Beat the Odds, Stay Away from Scammers If you are reading this article and your last name starts with the letter C then please send me $1000! According to statistical information, this should be around 7.5 % of the population and given The Morning Bulletin’s circulation of 20,000 people – this should net me around […]
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Making PC a Totally Teenager-Free Zone Most often the source for these articles is what we have seen happen during the week at the shop. This is the case again today as we have recently had a number of work / business computers brought in with problems which only stem from their use. The term […]
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Portable Devices Can Access PC Software Last week we talked about all of the different devices that are available today – from smart phones through netbooks, tablets, and laptops to All-in-ones and desktop PCs. The main difference between all of these devices being their physical size (all are capable of browsing the Internet). With an […]
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Protect Your Closest Relationships Computers are your own personal confidant – you often trust them with your deepest and most important secrets as well as the information that is most vital to your business or your very existence! You trust them with personal emails to friends and loved ones, with important letters to solicitors, with […]
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Beware ‘Virus’ Offers of Help as Often Fake You are happily browsing the Internet and all of a sudden your computer is telling you that you have viruses – a screen has popped up, it looks authentic, it may even be doing a scan or listing files that are already infected. This same screen will […]
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Haunted by that Random Upload Information Technology (IT) – some days you love it and some days you hate it. The brilliant advances that have taken place in the last 10 years due to advances in IT are unfortunately tempered somewhat by the problems that have also been introduced. We now have the unprecedented ability […]
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Backup and Ease Up Program Overhaul In the last couple of weeks we have seen a larger than usual number of customers joining us with disasters on hand because they have no backup of their important data. It is VERY important to realise that even putting your data on a ‘backup drive’ is not like […]
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How to Switch Off the Scammers Well most of our regular readers will have heard enough about cloud computing from me for now and I know that the Telco’s want me silenced! This week I will touch on two different subjects, the first of which are our own business hours. For the last 16 years […]
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Cloud Computing Not Always Best Solution I have just finished attending the Festival of Innovation – a Thursday event hosted at the Rockhampton Leagues Club. Several guest speakers including the ‘Gadgetguy’ and local business presenters extolling the virtues of our technological age and all things that connect to the Internet. The advantage of these technologies […]
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Support choice can prove a real long shot This week we gained another customer due to someone with a phone and an Internet connection based somewhere in the world offering remote support, but this time with a different twist. Often we get new customers that have fallen prey to various phone scams – callers claiming […]
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