An infographic (informational graphic) designed by Compliance and Safety LLC shows the typical examples that everyday users will come up against while browsing websites online. Online businesses aren’t always thinking about their users when it comes to privacy. While the infographic is originally designed for the US market, it still is an interesting read for our UK and…
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PC PAL the national computer franchise organisation are delighted to announce that they have now joined ipatter.com, the rapidly expanding free social media platform for businesses. Phil Holmes from PC PAL commented “As a national computer franchise, we know how important it is for our engineers to market themselves and engage with their local customer…
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Ofcom, the telecoms regulator has allowed Everything Everywhere (the owner of the Orange and T-Mobile networks) to use its existing bandwidth to start offering 4G mobile services. Both Vodafone and O2 have expressed disappointment at the decision with Ofcom planning to auction 4G bandwidth to other providers in 2013. Why 4G? 4G means that…
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After Apple unveiled the marginially improved iPhone 4S in the last quarter of 2011, Apple have been returning to their development labs to create the next iteration of its popular phone. PC PAL have been through all current rumours which are circulating the internet, in order to provide you with our summary of the key…
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When Microsoft Windows Vista first launched, many people compared how it performed to XP and being extremely disappointed with the results. Vista was described as generally rough around the edges. Microsoft have been boasting over the past few months how their new operating system, Windows 8 has numerous improvements in performance. On the final release…
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Hard Drives are often considered the slowest part of most computers and by upgrading your hard drive, means a generally faster computer! A solid-state drive (SSD), a relatively new type of hard drive, is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. An SSD has no moving parts…
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Pinterest, the image-based social network has opened its website up to all, relaxing their previous sign-up policy. Prospective users required an invite to become members. Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Launched…
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IT enthusiast, Tony Swenson, is to become the new local PC PAL Engineer servicing and repairing computers and laptops in your homes and businesses around the Central and Southern Bristol area. Tony, who lives in the Bristol area, was interested in becoming self-employed and saw that becoming part of a franchise was a way of…
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Listening to your favourite music online has never been easier with a computer. Whether it’s purchasing tracks from iTunes and Amazon or listening to it using Spotify and YouTube. However, many users are increasingly downloading music for free by ripping the audio from YouTube videos. Mark who owns one of the most popular YouTube converter…
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Do you ever get fed up of seeing advert after advert on your favourite websites? We have the solution. Adblock Plus was announced yesterday as the most popular add-on for Firefox after Mozilla served its 3 billionth download last week. AdBlock Plus is used by 13.5 million users on a daily basis and is available…
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Online Privacy Infographic: You are not safe online
