Do you have your valuable data and files backed up? What would happen if you lost it all due to hard drive failure or something similar? All of your family photos, movies, music and documents lost? Or maybe you have a small business with valuable and legal documents and contracts on your computer? Gone. The…
READ MORE...Your computer’s Operating System is vital, as it governs the way that hardware and software work together. Windows 7 (W7) is Microsoft’s latest mainstream offering. Here we offer you 11 reasons to consider upgrading if you’re currently using Windows XP or Vista. 1 ) Microsoft will stop supporting XP early in 2014. Before then XP…
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Long-time computer enthusiast, Andrew Wright, is to become the new local PC PAL Engineer servicing and repairing computers and laptops in your homes and businesses around the Denbighshire area. Andrew, who lives in Rhuddlan, has had an interest in computers for over 25 years from playing, using and fixing them. “From the age of 16…
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Suspected internet pirates will have 20 working days to appeal against allegations of copyright infringement and must pay £20 to do so, according to revised plans to enforce the UK’s Digital Economy Act. The details are contained in secondary legislation presented to Parliament and a draft code published by Ofcom. The telecoms regulator said it…
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Some of you may of seen not that long ago that Microsoft unveiled their new Surface Tablets, expected to launch around Autumn 2012. As always, they have been lots of articles on the pros and cons of what Microsoft Surface has to offer, as well as a little chuckle when Steven Sinofsky, the President of Windows and Windows…
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We wrote and article a little while ago regarding John Savage, PC PAL engineer for the Bath and Bristol East region. John has been training long and hard for a 24-hour bike marathon on the 7th June 2012 in aid of charity Jamie’s Farm. Here is John’s latest update on his training regime! I’ve been training…
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Running enthusiast, John Whitecross, is to become the new local PC PAL Engineer servicing and repairing computers and laptops in your homes and businesses around the West End of Glasgow and the surrounding area. John, who lives in Glasgow, had previously studied a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Studies after his under graduate degree, he…
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Computer and technology enthusiast, Damian Holland, is to become the new local PC PAL Engineer servicing and repairing computers and laptops in your homes and businesses around the Stockport area. Damian, who lives in Hazel Grove, has always been interested in computers and how they work, upgrading them as necessary and learning about the operating systems….
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Do you have an iPad? Do you have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews? If you answer yes to both questions we bet the kids love playing on your iPad! No matter what age, whether they are pre-school or at that lovely teenager phase, they want to borrow it, use it, try it out, play with it,…
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The PC PAL site is now compliant with UK cookie Law. You may have notice a lot of talk about cookies recently that’s because of a new EU originated law effecting how website are allowed to set cookies. The UK law allows website owners to use “implied consent” allowing their websites to function normally but…
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