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It could be you! PC PAL features in the Business Franchise Magazine!

By PC PAL Team 16th May 2011 PC PAL News 1843
It could be you!  PC PAL features in the Business Franchise Magazine!

Sussex-based Bruce Meredeen, 50, launched his PC PAL franchise in October 2010 following a career in HR.

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Apple Macs CAN get viruses!

Having used Apple Macs for over 16 years, today was the first time I have ever seen a Mac infected with malware!

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How to fix any computer

An illustrated repair guide on popular Tech site Toms hardware has appeared giving people help on repairing their computer. As we are your friendly PC PAL Engineers we thought we would share this guide with you… see the link below: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/the-oatmeal-how-to-fix-computer,12618.html Did any of your find that helpful… NO… I didn’t think you would so…

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OMG! LOL in the OED. LMAO

By PC PAL Team 21st April 2011 Tech News 2302

LOL (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.  The term LOL has been used for more than 20 years as a geek-speak term and has since gone mainstream.  Now I come to think of it I have a couple of mates who speak the word in replacement of laughing…. I for…

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PC PAL Does The Gadget Show Live 2011

By PC PAL Team 20th April 2011 PC PAL News, Tech News 4480
PC PAL Does The Gadget Show Live 2011

This year at The Gadget Show Live there were a lot of companies showing off their latest 3D products, almost all of which required you to wear glasses; only the Nintendo 3DS didn’t. Wouldn’t have minded seeing some 3D TVs that dont need you to wear rechargable glasses. The other area that seemed to get…

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Do you suffer packet loss?

By PC PAL Team 20th April 2011 Tech News 1965

Packet loss occurs when one or more packets of data (a web page, an email…) travelling across a computer network (the Internet, home network…) fail to reach their destination. Most online gamers will have come across this at sometime, high pings and packet losses tend to show up more in online games. There can be…

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30 years since the first portable computer

By PC PAL Team 19th April 2011 Tech News 1924

Things have come a long way in 30 years since the first commercially successful portable computer the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 weighed 10.7 kg (23.5 pounds) with 2 5.25" floppy drives, a 5" display, a 4MHz Z80 CPU and 64KB RAM all for roughly $1,800 (£1108) when new. Other notable portable/laptop/notebook computers since the…

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Old Lady Kills the Internet

By PC PAL Team 18th April 2011 Tech News 2423

How do you bring the internet down for thousands of people?  You might think you would need to hire some top job hacker but you would be wrong…  All you need is to get an older lady and give her a spade and she will sort it out for you.   Yes, that’s what has happened…

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A Day in the Life….

By PC PAL Team 30th March 2011 PC PAL News, Tech News 2055

If you ever wanted to know what it is like actually being a PC PAL Engineer, now you can! We have just published our “Day in the Life of a PC PAL Engineer”. Take a look….  

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Getting in-app purchases under control (Parents take note!)

Those free apps your kids download on the iPod/iPhone/iPad sometimes aren’t so free, when they have extra items to make the game bigger and better, but that cost you money, charged through your iTunes account. Well Apple listened to the parents around the world who’d had rather large amounts of money charged to their credit/debit…

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