May 02 2014
About 18 months ago I was approached by a client (as I often am I guess) and she posed a question that made me wonder if Canberra was getting the best Apple support possible. She rang me in a panic because she had 3000 photos on her iPad (and nowhere else) and she had …
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Mar 11 2014
If the Internet was reliable and some large ISPs took more responsibility for the service they provide I would be out of a job. The number one issue I deal with is email and web browsing and 90% of the time it’s the ISP that needs to fix something at their end. Unfortunately when clients …
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Feb 26 2014
It’s usual a vital email. You are usually in a hurry. You need to deal with the contents of this important email right now. But it’s blank. The only content is an attachment entitled Winmail.dat. So what is it and why is it happening? And more importantly, what can you do about it? Firstly, and …
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Dec 07 2013
There was a time when youtube was a small, little known, video website that mainly concerned itself with pirated TV shows and embarrassing holiday videos. Then google bought it for an obscene amount of money and the rest is history. The word “youtube” is, like “google”, an adjective rather than a brand name. So it …
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Dec 07 2013
It is sad to think that there would be no need for Anti Virus, Anti Spam or Anti Malware services if the world wasn’t overflowing with the kind of filth that writes malicious applications. A world free of these creeps is, I fear, a Disney fantasy. In response to this threat most of us install …
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