FAQ: How to remove a debit or credit card from your iTunes account. A common scenario may be that you wish to allow kids to download free apps on an iPod or iPad but want to lock up “in-app purchases” or prevent “paid for” apps from being downloaded. Here are …
End of the line for traditional telephones?
A Quick Guide To VoIP Telephones VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is not a new technology. In fact it has been around since the 1970’s. However a growing number of business’s have cut costs by switching from a traditional land-line telephone system over to VoIP. An increasing number of home …
Email Phishing Scams
Scam Alert Over the past few weeks we have seen an increase in the number of people reporting to have been locked out of their email and falling victim to fraudulent organisations claiming to unlock their email for a fee. This is a typical “phishing scam” but cyber criminals appear …
Support: How To Create W8 Recovery Drive
How To Create A Recovery Drive For Windows 8.1 Tutorial Level: Easy If you have a Windows 8 / 8.1 laptop, it is worth creating a system recovery drive to keep safe in case your system ever fails. All you will need is a spare USB pen drive. Windows will …
Support: How To Password Protect A USB Drive
FAQ: How can I protect the data on a USB stick? Support Tutorial Level – Basic Misplacing or losing a USB memory stick isn’t the end of the world, but if there is personal or sensitive information on the drive then that can obviously be a real concern. On this …
Upgrade Your Computer With An SSD
SSD’s (Solid State Drives) have come right down in price over the last couple of years. More and more of our customers are opting to have these installed in new build PC’s. Furthermore I am seeing an increased amount of laptop upgrades with customers opting to go to SSD rather than …
Support: Office 2013 – Download the ISO
This post is to advise that if you purchase Microsoft Office 2013, which is available from Microsoft Store, when downloading the install files to also download the “Backup to Disc” file. I have had one or two cases of customers having to purchase Office again after failing to download a backup …
Support: Create Address Labels Using Mail Merge
Support Tutorial: Tutorial Level Intermediate It’s that time of year again when many of you are preparing to print out your address labels for Christmas cards. At Computroon we stock various Avery sized labels. If you have never used the “Mail Merge” database feed built into your Office suite then …
Smallworld – Virgin – What To Do With Your Old Router
During the last couple of weeks I have been asked on a few occasions if the old wireless routers that you were using on Smallworld are of any use and what to do with them. The answer depends on which wireless router you were using and how old it is. …
Support: Extend My Laptop’s Battery Life
Here are a few basic tips to maintaining the lifespan of your laptop battery and maximising usage when it is required. If your laptop is a few years old and the battery has not been maintained, there may be no way to revive it. Maintain Lifespan If you mostly use …