What To Do If Your Hard Drive Fails
March 15, 2016
The hard drive in your computer or laptop is a mechanical machine that consists of moving parts. Every hard drive on the market has at least one spinning platter along with tiny magnetic read/write heads, two motors, and a lot of circuitry. When your hard drive is working properly, one motor spins the platters while […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Surface Book: A Case Study In Imperfection And Updates
March 2, 2016
When the Microsoft Surface Book released there were an embarrassing number of issues that users quickly noticed. The dreaded blue screen of death kept popping up, drivers would crash, and the docking app for the display would periodically crash. Microsoft heard the concerns of users and assured us that some of these problems would be addressed […]
Read MoreIs My Laptop Worth Repairing?
February 23, 2016
Sometimes our laptops break. It’s inevitable. Nothing we own lasts forever but when our laptop starts acting up it’s a little more heart wrenching because we know that whatever is going on could, potentially, be very expensive to fix. However, when something starts going wrong with our laptop we are faced with the question of […]
Read MoreStill Worried Windows 10 Is Spying On You?
January 15, 2016
What’s the common factor between Windows 10 and some of the most prominent actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood? They are both accused of being spies! Just like Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller (yes, that’s real), Windows 10 has been accused of spying. Specifically, Windows 10 has been accused of spying on literally everything […]
Read MoreEverything You Need To Know About The ‘Peter Pan Virus’ Phishing Emails
September 9, 2014
Thousands of people have been receiving emails with what has become known as the “Peter Pan Virus”. It is a scam email that claims that you have booked tickets to see a pantomime in Bournemouth at Christmas time. A warning has now been issued about this, as it has become a really big deal. It […]
Read MoreYahoo Is Going To Enable Encrypted Emails In 2015
August 12, 2014
With all of the big news right now about widespread Internet surveillance, everyone has been scrambling to counter that with widespread encryption so that the NSA and other spy agencies or hackers can’t access our personal information so easily. Everyone has been trying to encrypt everything. Google was first to jump in, and now Yahoo is […]
Read MoreiOS Security Called Into Question Yet Again
July 30, 2014
Apple has had a really hard time lately trying to defend themselves against claims that iOS is less than secure. They have been called into question two times in less than two weeks. This time, Apple is denying they iOS has a backdoor that allows third parties to get access to their users personal information. […]
Read MoreGoogle Is Using Hackers To Make The Internet A Safer Place
July 20, 2014
Google has launched a new project that they are calling “Project Zero”. They have hired a whole team of hackers for the project, and the whole goal is to find all of the biggest bugs that are scattered across the internet. After the whole Heartbleed incident earlier this year, there has been a growing concern […]
Read MoreThe Windows 9 Preview Is Coming Sooner Than Expected
July 10, 2014
Back in May rumor had it that the Windows 9 preview was going to be available by spring 2015. Since then, there have been some updates that suggest that the preview version of Windows 9 might actually be available much earlier than that. Sources at Microsoft have confirmed with ZDNet that the next version of […]
Read MoreYou Aren’t Getting The Internet Speed You Are Paying For
June 20, 2014
According to a report by the Federal Communications Commission, most of the ISPs out there aren’t even providing their customers with the broadband speeds that they are paying for. Can you believe it? You probably can. Chances are, you are wondering why you even pay for the crappy internet connection you have right now. The […]
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