No Technobabble

In this episode, I talk about the most popular question I am asked as an IT guy. “What laptop should I buy?” There are so many different brands and specs to choose from, it can be a minefield to know what to choose. How to not spend too much money but at the same time not get something that goes slow after a few months. This time I show you the simple checklist of things you need to know and how to buy the right laptop for 60% less than the retail price.

This is a fast walk-through of how Drive Priority will save you time every working day.I list my top five ways that Drive Priority saves time including how it's like having your own assistant in the office.Drive Priority is one of the many modern ways of working that G Suite provides. Its all about saving you time so that you can spend it doing what you love the most.PS: I share at the end of the podcast what I do with the time I save using Drive

In this episode I get into what all these cyber attacks are about. What is Ransomware? Why does it happen to businesses?I'll talk about traditional and modern IT, the difference and why the real problem isn't a technical one.At the end of this episode you will know the main reasons a business can get hit and how you can protect yourself against it happening to you.

The recent case with Martin Lewis and Facebook ads that purport to be from someone famous and are in fact scams.This is another example of where our history of believing what is in the media is causing people to be tricked. The digital age has made trust and reputation more important than ever.Life is full of greedy people on one hand and on the other are people looking for an easy answer or a shortcut. Now because someone wants an easy option doesn't make it right to take their money and rip them off.

Life is full of forms. Registrations of birth, death, marriage, insurance, medical and legal. This episode explores the history of forms in business, why useless forms lose you customers and how apps like Google Forms can help make your business twice as efficient.

Most people do not know what the cloud is. Why is it called a cloud? When you don’t know what something is you fear it and that means you won’t try it out.

In this episode, I open the box on the Dark Web. What is this elusive thing, where can I find it and do I want to go there? I’ll share my thoughts on Dark Web scans, what information about you that's definitely on the dark web, and how you can protect yourself from all these cybercriminal types. At the end of this podcast, you will know what to do, what not to do and why so many people want to scare you into spending money on stuff you don’t need to do.

In the second part of this podcast I talk about some of the misconceptions around 4G and Satellite broadband. These technologies have improved dramatically since they first made an appearance and it's too easy in tech to believe the old wives tales. You will learn about the lastest Ultra Fast broadband that has crazy speeds of 300MB download and why focusing on price alone is a bad idea. The secret to business is having a brilliant team around you. I talk about ensuring you have a broadband provider you can talk to and ask questions of. Then finally I share the future of broadband in 5G, what is this? What does it mean for how we do business? All this crammed into 30 minutes. Yipes

It seems there are almost a hundred different ways to connect to the Internet, ADSL, FTTC, G.FAST, Fibre, 4G. But what does all of this mean? What is the best way to keep my business online today? In this podcast I start a deep dive into this business critical matter. If your business is offline then it may as well not exist. The Internet is that important today. In this podcast I explain why you get what you pay for and how a water pipe can help you understand what Internet speeds really mean.

IT in business is always reactive, something goes wrong and it gets fixed. Even with all the monitoring that companies offer, you are still waiting for a problem to happen before you deal with it. What if there was another way? What if you could skip over their being a problem with the IT completely? In this week's episode I talk about how this can be a reality, why the ‘Cloud’ is the solution and that no matter how many ‘tickets’ IT companies love to boast they have solved, their approach is fundamentally flawed.

Because most times the owner of the business has the wrong device, they have something that is not doing what they need for them. It probably looks good, it certainly is expensive and it appeals to our desire to impress others.

Cost is always a question when working in IT. Because everytime a change is needed, the cost seems to be really high. You have been advised to buy the best kit to ‘future proof’ your investment. This was sage advice in 2003 but today it is simply not needed and in fact it is used by unscrupulous sales people who prey on your trust in their business.

What is the point of doing anything if you have no idea of what you want to get out the other end? You can run a business as a social experiment but that's not why you do it. Whatever you do in your business you will have had an idea of what the purpose was, to be your own boss, to make money, to do something meaningful, to leave a legacy. What is the outcome you want from how you use tech in your business?

Join Kyle Heath as he sideswipes all the hype and makes technology simple to understand. This week Kyle shares his background, why he loves tech and what gives him the right to talk to you about it.