We arrived today at a bed and breakfast with a difference to setup their new email account. Iden Coach House has a fully functional model railway in the garden complete with tunnels, passing loops and storage sidings; it can even be seen from Google maps! The first Wednesday of every month is their Track Day … more
Posted in Email Configuration on 2nd May 2012
Further to our previous post “Laptops are like Cats”, here is another laptop we’ve just serviced. Only this time it was ours! This is a Dell Inspiron I5 and it is only a year and a half old! The furball it had accumulated from the atmosphere in this time was enough to slow the computer … more
Posted in Servicing on 1st May 2012
Often our clients require urgent maintenance to their computer equipment but don’t have the luxury of being without it during business hours. In cases like this we will gladly take your computers at the end of the day and return them the next morning. Last night we migrated a client’s user account on Windows 7 … more
Posted in Software Maintenance on 2nd March 2012
We usually work onsite but can service your computers (PC or Apple) and solve other software related problems remotely if required. Here we are defragmenting a computer’s hard drive remotely from an iPhone. Your computer will need a working internet connection in order to allow us access via remote support but can be ideal, especially … more
Posted in Servicing on 25th February 2012
Today’s office was a sizeable ship at Rye Harbour modestly called the River Boat. The mate spoke English and unfortunately we would have been unable to replace the broken motherboard in his laptop before the ship left harbour. No fix no fee but we suspected water damage so suggested he left the laptop in a … more
Posted in Hardware Repairs on 22nd February 2012
… sometimes they just need to cough up a furball! This particular laptop had been becoming slower and slower and would often just cut out and turn off. No surprise when we took it to pieces and found this amount of fluff and dust clogging up the fan and heat sink! There’s no need to … more
Posted in Servicing on 21st February 2012
Today we were unable to recover data from a client’s unresponsive hard drive. No fix no fee but remember to backup to avoid this situation in the first place. We stock many different types of external hard drive from just £90 which includes onsite setup of a simple backup solution if required!
Posted in Backup Equipment, Data Recovery on 14th February 2012