One of the most overlooked components during a PC upgrade is the power supply. It’s not something that’s obvious like replacing the CPU or RAM to improve performance, or improving a graphics card for better gaming. Hard drives can be added or replaced with bigger ones, or replaced with solid state drives for quicker reading […]
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Now the roof can be fixed!
It was my great pleasure to support Daniel of Vision ICT’s Charity Auction to fix a leaky school roof in Mumbai, India. “It was very humbling to see the wonderful work taking place in Mumbai thanks to organisations like SlumAid and I was glad to be a part of it. Having come home and […]
Data Destruction
One of the services offered by Solidarity IT is destruction of data to military standard. This is a impressive sounding term, perhaps bringing to mind the image of someone strapping a bomb to an old computer. What it actually involves however, is much less dramatic, but certainly more practical, and actually leaves the hard drives […]
Wed 24th Jan 2018 Tapas
A tasty tapas, good company, interesting tales and building business links. That’s what happened at the Olive tapas in Newton Abbot this Wednesday lunchtime. I was asked by Chris of Devon Matters to assist with the organisation of the latest meetup of the A38 Business Club networking group. 15 of us were able to make […]
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BBX Christmas gathering
It was great to attend the BBX Christmas gathering and hear the great work Vision ICT’s Daniel Hiller did in India during his recent volunteering there. I got to chat with my accountant and also to speak with a social media marketing expert who will help me up my game in the new year. Great […]
Explain-IT: First session
First Explain-IT training session today. I worked with the client on using Windows to manage files and to use Dropbox to send collections of files too large to email. He’d come from an iPad background and was used to each application having its own file store rather than Windows defaulting to the Documents folder, thus […]
Business Networking Breakfast
Hard-drive wipe finished successfully last night so that’s all done – they took about 16 hrs each for 0.75TB. Business networking breakfast near Haytor on Dartmoor in the morning, then an interesting webinar this evening to improve the quality of my Facebook marketing presence.
Hard Drives Erased to Military Standard
Cooked a Sunday roast whilst waiting for the first of the replaced hard drives to erase to military standard. That data ain’t ever coming back – thanks to KillDisk Pro. But they can still be used as storage. The HD is about 40% done with the process, so I’ll check it in the morning and […]
Office Set-up in Exmouth
In total contrast to yesterday’s delivery and leisurely seaside walk in Paignton, when I visited Exmouth today, I didn’t catch even a glimpse of the sea. I’d been called in at short notice to assist with an office setup because their normal tech had needed to cancel due to illness. As I’d been refurbishing their […]