Check specs before buying a PC– Power Ratings 15 December, 2012 I was out doing my Christmas shopping on Thursday night and found some interest in checking out the IT offerings from some of the retail outlets. The choice is astounding but if I wasn’t already firmly planted in the IT industry then I would […]
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‘Bargain’ PC’s end up as an expensive buy 17 November 2012 Well it has been a crazy week and I can’t remember us being this busy before. The pre-Christmas rush is already well under way! Laptops certainly seem to be the flavour of the week and they have been going out the door like hot […]
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It’s simpler listing what we don’t do 9 November, 2012 What do we do? We are constantly getting asked this question as well as getting asked whether we will also look after home computer users. So, yes we do also look after home users however when it comes to IT a more simple answer is […]
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Latest computer technology has small business users in clouds 3 November, 2012 Pentium, IP Telephony, 64 Bit, Blu-Ray, Bluetooth, Gigabit & Wireless – these have all been major catch phrases that we have heard in computing circles. Now we have a new one – the cloud! So what is cloud computing and will it work […]
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Windows 8 system is pointer to the future 27 October, 2012 If you have read the first few pages of this paper you will have already seen my news article on yesterday’s release of Microsoft’s latest operating system – Windows 8. This is certainly a milestone in the Information Technology world and one that we […]
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Microsoft goes for share of touchscreen users with Windows 8 – Tapping into new market 27 October, 2012 Microsoft’s latest operating system – Windows 8 was released to Australian consumers just yesterday and it’s heralding a huge change in the way we will operate mainstream computers and laptops. Many are suggesting that this is the […]
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-Sometimes it’s better to ditch it… not fix it 13 October, 2012 I know that we are supposed to be encouraging ‘green’ living but the pace of technology and the cost of wages often makes this harder. We had an interesting example this Wednesday when a new customer bought in a fairly standard home laptop. […]
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-A simple restart is possibly all that is needed to fix a problem 6 October, 2012 Let’s face it – a lot of people have a lot of trouble with their PC’s. What do they do? Unfortunately many go off searching the depths of their PC in amongst the control panel and system settings looking […]
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Learn warning signs to beginning of the end of your PC’s hard drive 29 September, 2012 Last week we talked about hard drives and in particular how solid state drives will slowly replace the traditional rotating electromagnetic hard drives that have been popular for the last 25 years. The hard drive is the small internal […]
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Small, but mighty powerful 22 September, 2012 Today we are going to look at one aspect of computer hardware – the hard drive. We find that the hard drive is often incorrectly labelled as many people refer to their entire computer tower as the hard drive. In fact the hard drive is just one of […]
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