– Hero by a Thread Interestingly Telstra failed to comment on last weeks’ article? This week we look at another job that is still at the office right now to be sorted ready to go out next Tuesday. In this case it is a 6-year-old HP Envy 17.3” laptop that was a beauty in its […]
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– Business Support #2 Following on from my article last week on all of us looking after Australia more than we have in previous years, this week we take a step further and look at buying local. Why buy local? The simple answer is to ask yourself – do you like living in Central Queensland, […]
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– Computer Specs 4 Continuing our quest to obtain and maintain a useful PC, this week we delve further into the significance of some of the computer specs that are floating around in our industry. The next widely mis-understood performance parameter that we need to look at is the video card. Often referred to as […]
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– Computer Specs 3 Continuing on our quest to obtain and maintain a useful PC, this week we delve further into the significance of some of the computer specs that are floating around in our industry. Most hardware manufacturers know that their typical target buyers struggle to understand the relevance of most of the published […]
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– Computer Specs 2 Following on from last week, today we continue to discuss why a computer appears to slow down over time and how we can reduce or ‘manage’ this slow down. As we have already mentioned, a computers’ brain (the CPU) does not slow down with age, but rather the software it is […]
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– Computer Specs Today we are going with an age-old pet topic of mine regarding computer specs and hence computer performance. Over the years we have seen many changes in computer hardware come and go. We have seen CD Rom’s, DVD Rom’s and more recently Blue Ray disks come and largely go again. We have […]
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– Tips from the Team Dear Readers, today marks the end of a special era for us with this final printed edition being Byte Me article number 471. Aptly named by my good friend Shannon, the ‘Byte Me’ articles over the last 10 years have touched on literally 100’s of different computer topics and have […]
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– Microsoft Edge This article is the 2nd last that I will write for the printed version of The Morning Bulletin. If you have not already subscribed to their online edition, I would highly recommend that you do so now. Alternatively, if you do not currently have a computer and I know there are several of […]
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– Alyssa Joins Us Today marks the 3rd last printed version of my Byte Me articles as we draw toward the end of June and the end of 159 years of printed Morning Bulletin papers! After the end of June these articles will be available from the online version of The Morning Bulletin and from our […]
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– Tip & Tricks As we head toward the sad demise of our printed paper, I will try to make the most of my remaining articles before they are only available online. After the end of June they can be accessed via the Morning Bulletin online portal or via our own website. Todays’ article is […]
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