Staying on the cutting edge of technology is something most people are passionate about. Over the past few years, smart home gadgets have become extremely popular. In fact, experts predict that nearly 500 billion smart home devices will be sold and shipped this year. If you are in the process of making your home more…
We use our mobile phones to call and message people. To Google any kind of question we have; to communicate and connect socially, and most importantly to store any kind of data we find important. We save important dates, our schedules, our documents and mainly our memories, all our pictures. These pictures are either stored…
Summary: Are you looking for an effective way to backup iPhone data? If so, then go through this quick post and get to know about an effortless tool that can help you to backup messages/photos/contacts on iPhone in three ways. Part 1: Introduction: There is no doubt that iPhone messages, photos, contacts, and other data…
We all know what forensics is used for with investigative work on criminal cases, but digital forensics might not be as clear to our readers. In this article, we cover digital forensics, what it is, why it’s useful and how it can save your sanity. What is it? People who work in digital forensics look…
In the current era, it is extremely important to secure your data. It does not matter which device you’re using. Any data from any devices can be tracked or hacked. That’s why, nowadays, everybody knows what is the VPN. The VPN, in general, is a virtual private network. It is a private tunnel-connection between several…
If you are using Office 365 in your corporate environment, then it’s a pretty safe bet that you are also using some sort of web security. We have come across a quite a few IT professionals that have migrated to Office 365 but have then run into problems with various connections to the web based…
Long before now, Mac users wouldn’t attempt recovering a lost file on their own as there were relatively no options for that. Soon, people began to hear of professionals that specialized mainly in recovering deleted files from iOS devices. But they will have to pay through their nose to get this done for them. Today,…
No financial product has had such a dream run as Bitcoin, the marvel digital currency that has taken the financial world by storm. Bitcoin had a dream run in 2017. However, 2018 turned out to be an anaemic year for the avant-garde currency. Bitcoin’s market cap fell below $100 billion in November 2018, and its…
Using a virtual private network (VPN) these days is a no-brainer. It is the only way to secure yourself from identity theft online. Without one, you may as well be handing out your information to the first person in line. You can lose thousands of dollars, along with your very reputation. But using any VPN…
Security is a must these days and if you have spent as much time as I have on your blog, then you want to ensure that it is safe for your visitors to come to you and submit information, safe in the knowledge that it is protected and secure. Also as a blogger, traffic is…
Introduction Are you trying to access a network share using unauthenticated user credentials? – in simple terms, are you trying to access a network share without using a username and password? If you are, you may run into a problem as Windows 10 does not like you doing this! Assuming that you are trying to…
Have you ever suffered from the hard drive failures, system crashes and invaded viruses in your daily and working life? It must be disagreeable if you deleted your Windows folders by accident, lost the important data due to the hard drive failures and the Windows operating system was unable to boot when your system crashed….
The other day, my best friend screams on the phone asking how to recover deleted photos from iPhone? Well! She had no clue, that she deleted a photo containing important information and needed it urgently. By the time she discovered that the photo is lost and she doesn’t have a backup/copy, she was going crazy…
Staying safe and secure at home is a perennial concern for homeowners. Whether you live in an apartment or in a freestanding home, security is going to be on your mind. There are lots of things you can do to stay safe where you live. Many emerging trends provide guidance to people looking for new…
Wireless Networking, commonly known as WiFi, has made the Internet easier to use now than it ever has been. It has been made faster, stronger and far more accessible, and everybody can attest to this making their life far easier. With all of these positives, however, there does come a downside to WiFi connectivity, and…
Since the upgrade to Windows 10, you may not be aware but your computer may be being used by Microsoft to help distribute Windows Updates. There is a setting within Windows 10 which allows your machine to send updates to other Windows 10 computers on your local network and even on the Internet! What? How…
You may have received an email recently that looks like it has been sent to you from Dropbox about a PDF file that “your contact” has shared with you. The body of the email will look something like this: This is a phishing email and the real sending is trying to get your Dropbox login…
Introduction If you are trying to use Windows Hello to use your face to login to a domain connected device (like a Surface Pro 4 for example) then you may find that the option to set it up is greyed out and not available to you. This seems to be some sort of Microsoft bug and…
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Today the NHS in the UK has come under attack from a ransomware attack causing huge damage to their systems which has had a knock-on effect on patients including cancelled appointments and operations. This attack seems to have been able to attack the NHS due to outdated systems allowing the attack access through the Microsoft…
If you are using Windows 10 then you will know that Microsoft‘s new web browser, Edge, is set as the default browser for the operating system. But if you want to change it then it should be pretty simple right? well it turns out, not quite… It seems that there is a bug when trying…
If you want to use the IIS Management Console on a technician’s computer then you may run into the problem that a lot of people have – simply installing the IIS components and console on the technician’s machine will not work. This is because it will only connect to the localhost – you need to…
We are very pleased to announce the release of our new free utility, PassGenCrypter. With the ever-increasing requirement for stronger passwords, you can use this very simple utility to generate complex passwords with ease. You can select how many passwords you want to generate allowing up to 100 different passwords. You can also select the…
If you have young kids then you may give them your iPad or iPhone to play with to watch kids’ TV, which is especially helpful to keep them entertained when travelling. But, your little treasure might be like ours and although he wants to watch the latest show of Alvin and the Chipmunks, also wants…
Download To download, simply scroll down towards the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as detailed below: Prerequisites This program requires Microsoft .Net 4.5.2 to work correctly. You can download this directly from Microsoft by clicking here. Instructions For…
We have recently been working on MD5 hash codes both in encrypting and decrypting the hashes. So, we have now created a microsite with our work in progress so that our visitors can start to use it and we will work on making it better over time. But before we go any further, we know…
Please note that version 3.0 has now been released which has support for Windows 10. You may have found that if you use the Cisco VPN Client on your Windows 8/8.1 machines, when you type in your username and password, it fails to connect and eventually will stop trying until you see the “Not connected”…
If you have Windows XP, or if like me, you have to rebuild many friends and family members old computers, then you will probably be aware of Microsoft Security Essentials – the free Microsoft security program. Microsoft have provided this free of charge to Windows XP and Windows 7 users for some time now but…
I’ve now taken the plunge and installed Windows 8 Enterprise on my testing laptop and I’m actually quite happy with it after spending the last few months moaning about my Windows 8 Home Premium laptop! Some of the features are excellent and I’m getting used to not having a Start Menu (adding everything I need…
One of the perils of working in IT is that I am constantly asked by friends and family the age old question; What is the best free anti-virus software? Well, there’s plenty of free anti-virus software out there and there is not really an answer to this question – there is no “best” anti-virus software, only…
