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Cloud Storage and File Hosting
INTRODUCTION: We’ve spoken on the subject of data backups and how important they are in the past, but we’ve never really explored the different options available in some of the categories of backup methods. In recent years especially, one of those backup methods has gone from trendy idea to industry standard, and many users find that, […]
Windows Defender: Is it Enough?
A lot of Microsoft’s talk about Windows 10 has been dedicated to its enhanced security features and has even gone so far as to make the claim that a third party antivirus is no longer necessary for Windows users. Windows Defender was originally provided as a free download from Microsoft for the Windows XP platform, […]
Flash and Java Updates
For the past 20 years or so, websites and applications across the world have relied on platforms such as Shockwave, Java, Flash, and Silverlight to show everything from video games to interactive graphics and financial graphs. Although many have declined in use over the past decade, most of the computers in the world still run […]
Windows 10: Cortana
In our previous article, we discussed some of the new features for those looking to make the switch to Windows 10. One of those features was a particularly interesting one – a virtual assistant for Windows. Now, virtual assistants aren’t a new concept – some cars provided such technologies with limited capabilities some time ago […]
Windows 10: What’s Changed
In the previous article, I spoke some about the subject of upgrading to Windows 10, in which I outlined some of the potential problems a user making the switch from an earlier version might experience. However, I also went on to say that Windows 10 has many advantages over the older Windows 7 or Windows 8. […]
Windows 10: To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade
With Windows 10 now maturing into a more main-stream operating system following its July 29th launch a few months ago, nearly every user of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 have encountered the option to upgrade. Now, a FREE upgrade to a brand new version of Windows is unprecedented, given that every previous version has cost […]
Can Macs Get Viruses?
Malware Threats to Macs We all remember the classic Mac Vs. PC advertisements of the late 2000s, where you would see casual “I’m a Mac” asking “I’m a PC” about all of his many problems. PC would then go on an awkward tirade about his glaring flaws and his “this just represents the status quo […]
Solid State Drives: The Next Hard Drive Standard
For decades now, computer systems the world over have been using one form of hard drive most extensively: the Hard Disk Drive. This form of data storage relies on a magnetic disk which is spun rapidly while it has data written to it by a mechanical disk head. As time has worn on, these hard […]