Mar 28, 2012

Are you Confused by the Cloud ? Let us clear the fog for you and steer you to clear skies – I know thats corny but I couldn’t resist. Cloud computing is all the buzz at the moment but what does it all mean? Cloud computing has been around for years. I remember first working with cloud consultants in the late 90′s but although they had the...

Mar 20, 2012

What’s this funny looking symbol? Thats the question that has prompted me to write a quick article. Everybody keeps asking us what is this strange looking symbol we are seeing in shops, on TV, billboards and cars? This funny looking symbol is actually a barcode and more specifically its an Aztec barcode (QR standard). The Aztec barcode has actually been...

Feb 12, 2012

We recently renewed our contract for the business mobile phones. The majority of our business mobiles are Apple iPhones. With the popularity of the iPhone, we equip the staff so that they can provide assistance to our customers. In this particular order we also purchased the Samsung Galaxy SII for my wife as she has never been a fan of the iPhone. Out of the...

Dec 10, 2011

The Concept – Home Made Arcade Machine. Those who know me know I’m am a giant fan of old skool computing. Although I love the speed and capabilities of the latest technology, nothing beats the playability of the games from the 80′s. I still reminisce the days when you’d have 20 cents in your pocket and see the arcade machine at the petrol...

Dec 2, 2011

In this demonstration we took a Toshiba Centrino Notebook (2 years old) and fitted it with a brand new conventional Hard Disk. We performed a fresh installation of Windows, we then duplicated that Hard Disk to a Solid State Hard Disk. The video speaks for...

Sep 2, 2011

If you are looking for some fun with your Computer and have an amateur interest in Electronics then the Arduino is the ultimate companion. The Arduino is cheap, easy to use, easy to program and the possibilities are endless. This is my first Arduino POV project. POV – Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to...