Mozilla Thunderbird is a great free email client which works on Windows, Apple Mac Computer and Linux. The best thing about Mozilla Thunderbird is not only is it free, it also has a been a round a long time (in computer years) and has a massive following, which means it doesn’t look like its going anywhere anytime soon. Because so… Read more →
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Consider Using FreeBSD For Home Server
Why do I need a home server Servers are no longer reserved for the business, colleges and organisation. There are a million reasons why you could want a personal home server for you house. Whether you just want to share media files over the network to other computers to share photos and movies, or if its just to back up… Read more →
Best Linux Tools – Part 2
This post is a continuation of my recent post, Best Linux Tools – Part 1 Virtualisation Wine For all Windows users out there who just have to have one of their Windows applications running on Linux all is not lost. Wine is a Linux program you run on your Linux computer which executes Windows programs. It all sounds a bit… Read more →
Best Linux Tools – Part 1
None of this will be new news for seasoned Linux users, but for a lot more people we are seeing wanting to use Linux as there desktop environment on PC or laptop, we have compiled a list of good Linux tools and applications for the someone thinking about using Linux. Linux is a incredibly versatile and robust operating system. Most… Read more →
Free Dynamic DNS
What is a DNS server You might not know this, but every time you go onto the internet, check your email of use Facebook, you are using a DNS service. Every computer, router or network on the internet has an IP address, something that looks like 123.456.789.123. This is a unique address assigned to a host which identifies it as a… Read more →
Try Ubuntu
What is Linux Linux is an open Source operating system developed by people form all over the world. Open source means anyone can contribute to the project and anyone can download and use it for free. An operating system is special software like Microsoft Windows which provides and environment for people to use their computer. Linux is based on a old… Read more →
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Loophole
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 →
Where can I download Music safely
I get asked the one a lot. Probably because people have tried the usual routes like P2P networking or torrents. Torrents are great and not only used for downloading digital files illegally. Lots of people and company’s use torrents to legally distribute files over the internet. The good thing about torrents are they are not stored and centralised in one place, but… Read more →
Reasons to love Linux
You can use older hardware Unlike Microsoft Windows which with every upgrade slows your computer down if you do not have later hardware, with Linux its not so much an issue. A lot of people use Linux by command line but even as it is making its way into the desktop arena, with every update or upgrade the impact on… Read more →
Helpful Computer Apps #1
Every week or two I am going to start reviewing useful apps I either use or come across. Everybody knows about the basics like Google Chrome or Microsoft Office, but there are a lot of good programs both free and paid for out there that are worth taking a look at. Evernote If you are looking for a notepad/word processor that… Read more →