One life, one laptop…
Living with a laptop can be a beautiful thing.  But how do you avoid those little mishaps that happen when you least expect them when trying to live your portable lie?  Simple – follow these few simple steps to living a successful life with your fantastic, little, portable laptop;
Battery
When you’re on your [...]

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Power to the laptop…
You have your laptop and you have thought that you might make use of the fact that it was designed to be portable so you unplug it from the wall and sit on your bed or couch – unfortunately your battery is wasting away like sand through your fingers…
You bought a laptop [...]

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Spyware:  Do you have a problem?
Spyware will sneak its way on to your computer without you knowing and without asking you for permission to do so – so how can you know that you are being spied on?  Spyware which is stealing people’s private information, credit card details and passwords effects around 60 per cent [...]

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Speed it up!
Your computer may be slower than a brick but do you know why?  There are reasons, you know…
System Start-Up
It is easy to let it slip but often one of the main reasons why your computer might be lagging is because you have too many unnecessary applications opening when the computer starts up.
This will [...]

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Safety first…
Staying safe online has never been more difficult and has never been more necessary.  Everyone is out to get you and it would seem that everyone is ready to plant a malicious software on your computer so they can steal your information or ruin your day with a virus – nobody said it was [...]

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Spyware can be more dangerous than you might think – it will worm its way into your computer and could cause some unnecessary grief…but what is it?
ParasiteWare
This is the name given to any Adware that overwrites affiliate tracking links which are utilised by webmasters to push and sell products and fund websites.
Although these forms of [...]

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Email on the move…
When you travel you might find that you are quite keen after a while that you want to keep abreast of your emails, maybe even send off a few.  But how?  There are a few methods that are possibly right at your fingertips – read on to discover how you might be [...]

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Surfing the Internet can be a dangerous game – everyone wants what you have and they’ll stop at practically nothing to get your personal and private information – you should be staying safe at every turn!

But how?

There are a number of basic steps that you can take when having a little tootle around the Internet [...]

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Keep up with the fast paced times…
We are now a fast paced society here in the Western world and we have to be able to keep up with the pace.  But how do you do that with a computer that you have had since before the dreaded Y2K worries?  I’ll tell you how…
There are a [...]

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Boosting Dial-Up Internet Connections…
Dial up connections to the Internet are pretty slow but for some people the jump up to DSL and broadband may just be too daunting – there are some tips on how to boost your speed with your dial-up connection that are easier than you might think.
•    Utilise that firewall – Some [...]

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