Trends, Tips and Thoughts

Cartoon-style image of Michael from Buzztime Electronics showing a middle-aged male customer a laptop screen with warning signs such as pop-ups, slow performance, unknown alerts, and unexpected behaviour.

How to tell if your computer has a virus

A virus doesn’t usually announce itself. It just quietly makes things worse – your computer gets sluggish, something pops up that shouldn’t, or a program starts behaving strangely. By the time most people suspect something’s wrong, the infection has been

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Open desktop PC on a blue repair mat at a compact electronics workbench, with a black monitor, multimeter, screwdrivers, loose screws, and tools visible in a small repair-shop setting.

PC won’t turn on

The steps below focus on the first two – where the PC itself isn’t coming to life. If you’re getting power and fans but the screen is blank, the issue is more likely the monitor, the display cable, or a

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TPG email providers are sinking ships

The great TPG email meltdown

As we brace ourselves in the lifeboat and look around, there are four distinct choices on how to move ahead once you paddle away from the sinking ship that is TPG’s email provisioning umbrella.

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