What’s worse than a fake friend? A fake friend request on Facebook. Cybercriminals may pose as a relative or friend to infiltrate your friends list and once there could attempt to ask for money or use malicious links designed to do the their dirty work. When you receive any friend request icheck the person’s profile before you hit ‘accept’. Warning[Read More…]
For students starting the new school year with a new tablet device or mobile phone here’s one piece of solid advice…make sure that device has some solid protection….and I’m not just talking about a good internet security App. When I spoke with Les Szabo from Tech21 on this topic and he had some some great advice for ‘covering up’ your new device.[Read More…]
Have you ever noticed that when some people send you an email the message ends with a random letter ‘J’? The good news is that it isn’t a typo…it’s supposed to be a smiley face emoticon, but thanks to a lingering bug in Microsoft’s outlook software the normal sequence of characters used to make a smiley face 😉 is converted[Read More…]
Is your Home Wi-Fi setup slow or unreliable? Many common Wi-Fi issues can be easily fixed, which is why I got Brad Little from Netgear Australia on the phone recently. Brad offers up a few tips to help get the most of your existing Wi-Fi setup ,how to find out if you’re due for an upgrade and understanding the technology[Read More…]
So what if you missed out on Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition. The recent release and subsequent ‘sold out’ status of Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition mini games console may have left plenty of would-be buyers empty handed…but it’s not the only option for classic arcade gameplay. If you’re just after a quick arcade fix head to websites like Free80sArcade.com , classicgamesarcade.com or freearcade.com[Read More…]
