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Migrating to NBN

David Williams - DEW IT Computer Service and Repair Gosford September 3, 2019Broadband, Internet, NBN 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-05-21 17:00:20. In Kariong we were originally scheduled to be connected to the NBN in November 2013. That was around the time the Liberal Government under Tony Abbot came to power and I think the NBN had been slow walking everything anyway expecting the change of government. Rudd budgeted $48 BILLION AUD (if memory serves) and I think at this point, the cost to date has been more than $90 billion and for the most part for an inferior FTTN type connection. It’s easy to blame Abbott & Turnbull for this debacle but in my opinion it goes

How to setup Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast September 3, 2019Google Home, Home Assistant, Home Automation 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-02-12 11:06:20. What can you do with Home Automation and Why should I be interested? I’m assuming upfront that if you have found this article by searching then you are probably interested in home automation of at least have an open mind and would like to know how to setup Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi. I’ll say that my wife is not a fan at all of Home Automation and probably regrets the day that she was given a Google Home device as a work gift to all employees as it opened up a world of possibilities

Links in emails

David Williams - DEW IT Computer Service and Repair Gosford September 3, 2019Malware, Phishing, Virus 0 Comment

Originally posted 2017-05-24 07:59:31. Don’t open emails from dodgy sources! Always check that a link in an email is going where you expect it to be going. If you hover your mouse over the link it will show you where it is going. So called phishing scams are even more prevalent than computer viruses these days. A good computer anti-virus software (I use NOD32 from Eset) will protect you from this kind of stuff in your emails. See our colleagues Web Design Company Fresno – Web Design and Internet Marketing service provider in Fresno. Chavezwebdesign.com offer website design and graphic

Why is it important to do a Website SEO Audits & what do you look for?

David Williams - DEW IT Web Design Kariong September 3, 2019SEO Audit, Web Design Central Coast, Website 0 Comment

SEO - search engine optimisation Central Coast

Originally posted 2018-12-18 15:54:46. A website SEO audit involves analysing the on page SEO factors affecting the ranking of a website. On-page SEO is very important as it affects where your website ranks in the search engines like Google. While it is impossible to make any hard promises about where a site will rank as that is solely in the control of companies like Google, it is possible for us to optimize the on page SEO factors on a page/site to increase the probability of it ranking well. It is important to understand there are no 100% guarantees anyone

Home Assistant Updates May 2018 and Sonoff-Tasmota update

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast September 3, 2019Home Assistant, Home Automation, MQTT, Sonoff Tasmota 0 Comment

Originally posted 2018-05-21 12:56:29. May 2018 will see the release of the latest version of Home Assistant. Home Assistant has been in ‘beta’ for as long as it has been generally available and it seems it is soon to be going to be released as a real ‘product’ if chat on the support chat forum on discord is to be believed. Home Assistant recently changed the way releases are handled so as to release more stable .0 releases than has sometimes been the case and the accompanying up to 6 ‘dot’ releases to fix errors introduced in the new release.