– 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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– General Business What happens at the shop in a week? Five and a half days can disappear in what seems to be the blink of an eye when you are flat out – and we are flat out at present. This is a rather disappointing measure of time considering that we are lucky to […]
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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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-Community Support At this crazy time in our lives it is hard to write a weekly column and not mention the infamous Corona virus. From my own personal point of view the source of most of the fear surrounding this rotten bug is the lack of knowledge of what it can / will do. Nobody […]
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– Corona Virus #3 This week has been flat out again with more customers that either want to home school their kids or work from home themselves. One of the common themes that we are hearing from new customers that are doing the ring around to seek IT help is that they are told by […]
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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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–Win 7 Upgrade Profiteering Last week I wrote about backup systems and was to complete that article here today. Unfortunately we need to interrupt that series to talk about a more urgent topic – profiteering from the demise of Windows 7 support. Regular readers will already know that Microsoft finally dropped further support for its […]
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Business Support This week we had all the techs, our reception manager and myself all doing overtime again due to the number of customers coming in with Windows 7 devices. When Microsoft makes a change such as dropping all further support for Windows 7 it has far reaching world-wide implications! When you consider that about […]
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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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