7th July 2018 Match Storage to Your Needs Last week we talked about partitioning a hard drive to make it look like multiple hard drives. For the vast majority of users this has far more disadvantages than not. This week we look at the option of having multiple physical hard drives in a computer – […]
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23rd June 2018 A Taxing Time For Upgrades The 30th of June is rapidly approaching and as we know it brings with it the age-old business chant of ‘Tax Time’. For all Australian businesses it spells the last day of the year to possibly spend some money on a business-related expense and claim some or […]
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9th June 2018 Tech Support Needed Now We are now open Saturdays! Why are we doing this? Our industry is mostly about 3 main things – initial purchase, ongoing support and disaster recovery. The initial purchase of a device can usually wait for a few days to get an exact model into stock or to […]
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2nd June 2018 How Much is Too Much How many adverts do you see each day and when are too many ads enough? If you watch TV then you will already know about the latest deal from Holden or Red Rooster, KFC, Mitre 10 or Comm Bank. We can’t get away from these and the […]
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26th May 2018 Updates are Affecting PC’s This week we have been kept very busy with a greater than normal number of dead computers being brought to us. This increase in dead PC’s has been sparked by Microsoft’s latest updates to its Windows 10 operating system. So, what is this all about? Previously Microsoft released […]
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5th May 2018 Don’t Be Stuck With A Lemon It’s happened again! A good customer of ours in Harvey Bay had their old laptop die suddenly and they thought that they needed to grab something quick. The result of this was a trip to a local chain electronics store and the purchase of a Hewlett […]
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28th April 2018 We’re Like Bulls At The Gate I can feel the tempo here in Rockhampton ramping up. Traffic is getting busier; more jobs are coming through the door and there is getting to be more of a sense of urgency about the place. There is little wonder with Beef Week kicking off next […]
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31st March 2018 Claws Out For Weekend Fun Thanks for taking the time to read another one of my articles, although I must ask of you what the time is right now? If it is anywhere between 9am and 5pm Saturday then I also must ask, why are you reading this now and why you […]
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24th March 2018 Know the Social Media Traps Last week we looked at how best to keep log on information and passwords for computer related sites and services. Today we will look at the security surrounding your personal data on social media sites that you use. Social media sites comprise the likes of Facebook, Twitter, […]
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17th March 2018 Take Time Choosing Passwords We barely have a day go by without needing to reset a password for a customer or without having to go through a sometimes convoluted password recovery process. This inevitably happens when we are swapping a customer across to a new computer or even when an email account […]
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