Tips & How-to’s

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  443226th April 2011How to fix any computerAn 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-oat... Read More
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  191830th March 2011Getting 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 rat... Read More
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  234425th March 2011The War of the BrowsersIE9 Crowned Best Browser by Toms Hardware   Internet Explorer is the world’s most popular browser, the one which comes with your computer and auto updates to the latest version.   For this reason it’s still the browser of choice for most people.   But for us co... Read More
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  19371st 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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  214715th July 2010DIY Computer Repair Videos Launched by PC PAL!PC PAL have recently launched a series of DIY computer repair videos, designed to help you improve the performance of your computer! Take a look..... ... Read More
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  206419th May 2010Why do I care if I have a computer virus?I have visited a few customers recently who have known that they have had a virus for some time but have not considered it worth taking action. They have considered the virus to be nothing more than an irritation, a little like catching a common cold. So why would anyone bot... Read More
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  217129th April 2010How to import photos from your iPhoneIf you thought importing photos from your iPhone was a nightmare, we have the answer! ... Read More
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  179514th April 2010Useful iPhone tips – Enable CAPLOCK on the iPhoneThere is a cap lock feature on the iPhone. All you need to do is enable the caplock in Setting->General->keyboard. After that when typing just double tap the shift key so it turns blue and you will be able to TYPE IN CAPS.... Read More
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  23071st March 2010Keep your kids safe online!Steve Lane, PC PAL franchisee for Leicester South and Market Harborough writes: It seems that the generation gap these days is also a technology gap.  Children these days are often referred to as the “Facebook Generation”.  Many parents are not familiar with the techno... Read More
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  202326th February 2010Are you ready for a disaster? – Part two – Risk and controlSteve Lane, PC PAL franchisee for Leicester South and Market Harborough writes: In part one of this blog we looked at a simple method of identifying the information assets most critical to your organisation and the impact of having them made unavailable or corrupted.  Havin... Read More