When it comes to Anti Virus software there is certainly plenty to choose from, and its pretty safe to say that most anti virus solutions offer the same thing; protection against viruses and malware. Sure, you can get all-in-one security solutions which include firewalls, web filters and spyware protectors, but the anti virus engine is [...]

The world of cryptography is vast and often very complicated, that is why today im going to go over the basics of MD5 and explain how it works. MD stands for ‘Message Digest’ and describes a mathematical function that can take place on a variable length string. The number 5 simply depicts that MD5 was [...]

When it comes to surfing the net a lot of people take their anonymity very seriously and why wouldn’t they? A lot of people like their privacy and don’t like the fact that certain sites collect and store information on the user. So what can you do to prevent this and protect your privacy? Well [...]

Mozilla Firefox has become a household name for web browsers and its plain to see that they have had a roaring success in the past couple years. According to w3school’s website, almost 50% of online users are now using Firefox, compare this to around 35% for IE users and its clear to see that Firefox [...]

DHCP (Dynamic host control protocol) is a networking protocol that is used to automatically assign an ip address to a host. DHCP allows network admins to allocate address ‘pools’ to networks and allow clients with DHCP enabled to automatically acquire their ip address. This has several benefits: Cuts out manual configuration and therefore saves time [...]

It’s open season on ITunes alternatives and I’m starting off with a review on a program called CopyTrans Manager which is of course completely free. I do love my iPod, but I truly hate ITunes with a passion and refuse to use it. So obviously it’s important that I have a full functioning alternative. CopyTrans [...]

If you’ve ever had to copy everything from one to computer to another you will know that it can be annoying, not only that but there is usually something you will always forget! Copying your email from one machine to another (or to the same machine if you need to format!) is actually very easy [...]

This is an interesting little problem that I came across a few weeks ago. The scenario was this; I had a windows vista laptop which wasnt connected to a domain trying to authenticate with a windows server machine that WAS connected to a domain. Now with Windows XP I know this wouldnt have been a [...]