Author: Rob


  • Gone Movin’

    I’m going to be taking a short break from your weekly tech update, just while I relocate and get my new home office up and running. Stay safe, keep back-ups and be awesome

  • Everyone wants a bit more performance from their system, and there are a number of zero cost things you can do to make sure that your system is running to the best of its capabilities, most of these a beginning user can do and shouldn’t be to taxing in terms of the time they will…

  • At the heart of your PC sits the hard drive, known as a HDD to my fellow technical folks, its this device that hold copies of your programs and data.  It used to be that the only drives available were mechanical hard drives, these where weighty and slow because they consisted of literal disks that…

  • Be it a laptop, desktop or Mac all computers have certain things in common, things that they all need in order to achieve tasks. The basic components of a computer are universal and have been since the earliest personal computers came on to the market back in the early 70s (the Kenbak-1, but that’s a…

  • Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to completely move away from physical cash; not just going over to plastic. A payment method where your transaction never even gets close to a tangible asset of wealth such as cash or gold. A truly worldwide currency designed from the ground up to be completely…

  • As a PC tech, I can assure you that the best type of maintenance is preventative maintenance. One question I get asked a lot is are there any easy things that can keep a computer healthy? and as it happens, there are things that you can do to keep your computer up and running. The…

  • Random Access Memory, also known as RAM or just ‘memory’, is one of the fundamental components of a Personal Computer. Its job is to act as a worktable of sorts for the Central Processing Unit (CPU), which in turn is the computer’s brain. RAM is temporary storage, like how programs are stored on a drive…

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