Archive for April, 2011

How to fix any computer

An illustrated repair guide on popular Tech site Toms hardware has appeared giving people help on repairing their computer. As we are your friendly PC PAL Engineers we thought we would share this guide with you… see the link below: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/the-oatmeal-how-to-fix-computer,12618.html Did any of your find that helpful… NO… I didn’t think you would so…

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OMG! LOL in the OED. LMAO

By PC PAL Team 21st April 2011 Tech News 2385

LOL (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.  The term LOL has been used for more than 20 years as a geek-speak term and has since gone mainstream.  Now I come to think of it I have a couple of mates who speak the word in replacement of laughing…. I for…

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PC PAL Does The Gadget Show Live 2011

By PC PAL Team 20th April 2011 PC PAL News, Tech News 4609
PC PAL Does The Gadget Show Live 2011

This year at The Gadget Show Live there were a lot of companies showing off their latest 3D products, almost all of which required you to wear glasses; only the Nintendo 3DS didn’t. Wouldn’t have minded seeing some 3D TVs that dont need you to wear rechargable glasses. The other area that seemed to get…

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Do you suffer packet loss?

By PC PAL Team 20th April 2011 Tech News 2039

Packet loss occurs when one or more packets of data (a web page, an email…) travelling across a computer network (the Internet, home network…) fail to reach their destination. Most online gamers will have come across this at sometime, high pings and packet losses tend to show up more in online games. There can be…

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30 years since the first portable computer

By PC PAL Team 19th April 2011 Tech News 2000

Things have come a long way in 30 years since the first commercially successful portable computer the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 weighed 10.7 kg (23.5 pounds) with 2 5.25" floppy drives, a 5" display, a 4MHz Z80 CPU and 64KB RAM all for roughly $1,800 (£1108) when new. Other notable portable/laptop/notebook computers since the…

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Old Lady Kills the Internet

By PC PAL Team 18th April 2011 Tech News 2524

How do you bring the internet down for thousands of people?  You might think you would need to hire some top job hacker but you would be wrong…  All you need is to get an older lady and give her a spade and she will sort it out for you.   Yes, that’s what has happened…

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