18th August 2018 At the Mercy of Scammers Last weeks’ article focused on phone scams that are principally being brought about by our largest telco having off shore support call centres. The article has drawn a huge response from the readership with many people coming forward to report similar experiences. In the main what is […]
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11th August 2018 Call out overseas ‘support’ This week we talk about an issue that I feel strongly about and have already mentioned previously. Although in this case we see yet another elderly Aussie that has worked hard all of their life helping to try and make this country great – hit hard in the […]
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4th August 2018 Don’t Believe These IT Myths This week we look at some of the tall tales that are created in our industry and the resulting propagation of often illogical myths. We see so much of this and after running an IT business for over 20 years there are a number of particularly wrong […]
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14th July 2018 Keeping Pace With Gamers This week we look sidewards to […]
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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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30th June 2018 Let’s Get it All Together Now We still get a lot of computers coming in for repair or replacement that have partitioned hard drives. So, what is this all about and is it a good thing? It is often referred to by customers as “so and so split my hard drive for […]
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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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16th June 2018 Desktop or Laptop For You? A question that I get asked several times every week – “should I get a laptop or a desktop”? Customers are often unsure of which way to go here and ask which is the more reliable device. There is no perfect answer on either account as computer […]
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12th May 2018 Avoid the CPU Speed Trap Following on from last weeks’ article on CPU’s matter we have had such an incredible amount of inquiry on CPU specs, that I believe it warranted another article. The Central Procession Unit (CPU) is the brain of any modern computer, whether it be a laptop, desktop or […]
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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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