If you are a Windows user and have been thinking about switching to a Mac for reasons of more stability, security and less viruses, you might want to check out this video below on Linux Ubuntu. It’s a free alternative to Mac and Windows and best of all, it runs on Windows type hardware so …
Many people are getting calls now from companies who initially identify themselves as Microsoft saying that they noticed you have problems with your computer and they need to be fixed right away before your computer crashes. Once you start questioning them, they sound a little fishy and some will hang up on you right away, …
Happy New Year! Here’s a tip to start your year off right! It’s also serving as a reminder which I will try to do more often for everyone via my Facebook, Twitter and Linked In pages. It’s time to change your passwords for…well…everything probably. OK, so there are two points to this article, one is …
When I started playing around with computers including programming and games, it was around the age of the first personal computer with Commodore 64 using tapes, which then lead to 5 1/2 inch floppies, and then to 3 1/4 inch floppies with the hard shell. We finally got into CD’s which was great! Then DVD’s …
Both of Western Digital and Seagate internal HDD will be changing their warranty policies on the new year of 2012. Western Digital – Effective date on January 2nd, 2012. Desktop and Mobile (Blue and Green family lines) change from 3 years to 2 years. Black product line will remain at 5 years warranty. Enterprise class …
Typically, when speaking with some people, they say “I have Norton installed” or “I have AVG” or some other antivirus program they will quote, telling me it is up to date and doing scans. What they don’t realize, and I explain to all my clients, is that anti-virus software isn’t enough. No matter what program …
As a computer technology expert, author, regular guest speaker on CKWR radio as well as a speaker on Breakfast Television and Rogers Daytime, I write my professional opinion on this issue. From a recent article in York Region’s paper parents are pulling their kids out of school due to health concerns around the wireless network access (WiFi) …
I recently went to order a hard drive through my regular supplier and noticed there are none showing with prices. I asked them and it’s due to the prices of hard drives recently sky rocketing that they can’t keep updating the price list because every day it seems to be going up a bit more! …
Apple vs. Windows. There’s obviously more computer repair shops for Micrsoft Windows than there are for Apple computers. But Microsoft also has more market share too. So you can’t compare directly like this who has repairs more often. You need to break it down by market share, do a little math and figure it out. …
I had my first email money tranfer payment a while ago and deleted it by accident probably thinking it was spam because the person didn’t tell they paid that way, and I called the bank to see how secure this is, and they confirmed the procedure and that it is safe. The only way I knew about …