Author Archives: Dominic

Internet-Surfing at the Speed of Light in Your Home Office

If you want your home business to become more profitable, it may be time to re-evaluate the current state of connectivity in your home office. If you are an entrepreneur or freelancer, or working out of your home in some online capacity, fast and reliable connectivity is likely one of the most important aspects of your business. This may also depend on where you’ve set up your office. For instance, you might have a garden office with shed, in which case, you might have to make sure that you have a steady internet connection. read more

Oracle Pact with Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce

As the saying goes, it’s hard to tell the players without a scorecard. Microsoft, cloud ERP provider NetSuite, and SaaS (Software as a Service) CRM provider Salesforce are all shaking hands with leading database vendor Oracle. For Salesforce, this follows their trend of being easily integrated within any software, such as Vertify (click here to find out more) and continue to grow at a rapid pace. In Microsoft’s case, it’s a little surprising because their SQL database product is considered a direct competitor of Oracle’s and Netsuite can be considered a competitor of Oracle’s JD Edwards ERP. What’s going on? read more

7 Reasons Why Chinese Smartphones Are No Longer Junk

Good old Chinese smartphones… always cheap and often even more ridiculous than their negligible price tag. Everyone can rely on a Chinese smartphone not to be reliable. Right? Well, if you subscribe to the mindset above, this article will show you your reasoning is out of date and plain wrong.

Most people are familiar with the low cost iPhone knock-offs that have spawned furiously from the East over the past half decade. What everyone does not know is that in the past year or so, they’ve started to get things right. Nowadays, it is very possible to find much satisfaction and outstanding cost effectiveness by choosing the right Asian brand phone. read more

Why is My Computer So Slow?

This is a question I recently got to my email account here at DomsTechBlog.com. This question makes for a great topic for a post. The simple answer is there are many things that can be making a computer run slow. Let’s take a look at the top reasons why your PC could be running slow and ways to remedy each problem.

Not Enough Memory

If your PC has less than 2GB of memory, than this is likely the cause or at least one of the causes of the slowness. Luckily, adding memory to your computer is a pretty simple thing to do. When it comes to buying the memory, I would recommend using the Crucial Memory Scanner since it will help you get the correct RAM for your PC. The RAM from Crucial is solidly made and their prices are reasonable as well. Here is a guide for installation as well. read more

Where Can I Buy Keyboard Keys

You are typing up an important email when the unthinkable happens. One of your keyboard keys snaps right off. Most of us have had it happen to us at one point, whether on a laptop or desktop. This can be a really annoying thing. To go along with the annoyance, you are left wondering where you can buy keyboard keys. In this post, we look at a few great ways to buy replacement keys for your keyboard.

Before you look into buying replacement keys, you may want to ask yourself if it is worth it. If you are using a desktop with an external keyboard, you may just want to buy a brand new keyboard. You can find keyboards on Amazon for under $20 This might save you a ton of hassle. read more