Microsoft Windows turns 30 today, 30… That sure came around fast. It was released on November 20th 1985. I don’t remember Windows 1.0 all those years ago, I was busy with my Commodore 64 and my friends Amstrad 464. I had yet to encounter the world of PCs. When I did finally get to use […]
Some of us in IT Monkey are Apple lovers and some are not but we were keen to see what this new piece of Apple technology had to offer. Our main use for an iPad Pro is taking it to client meetings to knock up website ideas and take notes. The fact that it also has
Three weeks after its release and all the computers in Monkey Towers are finally running Windows 10. We left nothing untouched, desktops, laptops, notebooks and tablets, if it ran Windows and was eligible for an upgrade, we upgraded it. We even have our 2015 iMac dual booting to Windows 10! All in all, the installations
Windows 10, Outlook 2010, Should You Upgrade Now? Read More »
I’ve been using Windows 10 on one of my work laptops for the last few months and I have to say I am really happy with it. Microsoft might have got a bit carried away with the Windows 8 interface, it looked great and was fine on tablets, but on the desktop, well… it was
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One of our employees Sky+ HD box was running very slowly this week (taking an age to play saved shows, crashing, slow to navigate) and after some searching we found a very simple way to get it working properly again. All it takes is a procedure called a Planner Rebuild. If you follow the following
CAD, regardless of which variety you use, crashes. It’s a simple fact of life. When does it crash? Normally on deadline day when you are trying to make those last minute changes to drawings that haven’t been looked at in a week… So, after screaming and swearing at your computer for a few minutes, what
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The Xbox One road show was in Dublin on Friday night and we managed to get out hands on a couple of invites to test out the new console.
We here at I.T. Monkey like to keep abreast of the latest and greatest innovations in the world of computers and software.
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Spring Cleaning your PC. Well it’s almost Spring and time for the annual clear out. Just like houses, computers can fill up with unwanted applications and rubbish files over time. Now would be a good time to give your PC a good spring clean.
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It’s getting close to Christmas again and for some, that will mean traveling to different parts of the country or world to see loved ones.