Well it’s that time of year again, and if you don’t completely feel in the Christmas spirit yet, don’t worry, Vella is here to help!
Listed below are 22 of the best Christmas wallpapers we have found around the internet to bring a bit of Christmas cheer to your desktop. To set one as your background simply click the one you like to enlarge it, then right click on that image and select “Set as Background” or “Set as Desktop Background”. Please note that these will work best if you have a widescreen monitor at 1440×900 resolution.
Better yet, with the help of a free bit of software you could have them randomly rotated. Just keep reading past all the thumbnails below for instructions.
So from us all at Vella Technology, have a very happy Christmas!
So what about showing them all randomly? Well, if you use Windows XP or Vista there is a bit of software that can help called “Wallpaper Slideshow LT”, and can be downloaded for free from www.gphotoshow.com/wallpaperss.htm (download links are on the right).
Simply install the software, and point it to a folder on your PC where all the christmas wallpapers are stored. For more detailed instructions on how to use the software, visit www.gphotoshow.com/wps_tutorial/wallpaperss-tutorial.htm
Using Windows 7? Then you already have the random wallpaper feature built in to Windows. A nice tutorial on how to set this up can be found by clicking here.
At Vella Technology we are always aiming for not only the best possible value, but also great service and customer care. And it hasn’t gone unnoticed!
We recently started to invite customers to leave feedback on our services and today we have officially launched a new page on our website showing all reviews we receive, good or bad! We made sure that an external and reliable company handled all our reviews so that you could be sure that they are unedited and unbiased.
Reviews are important to us. Not only do they give you, the customer, the reassurance you need that Vella Technology is a reliable company to deal with, but it also allows us to make sure we are delivering the best possible service at all times.
Getting feedback from our customers is critical for us so that we know we’re doing the best job possible, and so it was great to receive the following email from a very happy customer.
Being the sceptic I am, I was a little suspicious that your excellent value callout charge would possibly be reflected by the standard of service given. Having experienced for myself your services today in helping to resolve a challenging software corruption issue, I just had to register my appreciation.
Your engineer Richard was absolutely fantastic. Firstly, he arrived five minutes ahead of the promised response time of just over an hour. Secondly, he immediately busied himself at tackling the task in hand, which was a truly challenging one, and two hours and twenty minutes later all was well.
Thirdly, he gave my PC a full health check and left two quality bits of software to help offer further protection, all this for £35 inclusive of a thirty day guarantee if the problem occurs again!
His customer service skills were excellent throughout. As a result I cannot praise your company enough for doing exactly what it says on the tin and more!
I will certainly be recommending you to others and wish you every success for the future. How refreshing it is to receive such service these days, Well done and many thanks.
Watching the video below reminded me exactly why Vella Technology was created.
It shows an undercover operation by Sky News when they took a number of faulty laptops into various repair shops. One in particular is highlighted as they are clearly shown browsing through personal files, stealing personal details and then overcharging their customers!
Don’t forget, Vella Technology does everything in your own home, and we’re more than happy for you to be there the whole time; we even encourage it! And that’s not even taking into consideration our amazing fixed fee prices.
So as they say (or used to say) on a popular BBC TV Program, don’t have nightmares, and do sleep well
P.S Our homepage has had a little revamp! Feel free to check it out.
It’s something that’s happened to us all. Our lovely computers are working fine for years, providing enjoyment and keeping the whole family entertained. Then suddenly it starts playing up, things don’t work like they used to, or worse still it breaks completely and won’t start!
It could be anything, from getting infected with a virus, or Windows might be going abnormally slow or throwing up loads of error messages.
The first thing that enters our mind is “great, now I’ll have to get it fixed”. You’ll then start going through names of friends and family that might have a bit of technical knowledge in the hope they can help you out.
Sometimes you’ll get lucky, there will be someone that takes a look and manages to get it working again. It might not get done in the most elegant way, but it seems to work and that will be all that matters.
One thing you probably never think about is what browser you are using to view web pages. In fact, the vast majority of you reading this right now will be using Internet Explorer and you’ll be quite happy with that. And, as long as you’re using the latest version, there’s nothing wrong with that.
You might like to know however that there are others. A popular alternative is one called Firefox, which amoungst other features is supposed to be faster and more secure than Internet Explorer.
At Vella Technology some people use Internet Explorer, but some prefer Firefox. Reasons for using Internet Explorer range from “It’s there, and it works” right up to “I don’t want to install more programs”. But people that use Firefox will say “It’s faster than Internet Explorer” and that “there are thousands of add-ons you can download to make it better”.
One thing for certain is that it wont harm if you give it a go, and now is a great time to start as they have just released a new “faster” version.
It’s time to start enjoying that computer of yours! If you’re a new computer user or even if you have been using computers for a while, this guide will help you to enjoy your PC, keep away nasty viruses, and give you some general hints on how to keep your PC running nice and fast.
Being a company that offers a Virus Removal service, we see our fair share of nasty viruses running wild on people’s computers. They aren’t nice things to have, and if we’re honest some are a real pain to remove!
Of course, once we remove the virus our customers naturally ask us how they can stay safe online and you would be surprised at how simple it is!
Our customers are genuinely surprised that they could have installed a virus, as most of the time they are running virus software which is of course meant to prevent such a thing from happening.
Unfortunately though they can only do so much, so you need to follow a few simple rules in order to stay super safe on the net! And that’s exactly what we’re about to guide you through in this blog post.
Please Note: This is a guide to stay safe on the internet. If you already have a virus this guide isn’t going to help you much until you get it removed. As long as you are within 30 miles of Colchester Essex, we can come and remove it for a fixed fee of just £35. Click for more details…
There are many things that you need to do in order to start a business that has any chance of success in today’s current financial climate. There are significant start-up costs and detailed systems must be put in place for keeping records of every transaction. The whole thing is a rewarding adventure from having a business plan approved and opening a business bank account to satisfying your first paying customer. However, even with the most perfect set-up there is a determining factor that will contribute largely to whether a business will succeed or fail. This factor is something that is developed before opening a business banking account is even thought of, but what could it be that is so important and developed so early? What I am talking about is of course a concept, an idea, a belief.
Vella Technology (before any name was given to it) was created at idea level in partnership between two people who like computers. Computers are our hobbies. It is not as if we have had nothing to do with them in our spare time and then have chose to embrace them due to some kind of business potential. Instead quite the opposite is true. Over a number of years we have built our own computers, built them for friends and helped rectify a number of computing solutions. Along the way it has come to our attention just how much the large popular computing businesses take advantage of their customers.
High street shops are over-charging customers for mass produced computers with poor components and little room to upgrade the computer at a later date. It is unfortunately the nature of computing technology that things move quickly. Depending on what you use your PC for it is quite normal that a top of the range PC today may be mid-range in a year’s time and low range in two years time. This is a problem that hits PC gamers particularly hard, but affect all PC users. High-street stores are aware of this and they operate on the basis that a customer may well replace their entire PC system when it becomes low-range and has fallen behind the times. Essentially this means a customer may be looking at purchasing a machine for £700 and then buying a completely new one in 2-3 years time. It is a situation that the user is forced into buy the retailer due to the fact that a PC should be “upgradeable” and yet the high street machines are usually not. If a PC is built correctly then as technology advances and newer/better PC’s are created and sold, the old PC should be able to be “upgraded” with additional hardware in order to make it as good as the newer PC’s. The cost of doing this is far less than buying a new system as it is likely that not all of the components within the PC are going to be replaced, just a selected couple (wherever the market has advanced).
A PC user should be able to pay £700 for a new PC and then spend £150 in a couple of years rather than buy a new system and spend £700 again. PC manufacturers are selling PC’s that are purposefully difficult and costly to upgrade in order to force the customer to purchase an entirely new system when thier old system no longer suites there requirements. As PC enthusiasts this upsets us. A further thing that upsets us is the quality of components that are usually used within the mass produced machines that high street stores sell. When buying a PC all that the customer is presented with is the specifications list. There can be a great deal of difference between components of different quality despite appearing to have the same specification. A prime example of this is usually found with RAM (memory). The quality of RAM on a mass produced machine from a high street store will not be good. They use the cheapest components they can source and even though the specification of 2GB may be the same with higher quality components the lower quality RAM will have greater failure rates as well as running at lower speeds ultimately effecting both the performance and reliability of the PC. This is an attitude taken by most mass manufacturers and retailers and is something we find upsetting as we believe all PC’s should use quality components to ensure that they are running at their optimum.
As you can see, in terms of raw PC sales there are many areas where customers are taken for granted by popular retailers, but this is not where the exploitation ends. Most retailers offer certain post-sale services for astronomical prices. Many new PC owners would be unsure as to how to set up their new PC or how to get online. Asking high-street retailers about a set up and delivery service is in many cases a bit like asking just exactly how much they are willing to take for doing very little. An unsure customer should be provided with reassurance, advice and if required a cheap method for delivery and set up of their new PC so that they are raring to go. It seems unreasonable to take advantage of a novice PC buyer in this situation, especially as they have just parted with a large amount of money for the system itself.
Leading on from the astronomical cost of getting somebody into the customer’s home to help with set-up with a new PC is the price of actually managing to get any kind of support with a computing problem. Obviously if the problem is hardware based then it is possible that any damage or fault may be covered by warranty or insurance. The problem is that many computing issues are not hardware related. The charge of getting an “IT expert” to listen to or look at any issue you may be having seems unreasonable all round. Many “IT experts” offer a call-out service, but the customer can then be expected to pay a call out fee plus a high hourly rate. This is something else that upsets us and appears exploitive of the customer. Why should the customer be forced to pay an hourly rate to somebody who is doing a job that could take any amount of time? In this situation the customer has no way of checking if the serviceman is performing efficiently or drawing the process out in order to get an extra hours pay. We don’t believe it is a position that anybody with a Computing issue should be put in.
Vella Technology was created as an alternative to everything we felt was wrong in the market. As computing enthusiasts we wanted to build the business that we would have liked to have dealt with, offering low prices, high quality and a good relationship with its customers across the board. As a result we aim to maintain a number of key principles:
To sell PC’s that use high-quality components and are not mass-produced.
To sell PC’s at reasonable prices despite the high quality.
To offer free delivery and set-up within the Essex area and affordable alternatives to those further away.
To offer cheap call-out services at low fixed prices so that the customer knows the final cost prior to agreeing to any work.
To adopt a friendly and helpful attitude towards customers.
To respond to any contact from customers promptly and efficiently.
At Vella Technology we are always aiming for not only the best possible value, but also great service and customer care. And it hasn’t gone unnoticed!
It’s something that’s happened to us all. Our lovely computers are working fine for years, providing enjoyment and keeping the whole family 
