I’ve been excited about the HTC Touch Pro phone since somebody showed me it on a website in about July. http://www.htc.com/au/product.aspx?id=62326 Holding out for news of an Australian release date was marred by Telstra picking up exclusive rights to the HTC Touch Diamond – the Pro’s little brother without the keyboard. After seeing an Oct…
MYOB update download corrupting registry?
Thanks to the team at First Class Accounts for passing on their experience with a downloaded update from MYOB. Could have been due to the file becoming corrupted during the download process. After downloading and installing the new MYOB from the internet (Accounting Plus V18 or Premier V12), someone went to shut down her computer and found it would not…
All quiet on the western front …
Am I tempting fate by saying the current volume of ‘standard’ PC problems is rather low at the moment? By ‘standard’, I mean the usual suspects – hardware failures, viruses and Windows corruptions. You think that would worry a computer service company – think again! We’re loving the more interesting side of our business ……
Australian shops in spam subject
Recently my hotmail account junk e-mail filter has been catching some rather ‘Australian-targeted’ spam. Often with a sender of ‘Thanks for participating!’, ‘Much Thanks!’, the subject lines claim to have a voucher pending for me from an Australian store like Myer, Wollworths or JB-Hi Fi (though I’ve also seen an iPhone one too). The company is…
When AVG goes bad
Intermittant but far too frequent STOP blue screen messages seen on Windows XP with AVG 8.0 Internet Security (the one with the firewall component). Strange thing is, the blue screen often mentions things like IRQL errors, so it may lead you down a faulty hardware path. Turns out the AVG 8.0 firewall can be the…
Technology moves
Well, the whole office moved really, this weekend. And in a rare moment of quite, surrounded by not quite as many boxes, I thought it was about time I added a new blog post. Can you tell things around here have been a little busy? So, a couple of tips for moving your technology (which…