Product Recalls – Worthwhile or Inconvenient?
A little while back, Dyson issued a safety notice regarding its DC05 Motorhead vacuum cleaner. In a nutshell, electrical contacts in the vacuum hose could be exposed as a result of cracking or...
View ArticleWhilst Upgrades Are Convenient Clean Installs Are Better
A quick one for this evening before I fly out to Hong Kong tomorrow morning. For many years, there have been the concept of “upgrade versions” of software (i.e. a mechanism to move up a version usually...
View ArticleAlways Backup Before Upgrading
Just a simple but important concept for tonight. The title pretty much says it all but it is very surprising how many people take the risk of upgrading software of the operating system on their...
View ArticleRosetta Support Disappearing in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
Just a heads up for those Mac OS X users out there that may be using older applications from the PowerPC days (so those G3 and G4 CPUs that powered the Powerbooks and other Apple machines of that...
View ArticleHow to Guide – Installing RAM
I’ve been meaning to get into some “how to guides” this year but found a great opportunity when upgrading the Windows Home Server last weekend. It’s my first one and while I covered everything that I...
View ArticleRegister for Discounted Upgrades to Windows 8
While the tech heads and developers are getting a head start with Windows 8 as part of their MSDN and TechNet subscriptions the rest of the world will need to wait a little longer. However, for people...
View ArticleHow to Install a Video Card
Well, when you are upgrading the video card in your desktop computer you need to know how the process works end-to-end. It does take a bit of time and care even for the seasoned veterans amongst us who...
View ArticleComputing Longevity – Upgrading CPUs and Assessing Alternatives
For a while now I have been tempted to replace my desktop computer with new hardware. I originally built my current desktop back in the middle of 2009 with the following specifications: Intel Core i7...
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