With a new tranche of students preparing to start university and others who are at university returning after the summer break it is time to ensure students laptops are ready and able to meet the challenges of the coming year. Prior to the start of the university year it is advisable to perform a range [...]
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The vast majority of us use wireless router technology at home making internet access and interconnectivity between our PCs/Macs quicker and easier. Unlike a cabled connection WiFi does not have the inherent security of a physical connection since the walls of the house do not act as an absolute barrier to your WiFi coverage. It [...]
We are hearing more and more about mobile privacy and in particular the risks introduced by the rise of smartphone devices such as those based on Android, Apple, Symbian and Windows Mobile. These are devices that enable the user to install additional applications or widgets on it. The flexibility provided by these platforms enables us, [...]
We all suffer from spam which may or may not be the result of our own actions. Whenever we interact with a site or company on the internet we leave a trail and whenever we provide our email address (even for the most innocent of reasons) we leave ourselves open to the threat of spam [...]
There are a wide range of reasons why you may be unable to boot your computer ranging from problems with scheduled fixes to problems with user configuration and hardware failure. The point at which the PC fails can help us understand whether the problem is hardware, ROM (the memory that supports the initial boot process [...]