GiaKonda Ltd

Downloads Page

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:22:11 +0000

Check out our new Downloads page. Here our Microsoft Office Master Instructor, Howard Kirkman, will regularly be adding Youtube videos on training and technical issues. The first ones are about Microsoft Office. Check them out and please feel free to … Continue reading →

There’s more to business than making money

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:10:37 +0000

Here at Giakonda IT, we pride ourselves on the relationships we build with our customers. We provide good quality goods and services at a reasonable cost and are always ready and willing to go the extra mile to help.

We believe that in the end it is this which makes a business successful, not making an extra bit of profit.

Today started off very well. A satisfied customer brought in a home-cooked Thai green curry to say thanks. It was very much appreciated.

ZX81 rediscovered

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:55:36 +0000

What an interesting week! On Tuesday we visited the annual Students Project Fair at Swansea University. It was great to see the innovative ideas some of these guys were working on. Schemes to improve emergency response times, systems for avoiding train accidents, turning a smartphone into a simple projector. I was particularly impressed with the enthusiasm for using Lego Mindstorms to teach computing in schools.

Howard has started delivering ECDL courses with a module about IT Fundamentals. He went off this morning armed with mainboards, graphic cards, hard drives and the like for those who’d never got up close and personal with the insides of a PC.

Guess what we found last weekend while clearing out a storage unit? A ZX81 . Have any readers out there still got one?

Raspberry Pi for some

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:38:19 +0000

Where’s our Raspberry Pi? We’ve been waiting a couple of month’s now and How is itching to get at it. Rory Cellan Jones has got his now and we’re so jealous. Oh well, a bit longer to gen up on … Continue reading →

Latest from Microsoft

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:43:15 +0000

50% public procurement is now going to SMEs. Microsoft is scared of open standards and are asking their partners and resellers to write to the government. They are especially worried about open document format.

Microsoft Intune now supports Apple and Android. Allegedly…

They’re pushing Cloud solutions hard. To be efficient Cloud needs the scripting language Powershell to add functionality to the operating system (a bit like batch files).

Just watched Windows 8 demo on a MAC airbook! How weird is that?

Windows phone on Nokia – impressive demo of speaking English and translating to voice in French. Another reason not to learn a language.

Microsoft Partner Briefing

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:38:57 +0000

Off to conference today. Microsoft has to make up its mind whether it’s a consumer operating system or a business operating system.
Full English under the belt and here I go!

Who can get the best price?

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:26:04 +0000

Now I don’t like to boast but we always offer good quality products at very competitive prices. That’s how I spotted a scammer the other day.

The guy came in for a 3.5″ hard drive and when shown two different brands, (Western Digital and Samsung), both for £55, maintained he could get them cheaper on the internet. Well I’m not sure where he was looking – Amazon can’t do better for 5400rpm, let alone 7200rpm which ours are.

He wasn’t interested in details of the speed although he was allegedly building his own machine!
Unfortunately he was probably “casing the joint”.

Call us if you want prices on any computers, accessories or components. 01792 422616
We’ve still got hundreds of products to add to our online shop (when Wendy’s got time!)
Check it out on http://www.giakonda.co.uk

Whatever next?

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:13:23 +0000

We get the strangest requests for IT help here in Swansea.
Just yesterday, a customer came in in a desperate state. He was about to set off for Leicester and, while fiddling with his NAVMAN, had accidentally set the language to Dutch! He couldn’t face a few hours of gobbledegook instructions so asked us at Giakonda IT for help.

Isn’t the internet great? Within minutes I’d translated the onscreen Dutch, found the Settings and reset the language (Taal in Dutch by the way).

Another happy client!

Kingston Silicon Drives

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:02:39 +0000

I spent an interesting day with Kingston Technologies looking at SSDNow drives. They are technically excellent but it is very important to seek advice on their use before just plugging them in. Very much a “horses for courses” product. My … Continue reading →

Wasp Barcode Products

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:47:28 +0000

After a very successful demonstration of Wasp products, I am pleased to say we are now a partner of theirs and looking to introduce their scanning,stock inventory and asset management solutions into schools, the health service and local businesses.