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Now is the time to order that new computer
Some of the big computer manufacturers are having sales at the moment. It happens every year in July and August. Lots of businesses have people off on vacation so they dont buy much new IT equipment and the manufacturers need to sell something to keep going. So they have a sale. You can save anywhere [...]
Living Wellness Clinic
Living Wellness Clinic just opened up in South Surrey and asked TekBusters to help with a website. They are a team of healthcare providers from different healing modalities who are passionate about integrated wellness and helping others. With naturopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, meditation teachers and accupuncturists they offer therapies ranging from customized othotics to hydrotherapy. [...]
New site, Lower Mainland Yacht Co-Op
As a member of the Lower Mainland Yacht Co-Op I got asked to help update the website. So TekBusters volunteered some time and now have the site changed to a Joomla based system and running quite nicely. Click on the picture below to see it.

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Picking the right printer

There are so many options out there for printers right now, it can be hard to decide which one to go for. Laser or inkjet? Just print or include copy and scan? Fax? Colour or black and white; wireless or wired? With all computer equipment you need to look at what your needs are.

Laser or Inkjet

If you only print occasionally and want an easy to use printer, then inkjet is the way to go. It provides excellent quality and is very inexpensive. Laser printers have come down a lot in price (we’ve seen them as low as $60) and are better if you print a lot. If you are looking at over 20 pages a week then you should be considering a laser printer; it works out cheaper per page to print when you do lots of printing. Laser printers tend to be much faster than inkjet at printing as well, with most these days being able to print 15 – 20 black and white pages per minute.

We all know we need a backup but often it gets left behind as there’s so much other work to do. Only someone who has had their computer crash, taking their work with them the day before a thesis is due, or their tax return is to be filed can really understand the value of a good backup.

Traditionally these were done to tape, and stored in fire proof safes or taken away to a separate storage facility. However as hard drives grew in size and the amount of data to be backed up increased with it, tape got harder and harder to use. Tapes needed to be changed daily or even more often, they needed to be stored offsite, and found again when you needed that file that was deleted accidently.

Happy Holidays

Here at TekBusters, Christmas is our favourite time of year. Gerry is looking forward to a white one instead of the traditional Irish wet one and Ursula is planning on enough Christmas lights to light up an airstrip.

We want to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their support throughout this year and to wish everyone all the best for the holidays and a great 2010.

If technology is on your letter to Santa this year, give us a call. We can help with great deals, setup and training. Be able to unpack and set up that new computer at 5am on Christmas morning like a pro.

Windows 7

Is it any good?
Should I upgrade?

We’ve all heard about Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, which was released on October 22nd. Everyone has some questions. Mainly a) “Is it any good?” and b) “Should I upgrade?” The answers look like a) yes, and b) no.

Lots of people have had issues with Windows Vista, in fact it seems to be the least liked operating system since Windows ME. Windows 7 promises to be a whole lot better, but at the moment, here at TekBusters, we’re holding off on the upgrades. Like many other IT companies, we’ve tested Windows 7, and what we’ve seen so far, we’ve liked.

Over time, the hard drive on your computer get’s very messy and files get fragmented. This is like a filing cabinet where nothing is put back in the right order. After a while it takes a long time to find anything, and on your computer this slows everything down.
Luckily sorting through files and reordering them is just the kind of work a computer likes, so there is a program to do this.

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Windows 7

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Is it any good?
Should I upgrade?