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As you probably know by now, scams and viruses are constantly making the rounds on Facebook.
The latest threat is spreading like wildfire with the help of the ubiquitous Facebook Messenger app that runs on millions of smart phones and tablets.
Commonly known as “Locky Ransomeware”, this threat is especially bad because there’s no known decryption program available for unlocking a device once it has been encrypted. [Read more…]
Your computer’s hard drive or SSD is one of the most important parts of it.
After all, it stores all of your valuable programs, data files, music and other miscellaneous pieces of your digital life in addition to the operating system itself.
Parted Magic is a powerful suite of Linux-based utilities for testing, partitioning, formatting and cloning your hard drive(s) and/or SSD(s).
Many computer techs (including Yours Truly) use it fairly often for setting up and maintaining the drives in our own machines as well as those of our customers. [Read more…]
CrashPlan has been one of the most popular cloud-based computer backup services for some time, but the company has announced that they will soon stop serving the consumer (home) market.
They stopped accepting new subscriptions and renewing existing ones for their “CrashPlan for Home” service on August 22 and they will be “sunsetting” the service over the next year in order to fully concentrate on the business market. [Read more…]
Just as with a traditional laptop or desktop computer, it’s important to always have a current backup on hand for your mobile devices in case you ever have to restore your files.
Thanks to Apple’s popular cloud storage service known as iCloud, keeping your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch backed up is as easy as 1-2-3. And trust me, there will come a time when you will need it.
Here’s how to enable automatic iCloud backups on your Apple device: [Read more…]
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These days most people seem to prefer laptops over desktop computers, and for good reason. Laptops are portable and they can easily be taken along when traveling.
That being said, some people (myself included) still prefer using a desktop machine while we’re at home or working in the office.
There are several outstanding mid-range desktops on the market right now, one of which is the sleek and powerful Acer Aspire TC.
I’ve used and tested a lot of desktop computers in my day, and I can honestly say this is one of my favorites. It offers plenty of power for the money, and it’s a joy to use.
First, let’s take a look at the specs: [Read more…]