These days most computers don't come with CD / DVD / Blue Ray drives. Everything is delivered via the internet and sometimes USB thumb...

There's a lot of talk about how to create passwords and how secure they need to be and how they need to be unique and multi-factor...

The COVIDsafe app and its lack off effectiveness seem to have been forgotten. But that's the funny thing about the data it has collected,...

Recently one of my customers came to me with a very strange problem... His Sent Items folder in his email just kept growing and growing....

The other day a friend posted an interesting article. Researchers at CERN break “The Speed of Light”. I am no Sheldon Cooper but I was...

With Windows 10, as far as most of us consumers are concerned, automatic updates happen...sooner or later...whether we like it or not....

We've all had them, intermittent problems with something. They are beyond annoying because they always, ALWAYS fail to show themselves...

If 2020 isn't enough evidence that humanity is collectively getting dumber, then maybe you should subscribe to the IT newsletters I get...

Over my nearly 40 years of computing experience I have seen some really dumb ideas come and go...and come again...and go again. Why some...

This is a tough one to write about because it still makes my head hurt. Sometimes I get called to help people who know everything. It is...

In the early days of computers they didn't know their time or their location. Without getting too technical, they did have a clock and...

Not long after I arrived in Tasmania I was doing repeat jobs for a business near Margate. They were a reasonable size business with more...

Most people are worried about all the SPAM they receive, but every now and then I get asked about sending SPAM. It's not what you think....

In my line of work, every now and then something mindbogglingly weird and unpleasant happens to me. I assume these things happen to all...

It happens. But how prepared for it were you? Did you think through the ramifications? Did you do it when you owed them money? Were you...

In a previous and evolving blog post, https://www.ihatemypc.com.au/post/2016/05/31/the-ever-changing-it-value-proposition, I outline...

For the average person, who just wants to be safe on the internet, it can be very tricky to know what software you need to protect you...

There's a lot of frustration caused by the rapid change and obsolescence of our technology. It is hard enough keeping up with new things...

It is easy to poke fun at the government for how they "do" technology. I know, I am regularly forced (forced damn it) to lampoon the...

The answer is almost certainly yes. Many of us with a smart phone and social media have experienced having a "random" conversation with...