Archive for the 'General Tech' Category

Disabling Startup Items

As a full time techie you tend to come across a lot of bad software in your travels. Most of the time I have to remove for people .
But in saying that every now and then you come across a few gems. One i will mention today is a little program called Startup Control [...]

Moving email to a Mac

Wow what a problem I had today. One of my clients has decided to migrate to Apple Mac’s. So he gets me out to move his historical email from a Windows laptop and desktop to Entourage. Sounds simple enough right??? Right???
Wrong and I must say I was surprised. I tried a few methods.
Saving individual mails [...]

Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

The Windows Blue Screen of Death or BSOD as we techies call it can be the bane of our existance.  I have spent long and frustrating hours trying to troubleshoot these messages. Initally i was like many who just shrugged their shoulders and put it down to faulty hardware or Windows biting the bullet. While [...]

USB NAS Adapter

I stumbled upon this while looking for a network storage solution for myself. Kinda silly since I already have a 1TB USB drive but i like the ease and convenience of sharing whats on it across my network. Yes i could always share the drive but that involves keeping my PC on all the time [...]

My Poor Laptop

This type of thing doesnt happen often but hey what ya gonna do. My Medion laptop decided it didnt want to boot. While this usually isnt a problem, because its under warranty I cant really troubleshoot the hardware myself. All I can do is box it up and ship it to the company for diagnosis.
Medion [...]

iPhone madness

Well tomorrow (Friday) here in Australia the iPhone will be released. Exciting say some meh say others. Im not gonna go on about it but needless to say i think its pretty cool. Personally I was going to get one but since my Phone Co, Optus want to charge me $600 to get out of [...]

General Microsoft Weirdness

For the last couple of days I have struggled with an odd issue. A clients laptop an oldish Dell has been having the good old Blue Screen of Death and of course its random.  Luckily its the same error every time…cool i think easy one to troubleshoot…well yes and no. While i know what the [...]