This tip can be used for Office 2013 also. I don’t know about you, but I started to feel a little queezy when I first used Excel 2013. When scrolling, the grid would fade in and out and look like a complete mess of fuzzy blackness on the screen. I have a lovely pair of […]
An Apple Musing?
We sell lots of cables for phones and tablets We have lots of Lightning and 30-pin Apple cables come back with failures (both Apple branded and Apple licensed) We have little or no micro-USB (Android) cables come back Have fun Gary
Backups: The shortened version
Was the main article a bit big? If the main article was a bit big, just follow these instructions and you should be reasonably safe. If you want to understand the details below and choose some slightly different routes, have a read through Backups: What are they and should you bother? Buy an external hard disk […]
Backups: What are they and should you bother?
Should I Back It Up? A large number of people ask me about backups… unfortunately, some of them could have done with having a suitable routine in place before they asked. A backup is a copy. It’s not an external hard drive or USB stick. It’s not the cloud. It is a duplicate of your data, your files, your precious […]
Not Everything is Silver Lined
So, another one from Google in the recent “we’re better than you” spat between them and Microsoft… Google have chosen to drop support for the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) for their web browser, Chrome. So what… Well, that means that anything running on Microsoft web application environment, Silverlight will not work. In my […]
To NAS or Not To NAS
A NAS (Network Attached Storage) comes in many different guises. From a single drive box that you connect to your router at home to something containing many disks that may be sited in a datacenter somewhere, the principal is the same; storage that you can access from any computer on your network to store and retrieve […]
Finally, CAAOS has a Blog
“…about time too..!” I hear some of you exclaim. This is going to be a little place where we can throw some thoughts, some advisories or any sort of informational outpouring to you, our lovely customers. I am sorry it has taken a while, but now we have it. Please don’t expect daily comments or […]