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A lot of people can be forging for thinking their whole computer desktop tower or laptop is the hard drive when referring to it. But the actually hard drive, the device responsible for storing files and operating system such as Windows 10 is actually a little box the size of your hand within the computer or laptop. Your hard drive… Read more →
There have been a lot of rumors the last two weeks about Dropbox getting hacked and a lot of peoples username and passwords being taken and used by criminals. Considering a lot of people use Dropbox and keep information in it they consider important, not might be a very good time to do a password change. What is Dropbox Dropbox… Read more →
Already this second half of 2016 we are seeing a lot more people get scammed and computers hacked. Unlike traditional computer hacking, where you imagine some teen boy on his computer under a house, most of the scams and people being taken advantage of (we are seeing) are coming from people in which the scam is actually starting over the phone.… Read more →
Its been a long time coming but as of the last day in July 2016 Microsoft are no longer offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade to most Windows 8, 8 and 8.1 users. What seems kind of counterintuitive because Microsoft wants people to use Windows 10 seem weird they would put a shelf life on when you had the… Read more →
One of the smartest thing you can do when it comes to your computer or phone is back up. Although we all know the importance of backing up, few of us actually do it. And its like something magic to do with the universe. Right when we think we should back up but don’t get time to, is always around the time… Read more →
External hard drives are fickle devices. Sensitive to rapid movements, heat, power surges and sometimes even moods they can quickly go from being a handy device to a nightmare. External hard drives which can include thumb drives or usb drives and easy ways to back up your important information such as documents, photos and tax information and a great place to… Read more →
Living in the north presents a whole new range of problems that people living down south. I have done computer work all over the world and the problems users in Townsville have compared to most places are significantly different and ones computer manufactures ignore because most of the word lives in the cool. When it comes to desktop computers there… Read more →
What is Ransomware Ransomware is a type of malicious software put on your computer which basically locks you out of your entire computer or particular functionality until you pay some money (ransom). Ransomware is like a virus and comes under the banner of malicious software and should be treated as so. Most cases of Ransomware will restrict total access to… Read more →
For the most part your optical drive bay, where you put your cd into the computer, is used for the delivery of information to your computer. A lot of the time you can get data (music, movies, information) onto your computer via USB thumb drive or downloaded form the internet. However, for larger amounts of data such as High Definition Video and… Read more →
Everyone who has anything important on their computer should backup. We all now we should, most of us intend to, but few of us actually do! I am guilty of it too. Every few years something happens to one of my computers like a power surge, virus, or hardware, problem usually hard drive fail and I loose all the information… Read more →
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