Category: Articles
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Password Managers: Simplifying Your Digital Life and Boosting Your Online Security
In today’s digital age, we all have a multitude of online accounts that require a password. Remembering passwords for every single account can be a hassle, and using the same password for all of them can put your online security at risk. This is where password managers come in. In this article, we’ll take a…
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Environmental / Green Considerations
Our aim is to encourage people to: Buy secondhand technology equipment in order to maximise the usage of a product over it’s entire lifespan Repair rather than replace (although we understand that sadly this isn’t always cost-effective) Upgrade their existing technology products instead of buying new (e.g. you can upgrade an older (non smart-TV) to…
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Setting up Telephone, Online or Smartphone App Banking
We can help you set up your digital banking. Whether we like it or not, society is moving further and further towards a digitised way of doing everything. Some people find this process stressful, however or job is to take the stress out of technology. We reduce stress by doing the tasks for you, and…
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Why Does Switching it Off and Back On Again Work?
Roy from the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, famously asked: Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again? You’ve almost certainly heard a similar phrase before when asking someone in IT support for some assistance. You’ll be on the phone and they ask this seemingly irritating question. I’m still surprised how many people…
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Password Safety: Make Your Passwords Different
Nagging. Every professional seems to nag us about something we’re supposed to be doing or not doing these days. The dental hygienist telling us not to drink coffee, tea or indeed anything but water, and the car mechanic reminding us to change our oil and check our tyre pressures regularly, and of course our doctor…
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Noise Pollution Solution: Pink Noise
We were recently asked to help an elderly gentleman with a noise pollution problem, in his case a noisy neighbour with a loud barking dog. The first recommendation with noise pollution is of course to attempt to get the noise stopped, either through politely asking (which let’s face it doesn’t always work, and sometimes even…
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Phishing vs Spear-Phishing
Phishing is a homophone of fishing, although the metaphor of fishing (with a net) can be applied well to phishing. Phishing is where you send out an email to huge numbers of people, in the hope that a small number of people will be tricked by the email, and enter some personal details that allow…
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Password Length Registration Bug
There are some websites that allow you to enter any password length when registering, but when you later sign in, the sign in fails, telling you that the password is incorrect. These websites automatically sign you in straight after registration, and everything seems fine. However these websites truncate the long password you enter, and store that…
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Platonic Ideals and Image Recognition (AI)
In recent years there has been a lot of research and progress in image recognition. One field that has pushed this field forward is deep learning. Deep learning uses artificial intelligence algorithms on big data. Big data usually meaning a subset of data collected from the internet. One example of image recognition was when Google processed millions of…
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Using your tablet as a laptop
Tablets are useful for everything except word processing and spreadsheets. For example the tablet version of the Microsoft Office suite still hasn’t managed to be as useful or as usable as the desktop version. Typing on a Tablet Touchscreen devices like tablets and phones aren’t as good as regular keyboards for activities that require lots of typing such as:…