What Printer To Buy
Here at DialaGeek we've noticed the thing that causes the most stress after email problems are printer issues. The way it goes is the one time you want it to work, before the meeting or printing the boarding cards for the flight in the morning it stops working. You change the yellow cartridge as it reports as low and still no joy, you kick it, you swear at it and still no joy, turn it off and on a few times, restart your laptop Still it refuses to to do the thing it's named after and ...
5 Top Tips For Staying Secure Online
Staying Secure Online I've written few articles about simple things you can do to lessen you chances of getting your computer or online accounts hacked. When I say lessen your chances it's about the size of it really, low hanging fruit is what gets taken first. Here's five simple things you can do to increase your security 1. Use a strong passwords and do not reuse them for other websites A strong password contains a mix of letter and numbers, upper and lower case, no single dictionary words then add in special characters. Groan.. how are you supposed to remember that... read ...
Add A Printer Via TCPIP Direct Printing Windows 7
Just had an issue with Windows 7 and the way it automatically adds printers. By default when you add a printer via the Add Network Printer dialogue, printers are added via WSD (web services for devices). This is fine for some printers, but the Lexmark network printer C543dn would crash the spooler service constantly. This is really annoying and results in all your installed printers not showing up after the second time ir crashes. To remedy this you can set the print spooler service to restart itself constantly, but it will still have times it's not available, The other way is to ...
Data Protection And Cloud Computing
Had an interesting conversation with Anthony Clark from F-Works with regards to a using a Cloud storage service and Data Protection. According to the Information Comissioners Dept In order to comply with the data protection act, any US based storage provider needs to have joined the Safe Harbour scheme. Here's the document that states this The storage provider in question was US based Syncplicity I'd looked at their credentials and they have put a lot of effort ...
Accidentally Putting An SD Card in the DVD Slot iMac
Had a call about this recently and I think it's really a design fault by Apple. On the newer iMacs they have and an SD card slot on the side, right below the DVD drive slot So it's quite easy if you're not looking to put an SD card into the DVD drive And depending how far it has gone in it's not that easy to remove it. The picture above shows the inside of the Superdrive (we stripped down an old G5 superdrive to demonstrate) It might be possible to get the card out using a piece ...
