Those of you that are still using probably one of the most loved and popular operating systems in all time have been calling me over the past few months as you’ve been seeing scary messages about security and you want to know what you should do. Read this entire article »
We’ve all been there, wondering why our computer is “soooo slow” and not knowing what to do about it. Well this month we look at how you can check the speed of your Internet connection to see if that is the issue. Read this entire article »
Well that was 2019 – and good riddance to it as far as mmyself and my family are concerned, here’s to 2020 and moving forward. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and are also looking forward to a healthy and stress-free year! Read this entire article »
It’s a common issue isn’t it, we have more and more things that we want to connect to our Wi-Fi router as our Internet speed grows quicker and quicker with fibre this and fast Internet that. We want to move around our home and garden carrying our phones and tablets and expect our What’s App call to the UK to remain connected wherever we are in the home BUT most of us experience poor connection spots somewhere around the house. Maybe some of you have a wireless extender or wireless access point in the outer reaches of your routers Wi-Fi area but even this solution means that when you move from one Wi-Fi area to another the connection has to drop and switch and the reality is that most devices “hold on” to the weak signal in preference to moving to the stronger “new” Wi-Fi area – so what can we do? Is there a solution? Read this entire article »
There is a new app available that seems to be making a bit of a name for itself. It uses a very simple concept to locate a person’s smart phone anywhere in the word and is accurate to within 3 square meters. This month we are going to look at the app, how you get hold of it and how you use it. Read this entire article »
For some time now it’s been possible to fit cheap, wireless security cameras that you can access quickly and easily from your mobile or tablet to allow you to check out what is going on at home while you’re away from it. This month we see how easy it is to set a system up. Read this entire article »
Can you believe that Summer 2019 is upon us already? I guess we’ve been quite lucky this year with what seems to have been a mild winter, but I for one can’t quite believe that we are almost into the “melting temperatures” time of year again! Read this entire article »
This month a friend of mine lost access to their Hotmail email account. They blamed Microsoft for something that they really shouldn’t have and this month I’d like to ensure that the same doesn’t happen to you. Read this entire article »
This month we are going to review something really quite important in terms of your computer’s health. From time to time you might be asked to “clear your cache” (it’s pronounced the same way as cash by the way). Maybe it will be your bank asking you to do this because of a problem accessing the website or some other person advising you to do it in order to try to fix a potential problem. Read this entire article »
Few things in “modern” computing time have made as much of a dramatic difference to the speed of computers as solid state hard drives. Computer technology and speed increments over time, we know that. I’m regularly asked “Why is my computer slow?” and of course the answer is “it depends”, it depends on many different things but it normally comes down to only three – the type of processor, how much RAM the computer has and the type of hard drive. It’s this last part that we are really interested in exploring this month. Read this entire article »