Welcome to Acu IT Solutions blog
Welcome to Acu IT Solutions blog. this blog will hold content we feel would not fit on our main site.
It will also hold computer tips & tricks, and online copies of our newsletter articles.
In our non- Acu IT Solutions section we include some articles from industry sites we feel you may wish to know about.
viewing Hidden files
Tip for – Windows 7 & Vista Users
About- viewing Hidden files in Vista & Windows .
byte size PC Tips?
Our Byte size tips section is exactly as it says on the tin (or page if your pedantic).
nice small random 10 second computer tips.
We dont claim these wont be common known or even “OH WOW i didn’t know you could do that” type tips but they are useful and often forgotten until you need to know howto do then again.
We dont even ask for anything in return for them but if you wish to be nice feel free to give us some facebook love.
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February 2011 Discount Offer
We have decided to actually look at our facebook page. Which means some good news to everyone as we have decided to offer 5% off your next PC service labour for simply either liking or posting a comment on the wall.
YES 5% for a few clicks of the mouse.
Acu IT Solutions facebook – PC Repairs in Glasgow and Business IT Support Scotland
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accidental internet browser tab closure
tip for:- Firefox & Internet Explorer 8 users!
Have you ever clicked to close a tab, only to realize as sooon as you click the mouse button that there was something important on there? What did you do?
Read more…
Strathclyde / metropolitan Police malware scam
lately some clients have received a popup claiming to be from strathclyde/ metropolitan police.
the image below is an example
Free ebooks where?
we often hear these words “I’ve just been given an Amazon Kindle
Hardrive price rise the reasons
As many of you are aware there has been a rise in the price of computer hardrives recently.
Although you may have noticed many of you may not have seen the reason why.
here is the reason Read more…
difference between reballing and reflowing BGA components
Reball or reflow – What is the difference!!
Reball and reflow is often banded about when repairing circuit boards more often that not for Xbox, PS3 or graphic chips on laptops
Isle of Bute – BT Trials
As some of you are aware BT are running white space trials on the Isle of Bute.
Basical white-space trials are using the Television broadcast antennas to allow WIFI acess on frequencies which are not used for channels. As such signals will travel alot greater distance than the current WIFI offerings.
This will be good news for all our clients on the Isle of Bute as may allow for broadband services to be delivered to the more rural areas of the island and hopefully in the future benefit further afield rural communities in the rest of Argyll and the Highlands.
Being the geeks that we are we would love to hear any feedback for any of our clients on the Isle of Bute who are taking part in the trials, as we would love to know your experiences on sort of speeds are connection reliability
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