What is a Router You have probably seen them before. A funny looking alien device which sits in the corner of someones house blinking lights 24/7. But what does a router actually do. Depending on the router you by and all the add-on feature they come with these days, a router fundamentally routes your Internet connection. There are different levels… Read more →
Category: Internet
Adblockers – Best Way to Defend Against Viruses
Anyone who follows my blog will know I am not a great fan of antivirus programs. It’s just I see dozens of computers every month with viruses and they all have some sort of Anti-virus Malware type protection on them. I don’t think they are anywhere as good as they should be and all my customers are certainly under the… Read more →
Spam and Ham eMails
One of the most annoying things in all of computers has to be annoying emails sent to us day in and day out from people who want our attention, money and advertising views. I have one email account which is over 20 years old, which gets thousands of emails every day regarding everything from stuff I wouldn’t want my mother… Read more →
Best Linux Tools – Part 2
This post is a continuation of my recent post, Best Linux Tools – Part 1 Virtualisation Wine For all Windows users out there who just have to have one of their Windows applications running on Linux all is not lost. Wine is a Linux program you run on your Linux computer which executes Windows programs. It all sounds a bit… Read more →
Different Types of Hacks
Hacking is such an old fashioned generic term which to the public meant something like a teenage boy in his basement, trying to get onto a government computer and start a war. When in real life most computer programmers hack away at their computer, writing code. There not only seems to be a lot misconception not only what hacking is,… Read more →
What is Social Media
Everyone has heard of, most of us use it, but what exactly is the buss with all this social media going around? Although Social Media is not specific to computers or laptops, and can be accessed by pretty much any internet connected device like mobile phone, tablet and smart watch, it still gets bought up a lot and a lot… Read more →
Suburb List for NBN 2017 for Townsville and NQ
The NBN has released a lit of suburbs in Townsville and surrounding North Queensland suburbs which will be getting NBN in 2017. Fingers crossed your on the list. Alice River Rangewood Babinda Ellerbeck Cardwell Cullinane Flying Fish Point Innisfail Innisfail Estate Coconuts Belvedere Goondi Bend Goondi Hill Hudson Innisfail Mighell Mundoo Sundown (Cassowary Coast – Qld) Wangan East Innisfail Mourilyan… Read more →
Tech Traveller Tips
I have been travelling all my life. Ever since I was a kid my family moved and travelled all over the place from Indonesia to Europe. Once you catch the bug you never loose it and you always want to travel. Sometimes you know your going on a big trip, other times its a spur of the moment thing, but… Read more →
Wireless Security Townsville
When we are talking about wireless security, the subject can get very deep and dependent on the type of networks we are talking about, what the network does and the amount of money you invested into the infrastructure. For this purpose I am going to be talking about the wireless security for the every day person and how the security… Read more →
Moving Outlook Between Computers
Email can be a very tricky subject. When we talk about email we are referring to something very simple such as a text which appears on our screen, with some images and maybe attachments. It all seems straight forward and from behind the scenes it really is. But where it gets complicated is the type of email you are using,… Read more →