It is surprising how fast your mobile phone, tablet or laptop can move. For hours your devices may stay still on your desk but put them down in a town coffee shop and they can disappear in moments. Crime statistics show that a UK laptop wanders off every minute each day taking with them treasured
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Can you spare a cycle? Your computer has a feature which, perhaps, no-one has told you about. This is a special, never-ending task that tells your computer to do… well, nothing actually. That’s right, it twiddles its digital thumbs in between the times of being busy with its other, useful tasks. This idle task runs
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It seems impossible to read a newspaper without coming across another company suffering a cyber attack. From Sony’s embarrassment last year through to the breaking news of huge sums lost by banks in specialised attacks, the message is that online crime is here to stay. What can we do about it? The good news is
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Computers are remarkable machines. With loud threats of speed from their gigahertz and gigabytes, you might expect them to whizz along with us barely able to keep up. So why is it that often they limp along while you twiddle your thumbs waiting for something… anything… to happen? If this is exercising your temper, here
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Several years ago, a friend and his wife were shopping on a high street. She was at a cashpoint across the street with his bank card and had forgotten his PIN number. Without a pause, he shouted the number to her from amongst a crowd of bystanders. I agree that my friend is a little
Passwords: The Modern Scourge
How much easier would your life be if you did not have to use any passwords? Just imagine… No more teeth-sucking moments when asked for yet another unique new password or time wasted searching for lost passwords that you used to know. While you cannot do away with them yet, if you find that you