Happy International Women’s Day 2018!! If you’re not sure what this is or why we need it, you can have a little read about it here. As a small, family business, I’m grateful that my business partner (also my father) Graham, fully supports female equality. There was a memorable incident […]
Most home and small businesses do not use a proxy server to access the internet, so if your computer keeps asking for one, here’s how to disable it. Open the Control Panel In Windows 10, you may need to go to Cortana on the task bar and type in Control […]
The Google Chrome browser seems to be everywhere – I’ve got it on my laptop, PC, tablet and phone. It remembers history, bookmarks etc across all your signed in devices – handy when you were looking at something on your work PC, but just can’t remember the website when you […]
I’m sure you’ve all seen the news over the weekend, of FedEx, Telefonica, NHS and more being infected with ransomware. Please see a quick guide below to explain the situation and find out what you can do to protect yourself. What is Ransomware? It’s like someone kidnapping your data. A […]
We’ve unfortunately had a few customers this week that have fallen for some very convincing scams, so we’re posting some examples on our blog to show you how to tell the fake from the genuine. click to enlarge the image above This e-mail claims to be from Apple, but there’s […]
The most commonly used passwords of 2016 have been released, and I can’t say I’m surprised. We get multiple password queries every week, and with so much of our lives online, you can end up with a LOT of passwords to remember. It looks like that’s just too hard for […]
Your child has been playing quite happily on the gaming apps on their tablet, but one day they come to you and say they need a better PC as they can’t play any “proper” games on it. Help! Games come in all sorts – from educational puzzle solving, to the more grown up […]
It’s nearly Christmas – presents are wrapped (or waiting to be wrapped in my house!), you’re trying to finish the last few jobs before you finish work and desperately trying to remember that thing you didn’t write on the shopping list. But what about the customers that might try to […]
The kids have gone back to school – and with them approximately £3.2 billion worth of technology. And that’s just the under 16s! Phones, smart watches, MP3 players and perhaps even tablets make their way to school every day, with an average of £270 worth of tech per school bag, […]
We all like free stuff! BOGOF offers in the supermarket, free gifts with magazines, a free coffee when you’ve filled your loyalty card… Free software, free downloads, free wifi. But is free always good or safe when we’re talking about computers? Free software comes in two sorts – genuinely free and legal, […]
