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Entries for July, 2009

Passwords – How to make your password strong and easy to remember!

Below is a 6 step method to creating a strong, good quality, easy to remember password!  Our method is easy to remember, just think the ‘S and 5 C’s’ method!

Sentence – Think of a personal sentence of phrase that you find really easy to remember, e.g. I have three pet rabbits and two budgerigars.  This [...]

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Passwords – What makes a good password?

Over the next few weeks we’re doing a series on passwords!  It is always important to have a good password.  Having a strong password makes it even harder for any hacker to get into your private accounts and information, etc.
Here are some good ways to ensure you have a good quality password:

Length – It is [...]

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Antivirus Comparison – The Final Ratings and Rankings

We’ve now come to the end of our Antivirus Comparison Series.  To finish everything off we’re going to give each software a rating and a rank….

Software
Rating
Rank

6

7

3

4

2

5

1

From all our investigations over the past few weeks we can conclude in our opinion AVG Internet Security is the best software around!  We were really pleased and excited to [...]

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Antivirus Comparison – Summary Table

Over the past month we have been comparing antivirus software.  Below is a table which summaries our findings!  We’ve put all the results into percentages to make everything fair!

Alternative Software %

AVG % in Comparison

64%
86%

63%
88%

75%
94%

69%
88%

77%
82%

67%
90%

As you can see from the table, AVG is by far the superior antivirus software when compared to the others.  Throughout [...]

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Google Chrome OS – Yikes!

Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system.
Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost netbooks, but will eventually be used on PC’s as well.
Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by middle 2010.
“Speed, simplicity and [...]

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Poll Review – MSN or Facebook Chat…Which do you use?

As you can see from the pie chart above Facebook chat is more popular with our readers than MSN.  Is this a sign that MSN is on its last legs and will soon be unused by many?
Don’t forget to vote on this months poll…’How many computers are in your house/office?’

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