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