Tips & How-to’s

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  360928th February 2014PC PAL Newsletter – February 2014 | How to choose a new ComputerWelcome to the PC PAL February 2014 Newsletter Like any piece of electrical equipment, your computer’s hardware - the bits you can touch, see or hear - will benefit from periodic maintenance, be it removing lint/ dust from inside a Desktop PC’s case to aid ventilation or... Read More
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  209228th February 2014Mark’s on a global missionMark's on a global mission Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have been making the industry headlines in the past week or so. Firstly, they splashed out and eye watering $19 billion for WhatsApp and then the cover talked global domination at this years Mobile World Congress in Bar... Read More
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  198219th February 2014A Camera with a DifferencePanono is a throwable panoramic ball camera with an unprecedented 36 cameras which trigger simultaneously in the air to capture everything in every direction and deliver the first-ever 360° X 360° full-spherical, 108 megapixel panoramic image. So it literally captures ev... Read More
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  273117th February 2014It’ll be app-y days with CamScannerOne of the more widely downloaded and popular apps around has just been upgraded to a new version. This is CamScanner, which claims to have more than 16 million users in 208 countries. For those unfamiliar with it, this is a top performing PDF generator which takes the view ... Read More
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  202417th February 2014A Computer as Easy to Build as LegoKano, reputedly the most crowdfunded learning invention of all time, is a toolkit to allow anyone, including young children, to build a computer and learn to program it.  Over 13,000 people from more than 50 countries raised $1.5 million (in 30 days) to make it a reality. T... Read More
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  254710th February 2014Safer Internet Day 2014 – Let’s create a better internet togetherSafer Internet Day 2014 – Let’s create a better internet together Tomorrow (11th February) is Safer Internet Day. This is organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) in February of each year to promote the safe and responsible use of online technology and mobile ph... Read More
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  191531st January 2014Forecast is worth a punt.Forecast is worth a punt We have certainly had some rain this winter, even though the Midlands has got off comparatively lightly. I have found myself checking forecast more frequently than ever. Since December, though, I have been using a new app. There are a host of free We... Read More
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  327930th January 2014PC PAL Newsletter – January 2014 | Support for XP & Office 2003 endingWelcome to the PC PAL January 2014 Newsletter This month we are dedicating our exclusive extended newsletter to inform our customers (and their friends & family) regarding Microsoft’s decision about ending support for Windows XP and Office 2003 in only a couple of mont... Read More
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  179217th January 2014Stay ahead of the curve with new TVs.Stay ahead of the curve with new TVs. As always in early January, most of the major players gathered in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronic Show to show what they are planning to launch this year and what they are working on for the future. The overdue emergence of 4K tele... Read More
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  187010th January 2014Delivery services are the weak link.Delivery services are the weak link. One thing we will not see in 2014 is Amazon delivering packages using drones. The online shopping giant certainly caught our attention last month when it unveiled its demo of the small craft collecting a package from the Amazon distributi... Read More