Staff Productivity
Securing your Facebook account
September 2, 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 have... Read more
Wikis
July 22, 2011
Wikileaks, the website which publishes leaked documents online alleging government and corporate misconduct, has been in the news a lot lately. You would have to have been hiding in a cave (perhaps in Afghanistan) to have missed the reportage around... Read more
Nerd Tools
June 1, 2011
So you want to be a nerd? Like any other time honoured profession it takes the right mentor coupled with the right tools. You’ll find the right mentor hanging around your local personal computer users club or at the local computer store which is... Read more
Digital Video
May 27, 2011
YouTube is the world’s largest video sharing community. You name it and they have it. Entertainment, music, news and politics, film and animation, sports, how to, style, people and blogs, gaming, most viewed and top favourites are amongst the... Read more
Windows Live Photo Gallery
May 10, 2011
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
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
Get Smart, Get A Smartphone
June 16, 2010
A feature-rich handset can boost work and home life productivity. So you’ve decided to take the plunge, join the masses and by a new smartphone. But while the benefits of these top-end handsets are often discussed, how can you make sure you’ll... Read more
Google Maps for Mobile
June 16, 2010
Everyone has experienced that sinking feeling when you realise you are lost and don’t have a map with you. Asking for directions can be a problem for us males and what do you do if no-one is around? So if you are always on the go – a... Read more
Making the most of email
April 16, 2010
Email is everywhere these days. Just about every person or business you meet has an email address, and it is a great way to communicate, and very inexpensive. Today I’m going to discuss ways you can manage your emails and tips to help reduce... Read more
Using old technology in new ways
February 19, 2010
Email has become a big part of our daily lives for many kiwis, especially us nerdy types. However we still get many enquiries from clients interested in setting up fax machines and numbers. I would like to talk about some new technology around the... Read more
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Fun with Command Prompt
The command prompt may be the most obscure tool available to users of Windows computer systems. Known as DOS or... Read More
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Tweet tweet
You have probably heard the word Twitter thrown around in conversation recently. Twitter is social media phenomenon... Read More
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Broken Windows
Sometimes the only way to solve a problem on your personal computer is to reinstall the Windows operating system... Read More
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