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  205917th May 2011More and more things using Wi-FiYou expect the latest laptops, phones and a few desktop PCs to have Wi-Fi, but manufacturers are starting to make more and more devices with Wi-Fi built-in to make our lives easier. Things like printers and scanners being Wi-Fi make it easier to all use the same printer on d... Read More
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  19789th May 2011Apple Macs CAN get viruses!Having used Apple Macs for over 16 years, today was the first time I have ever seen a Mac infected with malware! ... Read More
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  440826th April 2011How to fix any computerAn 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-oat... Read More
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  224621st April 2011OMG! LOL in the OED. LMAOLOL (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... Read More
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  443620th April 2011PC PAL Does The Gadget Show Live 2011This 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 o... Read More
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  192920th April 2011Do you suffer packet loss?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... Read More
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  188719th April 201130 years since the first portable computerThings 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 n... Read More
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  237618th April 2011Old Lady Kills the InternetHow 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�... Read More
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  202130th March 2011A Day in the Life….If you ever wanted to know what it is like actually being a PC PAL Engineer, now you can! We have just published our "Day in the Life of a PC PAL Engineer". Take a look....  ... Read More
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  189430th March 2011Getting in-app purchases under control (Parents take note!)Those free apps your kids download on the iPod/iPhone/iPad sometimes aren't so free, when they have extra items to make the game bigger and better, but that cost you money, charged through your iTunes account. Well Apple listened to the parents around the world who'd had rat... Read More