Add Wi-Fi to digital cameras
This is basically a 2 GB SD memory card, but with a little something extra. Once placed in the card slot of your favourite digital camera, it will turn it into a wi-fi enabled device, so there will be no more waiting around to store your latest pictures, just click and go.
But once set up, [...]
Microsoft new products more secure
In its third report on viruses, spyware, malware, trojans and root kits the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report which covers the first half of this year has shown that the information that the company receives back from the Malicious Software Removal Tool shows that Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 had much lower infection rates than [...]
October 29, 2007PDF’s can damage your computer
Since Friday there has been a whole load of emails being sent out to unsuspecting consumers, they look very similar to a credit card statement, but in fact do carry a very nasty surprise for whoever opens the PDF attachment. For once opened they begin to download software onto the machine.
The PDF comes as an [...]
TV via Computer a reality?
What started off as Google images lead to the development of YouTube which when it became popular become a Google asset, however this has shown that video and in particular TV is great for the internet and for consumers in general, after all the internet and computing are really taking off and it is only [...]
October 24, 2007$500,000 Bail for hacker
A nineteen year old hacker is on a massive $500,000 bail after he hacked into the Orange County police department in California and sent a heavily armed SWAT team to an address of a family who were completely aware of what was about to happen!
As the SWAT team began to make their move, the house [...]
Apple falls behind Dell
In a recent survey commissioned by surveyu.com a thousand students were asked about their computer preferences and there is a surprise as to which brand of computer that they prefer for their school work.
According to the results it is Dell that comes in first, with Apple second. But it is believed that Apple will be [...]
Backing Up Your Data
It’s amazing how many people do not back up their computers or more precisely backing up the data saved on the hard drive. Most computer users know about backing up, but many fail to do so and the more popular reasons are the following:
Not knowing how to.
The cost involved in backing the data up.
The actual [...]
Need Extra Bandwidth?
Most people would answer yes to that, but is it really possible? Well most broadband services never provide the stated amount when you sign up for you package, so 100% of the bandwidth is virtually impossible.
However with Windows XP it may be possible to get an extra 20%, this is because of the QoS Scheduler, [...]
A Virus for Computers and Humans
Could this be possible? Well consider this, your working in a very high pressure environment, say something like a sales office or accounts. You arrive at work as normal and begin to go through the daily grind but it’s not working, suddenly you find its lunchtime and you are well behind, what’s happening?
The computer is [...]
4 TB Hard Drives coming soon
As technology relentlessly moves on, it is a general view that devices will either become smaller or better and in some cases both. But making things smaller throws up complications, for hard drives it means by making them smaller the magnetic field would be harder to detect. But with major advances in reading head technology [...]