Using Outlook Express – Adding or Updating Your Email Signature

Using Outlook Express you can create an email signature that sets you apart from your business competition or keeps your personal contacts up to date with minimal effort. Your signature is a way to communicate your business contact details with personality and professionalism.
Email signatures enhance business, social and personal networking. Knowing how to contact [...]

Outlook Express Email Tip – Exporting email addresses

Part of the Microsoft Outlook Express Email software is the address function which helps you organise your contacts’ details such as names, addresses and phone numbers.
If you wish to make a backup copy, or use these contacts in a different program such as Microsoft Excel, or import into a Social Media site such as LinkedIn [...]

AVG Free 9.0 – How to Upgrade to the latest version of Free Anti-Virus Software AVG

AVG Free, the free version of the popular AVG Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware, has recently released an upgrade to their software. If you are using AVG Free you have probably seen a pop up notification window that the deadline for the upgrade is 1st December 2009.
Below is a step by step guide on how to update [...]

What is RSS? A Quick Tip to Keep Up with Information which is important to you

RSS (which has a few variations in meaning but commonly accepted as “Really Simple Syndication”) is a way of bringing information from various different frequently updated websites such as blogs, news headlines, audio and video into a standard format which can be read in a “News Reader” (also known as RSS Reader, News Aggregator or [...]

Using Your Computer Webcam for taking photos

Did you know you can use your computer’s webcam for taking a quick snapshot? This can come in handy if you need to take a quick photo of something you can get within range of a built in webcam (usually at the top of the laptop screen) or a webcam plugged in externally.
While the pic [...]

Windows XP or Windows Vista – which do you have?

This is a very simple way of identifying whether you are running a version of Windows XP or Windows Vista.
Restart or shutdown and turn on your computer in the usual manner, taking careful notice as it starts up. If you have a fairly standard version, there will be a boot screen looking similar to one [...]

Crossloop – a free tool to share your computer via the internet

Crossloop is one of the remote support systems Cairns Computer Help uses to allow the sharing of computers via the internet. If you have stumbled across this page and have no idea what that means here is an introductory article on remote support which should help out. Or scroll down a bit and play the [...]

Broadband in Cairns – a starter guide

Broadband is the most common way of connecting to the internet for emails, voice over internet, daily tasks like banking and paying bills. If you are currently accessing the internet using dial-up then you may be wasting time and money using a slow connection for around the same price per month as an always on [...]

Remote Support for Computers

Remote support or remote access for computers is a way of giving access to control a home or small business computer via the internet. With the help of modern remote support tools, it is simple to set up and use, and very secure. Remotely accessing computers can save time and money, and simplify your technology. [...]