A lot of people use Microsoft Outlook and with good reason. Outlook has been around a long time and does a very good job at all things calendar, contacts and emails. But the main reason most of us know about Outlook is because it comes with Microsoft Office, not because everyone decided to go out and buy it. So Microsoft… Read more →
Say Goodbye to Microsoft Pain
Just about everyone uses or has used Microsoft Paint at one time or another. The program in itself is not feature rich but a handy utility to quickly make little edits to images when quality is not really an issue. It is light weight, fast, free, comes with Microsoft Windows, and on its way out. Microsoft have recently published a… Read more →
Which is the best Antivirus for you
People ask me all the time which is the best antivirus program for their Microsoft Windows computer. This is probably the hardest question to answer, as there is no one shoe fits all strategy here. There is a clear difference in what anti-viruses corporate businesses should use who host web sites, servers and data sets. But when it comes to… Read more →
Fruitfly Apple Mac Virus
Apple Computers Do Get Viruses The common belief is Apple Mac computer do not get viruses. Yes, Apple Macs are built on top of a foundation which viruses find it hard to infect, but the truth is Apple computers desktops and Macbook’s do in fact get viruses as well. There is a much smaller market share for Apple computers so… Read more →
How to Boot into Safe Mode with Windows 10
What is Safe Mode Safe Mode is a way to access your Windows based computer when normal start up doesn’t occur because of faults in the system, due to bad updates, viruses or bad configuration etc. Starting your computer in Safe Mode will hopefully give you limited access to your operating system to run diagnosis and make changes and repairs… Read more →
Windows 10 Not Assigning Drive Letters to External Drives Automatically
With every Windows 10 update there are a lot of improvements. Not just features, but also little bug which annoy people. But for someone reason this little persistent one keeps sticking around. Usually it just works. You plug your external USB or hard drive into your computer and Windows 10 automatically makes it show up in your computer with a… Read more →
Windows 10 Disk Usage
Windows 10 has been around for a while now and we can assume all this time a lot of the bugs will have sorted out. Although having the Windows 10 operating system on your computer or laptop is proving to have a lot of security benefits, we still seem to be having the constant problems we had a lot of… Read more →
We are open today, Townsville Show Day Holiday 3rd July 2017
Hey everyone. We are open today, Townsville Show Day Holiday 3rd July 2017 as per usual. Read more →
Alternative Web Browsers
Computing has changed over the years. I remember when it use to take a few minutes for an image to load and there was no internet banking or social networking. Now everything is instant, or pretty close to it; we do a lot more on our computers and internet, using multiple services, multiple applications and multiple web browsers all at… Read more →
June 23th Updates, Upgrade and Latest
Debian 9 This is week saw the latest instalment of the much anticipated Linux distribution Debian (9) ‘Stretch’. Debian named after its created Ian and then girlfriend Debbie is one of the oldest and most stable Linux distributions used and loved by millions of people and company who use it for everything from servers to desktop operating systems. Debian developers… Read more →