March 15, 2016 · Data Backup & Recovery
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
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March 2, 2016 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
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 pr
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February 23, 2016 · Computer Repair
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 ques
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January 15, 2016 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
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 e
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September 9, 2014 · Cybersecurity & Malware
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
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August 12, 2014 · Cybersecurity & Malware
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 i
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July 30, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
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.
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July 20, 2014 · Cybersecurity & Malware
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
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July 10, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
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
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June 20, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
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
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May 30, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Acer is putting out a whole suite of updated apps that will work on mobile devices and PC’s, and with it will be their “Build Your Own Cloud” service. These apps will work on devices from other companies as well. The difference between Acer’s new online storage service and other services like Google Drive is
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April 29, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Right now, Microsoft is hurrying to fix a problem in its popular Web browser that was found over the weekend by security experts at FireEye. This bug is something that hackers have caught on to and are exploiting it as hard as they can. Basically, hackers have began setting up websites that they are tricking
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March 3, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Many of us cant even imagine a world without our precious Gmail. It is pretty much the most perfect email client ever, and for the most part, we rely on it every day. Every now and then, Google will do things to change the look and feel of Gmail. They will add new features, they
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February 11, 2014 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Researchers from IBM and Microsoft have teamed up to make a huge breakthrough in unbreakable cryptography. This huge new development brought to life by the UCLA and MIT team gives us hope that encryption could go further than just protecting an output, and actually protect an entire program. This method of program obfu
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January 14, 2014 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Spyware is a software that secretly gets installed on your computer and can track and record everything you do. They can record what you type, such as personal information you may enter on websites. This information can be used to steal your identity and do massive amounts of financial damage. Generally, spyware gets i
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