One of the cool new features of Windows 7 is the snipping tool. If you’ve ever needed to send a screenshot to somebody or you’ve needed to get a small portion of the screen into a jpeg then the standard procedure is to do a print screen, load up paint, paste the image in, crop [...]
Maintaining a computer is an important part of ensuring that your system is constantly running at its optimal performance. Without regular maintenance you are bound to experience slow response times, errors and worse case scenario – system crashes that could lead to data loss. You don’t have to be a computer guru to perform basic [...]
Everybody values their privacy and as soon as you step into the online world your privacy is something that is easily exposed, there are people and companies out there who are just dying to get hold of your personal information and even financial details without you knowing, whilst a lot of people might roll their [...]
Cat5 cabling is the global standard used for connecting Ethernet devices together. It is cheap and effective and widely available and so has been used frequently for all kinds of cable run for just about any Ethernet capable device. In the past few years there has been a big movement from standard 10/100 networks to gigabit networks. [...]
Wireless networking has evolved rapidly over the past few years, when it first came out hardware was very expensive and for the most part unreliable, speeds were poor and security was a big issue, this has all changed now of course and wireless networks are expanding and playing a bigger part in home and corporate [...]
The two main types of hard drives in today’s computers are IDE and SATA. IDE are slowly being phased out to make room the newer SATA interface and we will start seeing less and less of the IDE drives as years go on. So what is the difference between IDE and SATA? Let’s take a [...]
The Cisco CCNA certification is a great way of starting a career path in networking. With the CCNA under your belt you will have some great practical knowledge of how networks operate and the different types of hardware and technologies that drive them. If you are studying for the CCNA you want to ideally be [...]
The battle of the browsers has been with us for some time now and we are no longer stuck with Internet Explorer! There are two great alternatives out there, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but which is the best? Well that can depend a lot upon what you want out of a web browser, both [...]
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