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October
’17 Newsletter Goodbye
summer, hello 6 months of cold and darkness. I hope you are fit and well. Here’s
a roundup of the latest news from the world of IT. Support for Iphones and
Ipads.
Apple
have just release their IOS 11 operating system, which is available to all
customers who use a recent IPhone or Ipad. One
of the advantages of having this update is that now, for the first time, it is
now possible to use TeamViewer on an Apple mobile device. This
means that I can now offer Remote Technical Support for IPhones and IPads. How
fantastic is that?? Each
additional PC:
£25.00 Support
for Apple Mobile devices only (Not computers)
£50.00 Amazon Fire
How you fancy getting a brand new mini Ipad for less than £50?? Well there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that you can’t. But the good news is that you can now get an Amazon Fire tablet at £49.99, which is almost as good. I just bought one as my old Kindle e-reader suddenly died after many years of faithful service. So I needed a new Kindle, and decided to get the Fire. It’s just fantastic and amazing value for money. If you only used it as a book reader, that would be good enough. But it does almost as much as an Apple Ipad, which start from about £400. You can get your emails, Internet, pictures, music, TV & movies, and thousands of Apps. It has a long battery life and an expandable memory by using micro memory cards. I’m sooo impressed. Admittedly,
the built in camera is not as good as the Apple Ipad, and it’s not quite as
fast, but at less than 50 quid, you really can’t go wrong. Highly recommended.
If
you need any help or advice about this please call or email me. New Iphone 8
Apple has just released the Iphone 8 and 8Plus. By all accounts, as you would expect, it’s just a superb piece of technology, which just gets better and better. You can see that it has edge to edge screen, so there is no longer a Home button at the bottom. It’s slimmer than previous versions and has a better longer battery life. However, their all singing and dancing Iphone 8X will be available here from early November. If
you can afford to wait and are prepared to pay top money for it, then that’s
the one to have. It’s without doubt, the best smartphone on the market, with
many new features such as wireless charging and facial recognition so you no
longer need to enter passwords. But with a price tag starting at £1,000 and
going up to £1,150 for the 256Gb version, it’s not going to be affordable to
everyone. I
haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but I’ll be able to give a full
review in my next newsletter in November. Tune up and Spring Clean
Is
your computer running too slowly or is it just not performing as well as it used
to? The answer is probably YES. This
could be a variety of reasons, but most likely, it’s full of clutter and lots
of stuff that needs to be cleaned up, to restore it to its former glory. Over
the months and years, your PC will bring in so many things, such as temp and
temporary internet files, cookies, Windows updates, System restore points etc.
which over a period of time will slow the whole thing down and use up a lot of
valuable disk space. For
a fixed fee of £60, I would come to you and give it a full 12,000 mile service
and tune up, and get rid of all the clutter and things that could be slowing it
down. Of
course it could be that your trusty old beast is reaching the end of its useful
life, so maybe it’s time to think about getting a new system, in which case,
we could talk about your options. I
would also check your computer’s security and that your backups are being done
properly. To
fix a date, just call or email me. And finally….
Where’s
the Badger???? Simple
question, where’s the badger in this picture? When you get fed up with
searching, scroll down and I’ll put you out of your misery.
That’s
it for this month, and remember I’m always here if you need me.
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