Archive for February, 2011

Would you buy a house with no broadband?

By PC PAL Team 16th February 2011 Tech News 1860

Good schools, low crime and south facing gardens. These are all important points we might consider when we look to buy a house. But after reading this article from hexus.net about broadband availability affecting the value of your home, it got me thinking.  Would I buy a house if it had no broadband? I’m a…

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 RC

By PC PAL Team 15th February 2011 Tech News 2104

Microsoft have just released Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate, which means its almost ready for "prime time". With IE 9 Microsoft have begun to follow the different standards set out for web browsers to follow so websites look the same no matter what browser you use, its something Microsoft haven't done since IE 4. So…

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Great News for Franchise Loan Funding

By PC PAL Team 10th February 2011 PC PAL News, Tech News 2090

The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest Banks this week announced they are making £100 million in new loans with discounted fees available to the UK franchise industry. So, great news for anyone considering investing in a franchise.

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Creating Your Own Website – WordPress 101

By PC PAL Team 1st February 2011 Tech News 9965

For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last 10 years, WordPress is a full featured Content Management System which was basing on an older blogging platform called b2.  Over 25 million people have chosen to install WordPress to run their website. So lets ask the obvious questions….. So what…

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Have IPv4 internet addresses finally run out?

By PC PAL Team 1st February 2011 Tech News 2097

Some of the last remaining blocks of IPv4 (Old) internet addresses were given to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNic) today. So now the countdown can begin with the new IPv6 internet addresses that we have left, so only 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 to go……. Hopefully we will be able to login to 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3 or there maybe a lot of…

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More bogus calls claiming to be from Microsoft

Our PC Engineers were at a job with a customer, repairing a desktop computer when the customer had a call claiming to be from “Microsoft” about a virus problem, the customer promptly said that she was busy and put the phone down. Keep vigilant!

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Printing from your iPhone, iPod or iPad with Mac OS X

If you haven’t got a shiny new HP Airprint enabled printer, you could always try running Airprint Activator on your Apple Mac OS X laptop or desktop. Just printed a few emails on an Oki printer.

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Triple Finalists in Franchise Marketing Awards!

By PC PAL Team 1st February 2011 Awards, PC PAL News 2101

PC PAL are thrilled to have been named finalists with all 3 of our entires into The Franchise Marketing Awards!

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