Sony was king of the music tapes (backup tapes) in the 80’s. Just as in the music industry, backup tapes were slowly being faded out for more robust and bigger storage solutions such as hard drives and Digital Discs. That might all change if Sony’s new backup tapes go into production Last month at the […]
That ever blue sky, those endless green hills, you could almost say it was a holiday. If it were a holiday, it would be over as Windows XP has reached its End of Support life with Microsoft. So after 12 years of supporting and updating Windows XP, Microsoft has cut off its life support today […]
This week Intel has unveiled a new technology in data transferring called MCX. MCX (which strangely is not an acronym for anything) has a total transfer rate of 1.6 Tbps! Developed by Intel and produced in collaboration with US Conec, these data cables are already in the real world evaluation stage as of last week. […]
This week we got to have a play around with Intel’s (relatively) new and not well known wireless technology; WiDi. WiDi stands for Wireless Display and it’s a technology solely developed by microchip giants Intel. So this means if you stick to teamred with your CPU’s, AMD will not have this technology available to you… […]
A few weeks back one of our technician’s blogged about re-licensing Microsoft Office 365 by basically logging out as the user, logging in as the admin of the domain and then logging back in as the user. This week we found out that this solution isn’t always the solution. After trying this above fix along […]
At the start of the year we blogged about our cloud based and managed AV Bitdefender and it has just recently been awarded best AV for 2014. Over at the popular IT news website tomsguide.com they recently had a shootout to test some of the most popular anti-virus solutions and to come out with a […]
Having an accustomed environment encircle you can exude reassuring emotions of safety and keep you in a state of tranquillity and composure… unlike this sentence. That is why safe mode can be such a great tool to use and see from an IT perspective. In the past week I’ve had to resort to using safe […]
Click on a link that you want to open and you find yourself on the bad side of the internet staring at pop ups, free prescription medicine and critical security warnings?… Looks like you have a browser hijack. Usually I get to work on a Friday ready to have a good finish to the working […]
The big news this week is that DisplayPort has officially ousted the aging but very handy VGA display interface. Up until this week all the PC’s, workstations and servers we had sold or configured for our customers came with a VGA display port among other display options… but not anymore. We had shipped our first […]
One of the first laptops that I ever used was small, blocky in design, had a rubber pointer, had small TFT screen and would get hot enough to quite literally warm up my room in winter. We have come far in mobile computing. I have noticed a trend over the past 2-3 years. Many of […]
