Tech Tips

There has been a lot of interest in this new service, and I'm getting asked lots of questions.

A Broadlink RM devices is a fantastic addition to anyone trying to automate their life!

Some quick commands you can run to repair your Windows installation.

Are you blocked from running any .exe files in Windows 10? This might be your solution!

I’ve written a lot of articles about viruses – computer viruses that is, but this is the first one to discuss a real-life virus.   Everybody is talking about the outbreak of Coronavirus or Covid-19 and the impact it’s having on our daily lives.

Changes are starting to happen in the Canadian Cellular market! The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recently held public hearings to discuss the prices that Canadians are paying for cellular service.

Are you involved with, or running a non-profit organization? If so, there could be huge benefits that you’re missing out on!

Not all TVs are capable of streaming Internet TV though, so what are your options and how do you start streaming from the Internet.

In 2018, Google’s revenue was $27.7 billion, of which $24.1 billion was from advertising alone!

On the 27th January 2010, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad to the world.   They’ve been a huge success and to date, Apple has sold over 360 million of them!

It’s become a fact of life now – if you have a phone, you probably receive spam calls

If you've tried cloning a Windows 10 drive to an SSD, but it then boots straight into the recovery console, chances are it's problem with the EFI partition.

Apple have recently found themselves in a tricky situation regarding data security and user privacy.

After a couple of days trying to fix it I was rapidly running out of options

The ongoing saga with Huawei is escalating

Read about my first experience with Cray Supercomputers

Anybody who knows me, knows I’ll be trying to add a touch of gadgets wherever I can!

Windows 7 End of Life is coming - are you ready?

Microsoft Office was announced by Bill Gates on August 1st, 1998 at the COMDEX show in Las Vegas.

If you’re like me, you probably use Google on a regular basis.   Google is a website, but did you know Google also has a “Web Browser”?

If you have a smartphone, you’ll have a plan associated with it that usually has limits. 

Following on from the last article, this time I’m going to be discussing how you can take control of your home network and provide extra protection to those who use it.

A question I’m regularly asked is “how can I improve my Internet at home?”

Passwords are a necessary evil – we can’t live without them, but they’re difficult to manage.

They’re all scams – directly targeting you and using your emotions to fool you into interacting with them!

A change is coming to the streaming TV market that could completely disrupt the industry.

Windows 1.0 was released back in 1985, but it didn’t really gain popularity until Windows 3.1 was released in 1992.

Continuing the development of Microsoft Windows through the years.

In this article I’m going to take a look into what 5G really is, and what impact it’s going to have (if any) on traditional cellular networks.

Last in this three-part story of the history of Apple, we’ll find out how Steve Jobs saved the company and helped turn it into the world’s first trillion-dollar business.

This week we return to the story of Apple, and how they nearly lost everything in the developing cut-throat personal computer market.

As with most tech company stories, Apple’s begins in a non-descript garage in the US.

So, what is Libra? Well, think of it as a new currency, like the dollar

Founded on April 4th, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, both were students at the time and decided to leave and start their own business together.

Back in 1994, on July 5th, an entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos started a new online store which specialised in selling books.

If you’ve searched on Google recently (who hasn’t!) you may have noticed something called a snippet.