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  182816th February 2011Would you buy a house with no broadband?Good schools, low crime and south facing gardens. These are all important points we might consider when we look to buy a house. But after reading this article from hexus.net about broadband availability affecting the value of your home, it got me thinking.  Would I buy... Read More
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  207215th February 2011Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 RCMicrosoft have just released Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate, which means its almost ready for "prime time". With IE 9 Microsoft have begun to follow the different standards set out for web browsers to follow so websites look the same no matter what browser y... Read More
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  205410th February 2011Great News for Franchise Loan FundingThe Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest Banks this week announced they are making £100 million in new loans with discounted fees available to the UK franchise industry. So, great news for anyone considering investing in a franchise. ... Read More
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  99061st February 2011Creating Your Own Website – WordPress 101For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last 10 years, WordPress is a full featured Content Management System which was basing on an older blogging platform called b2.  Over 25 million people have chosen to install WordPress to run their website. So lets ... Read More
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  20581st February 2011Have IPv4 internet addresses finally run out?Some of the last remaining blocks of IPv4 (Old) internet addresses were given to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNic) today. So now the countdown can begin with the new IPv6 internet addresses that we have left, so only 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,... Read More
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  20511st February 2011More bogus calls claiming to be from MicrosoftOur PC Engineers were at a job with a customer, repairing a desktop computer when the customer had a call claiming to be from "Microsoft" about a virus problem, the customer promptly said that she was busy and put the phone down. Keep vigilant!... Read More
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  19921st February 2011Printing from your iPhone, iPod or iPad with Mac OS XIf you haven't got a shiny new HP Airprint enabled printer, you could always try running Airprint Activator on your Apple Mac OS X laptop or desktop. Just printed a few emails on an Oki printer.... Read More
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  198918th January 2011The end of the Internet?The old Internet (IPv4) addresses are going to run out in the next few months. But we should be OK for a little while still because most Internet Providers (BT,Talktalk, Sky, Virgin etc) have addresses in reserve, but if they don’t they could just use a bigger version of a... Read More
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  193620th December 2010Computer Repairs in the Snow!!We may have had the worst snow for 25 years but the guys at PC PAL HQ are still out on the road, saving the computer world, one PC at a time! Take a look.... You can still see the PC PAL logo of course!! Who's the insane guy with the t-shirt?!!!... Read More
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  20299th December 2010Snow and SuperfastSnow joke, is it, deciding government policy on superfast broadband? Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gets spoonerised just as he's announcing £50M of funding whilst his colleague Communications Minister Ed Vaizey has to abandon a meeting with fibre optic providers when one of... Read More