It’s True You Get What You Pay For Apologies to all of my readers that are home PC users as this article is directed solely at business owners. I often use these articles to ramble on about the differences between modern, reliable, well setup PC’s and the alternate pieces of frustrating electronic junk. Unfortunately, when […]
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Keep Daily Backups of Your Work Once upon a time man used to chisel important verse into stone. This was thought to be a great method of safe keeping and it was expected to last many years. After going to this much trouble I suggest that they also had the presence of mind to store […]
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Shop Around for Email Hosting This weeks’ article is directed specifically at Businesses that are using Telstra to host their email accounts. If you have your own domain name through Telstra or anyone else and are using Telstra to host your email accounts then you will be told that this system is getting decommissioned. You […]
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Stunned by all the Greed and Lies I have just finished a 51 minute phone call with the Internet service provider ‘dodo’ and I am furious! Some of our home customers that are using dodo for their Internet have reported to us that dodo is advising them to purchase Windows 7 with a new PC??? […]
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Hazards to self Installing New PC The number of new customers coming to us replacing a 6 to 10 year old Windows XP computer before Microsoft drops support for them in 3 days’ time, is simply astounding. This also forms the basis for another Byte Me article – I have just got my new computer […]
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Many Choices When Upgrading If you have been reading these articles lately then I am sure you are well aware of the so called ‘end of life’ of Microsoft Windows XP. I was going to make last weeks’ article the final one on the topic however I am simply amazed at the magnitude of the […]
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Keep your Head Out of the Clouds Businesses should be going to cloud computing – what a load of glossy advertising! Businesses need to be well aware of the costs and limitations of cloud computing before jumping on this band wagon! Just because we have been logging into our Internet Banking sites (a cloud site) […]
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Crystal Ball on Computing in 2014 This being the last Byte Me Article for 2013 has me reflecting on the current direction of computing & where I think we will see it heading during the next 12 months. One of the big things that I see emerging is a greater gap between PC’s for business […]
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No Delight with Desktop Invasion I often harp on about the number of junk emails and pop ups we get via the Internet and how they can be a nuisance in the least but are often a disaster in the waiting. What should belong to us as ‘our own desktop’ or ‘work area’ on our […]
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Clouds Not as Clever as they Look Over the last few weeks we talked about the now MORE real possibility of losing all of your important data due to recently emerging Internet threats. During these discussions we were always talking about the traditional IT model of storing your own data on your own PC or […]
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