GILCOM LTD
Grant Gilbert
6 Hayward Court
Te Puke
NEW ZEALAND
Mob: +64 (22) 5733947
Bus: +64 (7) 5733947
Grant Gilbert
6 Hayward Court
Te Puke
NEW ZEALAND
Mob: +64 (22) 5733947
Bus: +64 (7) 5733947
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Monday, 1 November 2010
Gilcom - IMPORTANT - Portable Hard Drive news
Hi guys,
We have been seeing quite a few portable hard drives coming through our workshop that have failed completely. There is no pattern to the makes or models, I would like to suggest to minimise these failures, be very gentle with these drives while they are plugged in & turned on. They are very fragile. This also applies to HARD DRIVES in your laptops !!!!.
Cheers & have a great week.
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GILCOM LTD
Grant Gilbert
6 Hayward Court
Te Puke
Bay of Plenty
NEW ZEALAND
Bus: +64 (7) 5733947
Mob: +64 (27) 5528089
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GILCOM LTD
Grant Gilbert
6 Hayward Court
Te Puke
Bay of Plenty
NEW ZEALAND
Bus: +64 (7) 5733947
Mob: +64 (27) 5528089
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Gilcom News - Cloud Computing - eprint - Nokia N8
Gidday, Recently Gabi & I went to a seminar in Auckland regarding new computer products & technology. The two main things that stood out for us were firstly HP has a new printer model for around $180.00 which has this feature called (eprint). This allows you to connect this printer to your internet router & print to it from anywhere from any device with an email address like your cellphone or netbook. The way it works is during the setup of the printer, you assign it an email address so say you want to print a photo taken from your cellphone or netbook, simply email the photo to the printer email address & out it comes. You can email basically any document to it & it will print them. Cool As !
The other technology that is getting momentum is ( Cloud Computing ). Cloud computing basically allows you to create documents, spreadsheets & presentations on the web & are also stored on the web. Google has the option called “Google Docs”. If you want to try it out, click on this link http://docs.google.com . You will need to create a Google username & password or if you have a Gmail account, you can use that. If you would like to try the Microsoft flavor, click on this link http://office.live.com again, you will need a Hotmail username & password. If you don’t have one, you can create one.
NOKIA are just about to release a beautiful new device called a NOKIA N8, in Q4 they will be also releasing two other new models called C6-1 which is an updated version of the C6 that Vodafone already do now & a C7 and E7. I have pre-ordered from overseas the N8 so I will let you know how it goes. Oh it’s sexy. It has a 12 mp camera which can record 720p HD video. It can play back Dolby Digital & HD movies into your TV through an HDMI cable plus heaps more cool features. Makes an iPhone look old technology .
The other technology that is getting momentum is ( Cloud Computing ). Cloud computing basically allows you to create documents, spreadsheets & presentations on the web & are also stored on the web. Google has the option called “Google Docs”. If you want to try it out, click on this link http://docs.google.com . You will need to create a Google username & password or if you have a Gmail account, you can use that. If you would like to try the Microsoft flavor, click on this link http://office.live.com again, you will need a Hotmail username & password. If you don’t have one, you can create one.
NOKIA are just about to release a beautiful new device called a NOKIA N8, in Q4 they will be also releasing two other new models called C6-1 which is an updated version of the C6 that Vodafone already do now & a C7 and E7. I have pre-ordered from overseas the N8 so I will let you know how it goes. Oh it’s sexy. It has a 12 mp camera which can record 720p HD video. It can play back Dolby Digital & HD movies into your TV through an HDMI cable plus heaps more cool features. Makes an iPhone look old technology .
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Hi Guys,
It’s another beautiful rainy Sunday & thought it about time I write you another newsletter. Not much good for fishing. In this newsletter, I thought I would share with you some simple tips for recovering overwritten files and the basics of caring for your hard drive especially in laptops.
CARE OF LAPTOP HARD DRIVES
In your laptop is a small metal device called a hard drive & this is what stores all your data such as photos, music, documents & everything else. This device is the MOST IMPORTANT piece in your computer as if the rest ever failed, It can be replaced but normally, the data you collect and store on your hard drive cannot be recollected. It is very important you treat your laptop with extreme care while it is on. When the laptop is on, the hard drive is like a record player (showing my age), Instead of a record it has a small disk spinning at 100 miles an hour and instead of a needle, it has a small read/write head. If you bump, knock or hit your laptop while it’s running, the head can scratch the small disk with your data on it & damage it permanently, in other words, it’s buggered so please be very careful with your laptop’s & desktop hard drives while they are on. When they are turned off, the read/write heads are parked & locked in a safe place.
PREVIOUS VERSION
In Windows 7, there is a cool feature called (Previous Version), What this does is allow you to restore a data file such as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or even an accounting data file back to a previous state in time. Say you were writing a document & saved it a week ago then you opened it today to make changes or add stuff which took ages. You then saved it but not realising you pressed Ctrl A instead of Ctrl S to save & you lost the lot. Don’t panic, From your desktop, go to your My Documents folder (or where ever the file is stored) & find it, Then right click on it & in the menu you will see (Previous Version) Click on it & then you can choose to restore this file to a previous date in time. How cool is that. This restore feature only restores your data files. If you need to do a System Restore, read on....
SYSTEM RESTORE
Windows also has another cool feature called system restore which is used to restore the entire state of Windows back to a previous date in time. This does NOT effect your data files, only Windows. You would use this feature if your Windows had a mental fit as can do from time to time. This will normally NOT fix the effects of viruses unfortunately as this would be an easy fix. To access System Restore, Click on Start / All Programmes / Accessories / System Tools & there you can click on System Restore & follow the wizard.
Notebook update
MSI CX-620
(This replaces the very popular CX-600)
Full keyboard (integrated numeric keypad) and
2-year warranty
MSI CX-620 with Radeon HD4330 1GB dedicated graphics
• Intel® i3 330M 2.13GHz
• 15.6" wide screen, 16:9 ratio (1366x768)
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 640GB HDD
• ATi Mobility Radeon HD5470, DDR3 1GB
• DVD+/- RAM Supermulti Writer
• Wireless 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth
• Gbit LAN
• Multimedia Card Slot 4 in 1
• Express Card Slot
• WebCam 1.3mp
• 2x USB2 + 1x USB2 / eSATA combo Ports
• VGA (D-Sub out) + HDMI
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 6 Cell Li-Ion Battery
• Weight 2.48kg
• 2-year RTB warranty
Gilcom’s Introductory price including a nice carry bag
$1349.00 + GST
MS Office 2007 SBE (with 2010 Pro upgrade offer)
$329.00 + GST
It’s another beautiful rainy Sunday & thought it about time I write you another newsletter. Not much good for fishing. In this newsletter, I thought I would share with you some simple tips for recovering overwritten files and the basics of caring for your hard drive especially in laptops.
CARE OF LAPTOP HARD DRIVES
In your laptop is a small metal device called a hard drive & this is what stores all your data such as photos, music, documents & everything else. This device is the MOST IMPORTANT piece in your computer as if the rest ever failed, It can be replaced but normally, the data you collect and store on your hard drive cannot be recollected. It is very important you treat your laptop with extreme care while it is on. When the laptop is on, the hard drive is like a record player (showing my age), Instead of a record it has a small disk spinning at 100 miles an hour and instead of a needle, it has a small read/write head. If you bump, knock or hit your laptop while it’s running, the head can scratch the small disk with your data on it & damage it permanently, in other words, it’s buggered so please be very careful with your laptop’s & desktop hard drives while they are on. When they are turned off, the read/write heads are parked & locked in a safe place.
PREVIOUS VERSION
In Windows 7, there is a cool feature called (Previous Version), What this does is allow you to restore a data file such as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or even an accounting data file back to a previous state in time. Say you were writing a document & saved it a week ago then you opened it today to make changes or add stuff which took ages. You then saved it but not realising you pressed Ctrl A instead of Ctrl S to save & you lost the lot. Don’t panic, From your desktop, go to your My Documents folder (or where ever the file is stored) & find it, Then right click on it & in the menu you will see (Previous Version) Click on it & then you can choose to restore this file to a previous date in time. How cool is that. This restore feature only restores your data files. If you need to do a System Restore, read on....
SYSTEM RESTORE
Windows also has another cool feature called system restore which is used to restore the entire state of Windows back to a previous date in time. This does NOT effect your data files, only Windows. You would use this feature if your Windows had a mental fit as can do from time to time. This will normally NOT fix the effects of viruses unfortunately as this would be an easy fix. To access System Restore, Click on Start / All Programmes / Accessories / System Tools & there you can click on System Restore & follow the wizard.
Notebook update
MSI CX-620
(This replaces the very popular CX-600)
Full keyboard (integrated numeric keypad) and
2-year warranty
MSI CX-620 with Radeon HD4330 1GB dedicated graphics
• Intel® i3 330M 2.13GHz
• 15.6" wide screen, 16:9 ratio (1366x768)
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 640GB HDD
• ATi Mobility Radeon HD5470, DDR3 1GB
• DVD+/- RAM Supermulti Writer
• Wireless 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth
• Gbit LAN
• Multimedia Card Slot 4 in 1
• Express Card Slot
• WebCam 1.3mp
• 2x USB2 + 1x USB2 / eSATA combo Ports
• VGA (D-Sub out) + HDMI
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 6 Cell Li-Ion Battery
• Weight 2.48kg
• 2-year RTB warranty
Gilcom’s Introductory price including a nice carry bag
$1349.00 + GST
MS Office 2007 SBE (with 2010 Pro upgrade offer)
$329.00 + GST
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Google Nexus One Smartphone
Hi Guys, Probably like the most of you that will read this, you have been searching long & hard for the perfect Smartphone, well I think we might be close. I started on the Palm then to Nokia N Series & like allot of people I have moved to Google Android and am so impressed. I recently bought a Google Nexus One and just love it. The quality of video & photos are great “for a phone”. We have to remember the optics & processing will never be as good as a normal camera but for YouTube & basic photos, it’s great. The UI is just beautiful, the capacitive touch is OK but does need some work, It’s not perfect but OK. I also have the odd problem with the accuracy when tapping the keys on the keyboard compared to the Magic (My Touch) overall I am wrapped with the device. I will make a demo video with the Nexus One & tweet it. I would like to see some basic video editing in the device such as the Iphone & Nokia N Series devices but as I said, we are close to the perfect device.
There is two programmes that don't work correctly here in New Zealand, the first being Google Maps Navigation which is a real bummer as this would be so cool but I suspect we have to be patient which as everyone who know's me, that word is not in my vocab :-). Secondly is Amazon Music downloads. This sucks too as itunes works fine here.
Overall the phone is awesome & after having about 10 - 15 smartphones over the recent years, this is getting close to being a wicked phone..
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