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NO MORE EXCUSES

September 13, 2017 - Security - by admin - No Comments

We recently learned that the cost of cybercrime now exceeds the government budget for the NHS by 70 billion pounds! Just to clarify – the UK NHS budget costs £122bn per year, whilst the cost of fraud to the UK economy is now estimated at £192bn per year. That’s quite […]

Broadband Big Deal is not recommended !!

August 8, 2017 - Broadband - by admin - No Comments

Who can you trust these days? I was recently pleased to see that a group of people had formed to create a good energy deal, fighting back against the big players like British Gas, EDF and Npower. I checked the deal against my current supplier, and unfortunately, as I had […]

My recommended security product just got more expensive – makes you WannaCry (:

July 6, 2017 - Security Software - by admin - No Comments

For the last 3 years or so, Kaspersky has been the recommended security product for PC’s and laptops. I make a point of reading the annual PC Pro Security product labs very closely. It’s somewhat worrying to note that the big high street retailers (the ones, supposedly with “Knowhow”) consistently […]

Windows 10 – Creators Update

May 15, 2017 - Operating Systems - by admin - No Comments

Described by many reviewers as a minor major update, the creators update is still arriving to a bemused public. A definite improvement over previous versions, but containing nothing earth shattering – not that we would want that 🙂 I like the new privacy options given during setup -much clearer […]

Small Business Support

December 30, 2016 - imageslider - by admin - No Comments

working mainly with organisations that don’t yet have a dedicated IT person, I can provide a range of services from regular support, either contracted or on-demand, sourcing of IT hardware and software to your specifications, upgrades, migrations and many other IT related functions gained from over 20 years of experience […]

Home / Domestic PC’s

December 30, 2016 - imageslider - by admin - No Comments

I provide support for home IT users from PC’s to tablets, broadband, printing and home entertainment integration. (Plugging it all into your telly). I can give buying advice, and support with broadband connections, wireless networking, fault finding, security and anti-virus issues, PC and laptop upgrades and replacement, back-up, storage, NAS, […]

Un-google? ha ha

December 19, 2016 - email , Operating Systems , Search Engines - by admin - No Comments

Back in January, I wrote of un-googling. This was before I changed my phone from a Windows 10 driven thing to an Android device. To say it was a big improvement is an understatement. Next shock, after struggling with a private email server for some time, I realised that the […]

Windows 10 – 1st Anniversary – I’m not celebrating :( (Updated!!)

July 11, 2016 - Operating Systems - by admin - No Comments

I have to say, after a year of using Windows 10, I’m somewhere I never expected to be – I can no longer recommend the current version of Microsoft Windows for my customers. Never thought I would be saying that, but the operating system simply isn’t good enough. My main […]

A Conscious un-googling

January 31, 2016 - Search Engines - by admin - No Comments

Some time before Christmas I noticed Google chrome was running increasingly slow on some of my windows computers. Then it began hanging altogether. After this happened a few times, I downloaded Firefox and switched to that as my main browser of choice. Back came the speed I remembered. Then, I […]

Windows 10 – four months on

November 30, 2015 - Operating Systems , Uncategorized - by admin - No Comments

So, windows 10 has been with us, officially for over 4 months. Mainly well received in the press as Microsoft’s “Make or break” operating system I’ve now installed it many times on a variety of computers, either as a fresh installation or as an upgrade. Long enough to develop a […]