External hard drives are a great way to expand your computer’s storage capabilities, are easy to use and quite inexpensive…but what do you do when one suddenly stops working. Your first thought may be that you’ve suddenly lost every file on the drive…but that may not necessarily be the case. It may simply be that the external casing around the[Read More…]
If at the start of the school year you bought your child a new computer for school now’s the time to double check the status of the internet security software on it. Tim Falinski from Trend Micro Australia says that many new PCs only come with time limited trial software. I recently spoke with Tim Falinski from Trend Micro Australia[Read More…]
If you’ve ever connected a USB cable to your mobile device then you’ll know that each time you do it you have a 50 percent chance of trying to put it in the wrong way…because they only go in one way. While this problem has been solved with the new USB C standard…that’s not going to help you with[Read More…]
Everyone loves a refund, especially if a company you deal with reports that you have been overcharged, but in this instance is a phishing scam that’s designed to steal your personal and financial information to take even more of your hard earned cash. The image below is a screen grab from an email that looks like it’s from Telstra but[Read More…]
The Internet is full of online scams but how can you be sure of what is real and what is fake? Well I find the following rule can be applied to just about everything – If it sounds too good to be true…then it probably is. Think about the email informing you that you’ve won 2 million dollars in a[Read More…]
