one that I am keen to forget […]
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Finding the Perfect Laptop During the last 3 weeks we set out on a quest to find what we believe to be the most reliable and robust modern computing device – or device type on the planet. Through a process of elimination this search ended in the recommendation of a Micro Desktop computer, such as […]
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Picking up where we left off 2 weeks ago with our A-Z of computer purchase mini-series, this week we look at the stage of getting the new PC home. In case you have made a purchase mistake or ever need to send it away for warranty, be careful with the packaging. Given a little care you should be able to unbox the new device and re-box all the packaging to be kept safe ‘just in case’
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