by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
There’s nothing like a fresh install of Windows to clear your mind, but it comes at a cost: you have to set everything up again, just the way you like it. Here’s how to reinstall Windows, migrate your important settings, and leave the clutter behind. You...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 14, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the breaker-breaker dept. After disasters (or to minimize expensive data use generally, and take advantage of available Wi-Fi), bypassing the cell network is useful. But it’s not something that handset makers bake into their phones. colinneagle writes with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
Ekahau offers most comprehensive set of Wi-Fi site survey features in three-product test Network World – In the early days of Wi-Fi, site surveys were fairly basic and involved running around with a laptop looking at simple signal levels. The next step was...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 9, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Imagine this: you’re busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data, and…nothing happens. Your hard drive isn’t working. Uh oh. Before you panic, there are...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
Payment Card Information can be held in the cloud, and this 50-plus page guideline tells you how Can you hold Payment Card Information (PCI) data in a cloud-based service? Yes, but doing so isn’t straightforward, so the PCI Security Standards Council has...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the tiny-penguins-with-hats dept. Barebones mini PCs have been around for a while, and the latest one from Zotac is pretty unique. For $270, the Zbox ID42 offers a Sandy Bridge CPU, a discrete GeForce graphics processor, and all the integrated I/O and networking...
