PC PAL Team's Blog
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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Microsoft have announced the introduction of Outlook.com, their overhaul of its free webmail service, dropping the Hotmail brand it has used since acquiring the product in 1998. Benefits of the revamped service include: The sorting of messages as they arrive tackling the issue of ‘cluttered inboxes. New feature to allow users to make internet calls…
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The London 2012 Olympics are in full-swing, but behind the celebrations, fraudulent websites offering tickets to the Opening Ceremony and Olympic events are being advertised on Facebook and across the internet. The fraudlent website was in fact a ‘phishing’ website that was created to steal personal information from innocent web users. Phishing is attempting to…
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Following coverage on Monday night’s Panorama, a further stark warning to unsuspecting computer users, as well as a plea to regulatory authorities, comes from UK Computer Repair and Support provider, PC PAL. Jat Mann, Managing Director of PC PAL commented “I am pleased that a national television program such as Panorama has brought this matter…
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Do you have your valuable data and files backed up? What would happen if you lost it all due to hard drive failure or something similar? All of your family photos, movies, music and documents lost? Or maybe you have a small business with valuable and legal documents and contracts on your computer? Gone. The…
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Your computer’s Operating System is vital, as it governs the way that hardware and software work together. Windows 7 (W7) is Microsoft’s latest mainstream offering. Here we offer you 11 reasons to consider upgrading if you’re currently using Windows XP or Vista. 1 ) Microsoft will stop supporting XP early in 2014. Before then XP…
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Long-time computer enthusiast, Andrew Wright, is to become the new local PC PAL Engineer servicing and repairing computers and laptops in your homes and businesses around the Denbighshire area. Andrew, who lives in Rhuddlan, has had an interest in computers for over 25 years from playing, using and fixing them. “From the age of 16…
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Suspected internet pirates will have 20 working days to appeal against allegations of copyright infringement and must pay £20 to do so, according to revised plans to enforce the UK’s Digital Economy Act. The details are contained in secondary legislation presented to Parliament and a draft code published by Ofcom. The telecoms regulator said it…
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Tony joins PC PAL serving the Central and Southern Bristol area
