August 6th 1991 was a special day in the world of computers, it was the day that Tim Berners-Lee published the first ever website. I doubt many of you actually remember that website, but that is because the only people who had the software to view it, worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). […]
The smart phone seems to be everywhere these days. Gone are the days where it was purely a business tool, it seems that no matter what age or gender, there is a smart phone to suit your needs. Unlike standard phones, smart phones hold a lot of very sensitive information. For example, your smart phone
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Talk to you. Launch Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type say hello and press Enter. Then type say followed by anything else and it will speak it for you. Stacks & Expose in slow motion. Show off your Mac’s incredible graphics capability with a press of the Shift key. Hold down Shift and click one of your Docks Stacks & watch
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A lot of people have recently been hit with the old fake tech support scam. This is what happens – You receive a phone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft or some other well known tech company. They inform you that your PC has been flagged on their system as having a virus or corrupted
Over the years, the cost of a new home printer has dropped dramatically. Today, you can buy a Multifunction Inkjet Printer (Printer/Scanner/Copier) for as little as €40. On the face of it, that might seem like a bargain and for the hardware, it probably is, but hidden behind that initial low cost printer are some
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We all love our digital cameras. Because most mobile phones have a camera built in, we take them with us almost everywhere we go, ever ready for that “Kodak gold” moment. Sometimes, though, well your picture just doesn’t look right. Maybe there is a power line in the way. Perhaps everyone in the picture has
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Over the last few days, Google Docs has added viewing support for 12 more file formats as detailed below. Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
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I have blogged about the importance of backing up before but every once in a while I have to work on a client machine to try to restore deleted or lost files that are important to the client.
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