In the US alone, the first three months of this year saw a TENFOLD increase in ransomware payments compared to the whole of last year. Ransomware is malicious software that silently encrypts all your data, then requires payment to decrypt it. It is sophisticated and dangerous. Download your FREE report, covering: What’s behind the current […]
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I’ve been working with Microsoft over the last couple of months to try and resolve a problem entering Latvian characters into Office 2013, and the results were quite surprising. First, some background. The Latvian language, like many others, includes diacritic characters. These are characters that include a diacritic mark, a glyph added to a letter […]
If you have an iPhone or iPad and Wi-Fi, you should be using iCloud Backup. Gone are the days of plugging your device into iTunes regularly to ensure a backup is taken… now we have a very simple but powerful backup system built right into these devices. iCloud Backup is a feature of Apple’s iOS […]
Today I’ve been working with a poor Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone that had got itself in trouble. It would boot to the Samsung logo but no further, causing much anguish to it’s owner who thought he may have lost the precious photos. Luckily, flashing ClockworkMod Recovery and using Android Debug Bridge I was able to […]
Could your small business do with some IT assistance? Do you need a new web presence, or your MYOB accounting system need to go multi-user? Heard that Internet Phones (VOIP) could save you money and want to find out more? Knowing even what’s out there can be confusing as usually you don’t know what you […]
Internode don’t often run to many internet offers, they normally just get down to the business of providing solid, stable, reliable internet. Just take a look at the excellent Broadband Choice forum and take a look which provider Australian geeks prefer. Internode often revise their plans and charges so it pays to keep an eye […]
I enjoy listening to Adam Turner’s view from the couch, and one of his articles from years ago still rings true today. Friends don’t let friends use POP3 was an article written about the use of POP3 vs. IMAP – the two most common email protocols in use today. The crux of the post was […]
If you’re like me and have a lot of passwords to remember, a tool such as LastPass is invaluable. Tools such as these are always a trade-off between security and convenience, but for me I’d be using the same password on many different sites if it wasn’t for LastPass creating random ones for me. So […]