– Be wary online at Christmas time Christmas 2012 is approaching faster that a jet powered Santa sleigh! Even our shop has got in on the act – with decorations and flashing USB powered Christmas trees, which one of techs loves so much! However amongst this cheer we also see a huge increase in the […]
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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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– What our technicians do in staying updated 20 October, 2012 Information Technology (IT) – some people hate it, some embrace it and some just try to ignore it! I think in many respects one of the deciding factors here is if you are a person that likes change. For those that don’t, certainly 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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Don’t fry your hard drive 8 September, 2012 Our short lived winter is fast diminishing and we are already starting to feel the heat of another long CQ summer. It is also time to spare a thought for your PC which is susceptible to temperature changes as well. There are a few things we can […]
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1 September, 2012 Does the average Joe really appreciate the pace of technology? I found myself in Mackay early this week installing a new server. While there the customer also asked me to take a look at one of their computers that was running slow – which turned out to be the understatement of the […]
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-Keep PC software disks safe 25 August, 2012 IT is already the end of August and soon the big retailers will tempt us with their Christmas wares. A year goes too quick and after only 3 or 4 of them that ‘new’ PC that you bought ‘recently’ has pretty much lived its day. Unfortunately at […]
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