Asking any IT person to recommend a printer (or a laptop or PC for that matter), is like saying “which car should I buy?” or “which house should I build?”. It strongly depends on what your needs are, as a printer on a network for 10 people in an office printing mainly documents is far…
Messaging, instantly.
Once upon a time, internet chat rooms were pages of text that you had to ‘refresh’ to see a new message, and anyone could intrude on. Fast forward to today, and instant messaging gives us our own private chat rooms (or are they private?) with only the people we want to communicate with (if we…
Loose your Groove
Did I mention how well my laptop has been running since the Vista reinstallation? Oh yeah, except I still haven’t tackled iTunes again 🙂 Here’s one that’s caught me out before .. and, as I didn’t reinstall the applications (hubby did) .. it snuck back in again. Small business owners in Australia & New Zealand may…
A rebuild is a beautiful thing
How long do you put up with a problem before you fix it? Especially if it’s one of those ‘slightly annoying but I can work around it’ type computer problems? Do you wait for a quiet moment at work (yeah, right), or for a time when you are feeling particularly unproductive or are avoiding another…
Save, save, save
Save – of the critial “protect your data” type, not the “look how much money I saved in this sale today type” (though arguably they are just as important as each other). Normally my favourite rant is regarding backups (and, more importantly, testing your data restorations), especially where small business is concerned. And I’m talking…
And I work in I.T.!!!
I’m afraid I’m starting this blog with a technology drama, involving my shiny new iPod Shuffle (2nd generation) and Windows Vista. “Ah yes, Vista” you say knowingly. But at Microsoft’s defence leaps the voice of my dear friend who pointed out that the vendors had the Vista code for 2 years prior to the release, so…