Posts by Bill Brown

Backup your computer

May 1, 2011

How much of a disaster would it be if those digital photographs of your daughter’s wedding were suddenly destroyed? How vicious would your wife get if you could no longer view that video of her mother’s 60th birthday? What would happen if that... Read more

Securing your Facebook account

April 29, 2011

More than 500 million people have signed up to social networking website Facebook. While the less discerning seem to have made it their goal to invite just about every other member to become their Facebook friend, the most paranoid of users... Read more

Speech Recognition

April 27, 2011

We all laughed in 1986 when Star Trek’s Scotty, who had travelled back in time to San Francisco, tried talking to an Apple Mac computer using its mouse. The concept of computers that can converse with human beings is as old as science fiction... Read more

The Rise of Phone Scams

December 6, 2010

Phone scams are on the rise. A number of Nerd customers and the Nerds themselves have received calls over the last couple of months from people saying they are from either “Microsoft” or “Windows” or some other bogus company name. The... Read more

Buying a new TV

November 1, 2010

There is a lot of choice these days in the consumer market for a new television. If you are looking at purchasing a new TV you have more factors than ever before to consider and it’s important to buy the right model to suit your needs. In the... Read more

Windows Live Photo Gallery

August 10, 2010

The hard disk drives of the world’s personal computers are heaving with thousands of digital photographs. As the price of digital storage plummets photographers are becoming less discerning about the deletion of images that don’t quite make the... Read more

Microsoft Gadgets

August 9, 2010

Unless you know a nerd, or are extremely inquisitive, chances are you’ve missed some of your personal computer’s best features. While it was once fashionable to bash Microsoft for the overzealous security system in Windows Vista, designed to... Read more

Backup Your Computer

August 6, 2010

How much of a disaster would it be if those digital photographs of your daughter’s wedding were suddenly destroyed? How unhappy would your wife be if you could no longer view that video of her mother’s 60thth birthday? What would happen if that... Read more

How to build your own PC - Part 8 - The Finale

July 24, 2010

Technology editor Chris Gardner, with the help of Need A Nerd, demystifies the personal computer by building a media centre from scratch. This week they look at using Windows 7 to listen to music, watch DVDs and live TV. The ability to play music... Read more

How to build your own PC - Part 7

July 17, 2010

Technology editor Chris Gardner, with the help of Need A Nerd, demystifies the personal computer by building a media centre from scratch. This week they look at switching on and installing an operating system and device drivers. My worst fears had... Read more

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  • Nerd Online Backup

    We’ve had more than our fair share of disasters in New Zealand this year and disasters, both natural and... Read More

  • Smartphone - Bad Apps

    According to an analysis from some phishing sites, secure web services provider Trusteer found that people using... Read More

  • Mobile data

    A smartphone is a fantastic tool for the savvy owner, with a host of useful applications and features. There is however... Read More