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Online Photo Editing – Picnik

Picnik is a brilliant free online photo editing tool and ideal for all users (from novices to pros).  The website has a wide variety of features which can help you make ‘average’ photos look ‘amazing’.
Free features include rotate, crop, flip, re-size, exposure options (including exposure, contrast, highlight, shadow and brightness adjustments), colour options (including saturation [...]

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Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is a free desktop application for publishing to blogs and will work with almost any blog provider in the world including Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad and more!
It’s a very simple piece of software which enables you to link your blogs to one central point for posting, rather than logging on [...]

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Where do you access Facebook?

Our poll this month was ‘where do you access Facebook?’ Bosses pleased to see that most people are checking their facebook pages at home rather than at work with a staggering 47% just viewing it from home.  Second up was people viewing their pages from both home and work. (Click on the image to enlarge)
21% [...]

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Microsoft SharedView

Microsoft SharedView is one of those quality pieces of free software which is fantastic but not very well-known.  So here’s a bit about it and what it has to offer…
As described on their website…Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, anywhere. [...]

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Generic steps to removing a virus from an infected PC

Ever been infected with a virus but not known what to do?  Well have no fear…PCToolbox is here…with a tutorial to help you remove the virus!

Firstly download the free version of Malwarebytes
Now you need to turn off System Restore. Use the following tutorials to aid you:
For Windows 7
For Vista
For XP
Boot your machine into ‘Safe [...]

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from PCToolbox!
What an eventful year it’s been!…but how much can you remember?
Test your memory of 2009 with the Quiz of 2009 from Guardian.co.uk!
There are endless events to look forward to over 2010 including the Fifa Football World Cup in South Africa and the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver!
And on the IT side [...]

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Poll Review – Do you use iPlayer?

Our most recent poll was ‘Do you use iPlayer?’ 67% voted ‘Yes’, 33% ‘No’ and thankfully there were no votes for ‘What is it?’
However, for those of you who don’t know what BBC iPlayer is read our Brandstar post about BBC iPlayer from back when it was introduced! See ‘BBC iPlayer – catch up on [...]

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Christmas Ideas

It’s the time of year when we’re all trying to get all our Christmas presents for friends and family.  Last year we did our 12 Days of Christmas Shopping and we thought it would be good to remind you of some great places to purchase gifts online!

Apple
123-Reg
Dell
Amazon
AVG
Misco
CD WOW
Dabs
HMV
PC World
The Carphone Warehouse
I Want One Of Those

We [...]

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AVG 9 Comparison

Here is a table comparing the latest AVG packages.  They are all currently available from Brandstar with a 15% Discount!
Free Anti-Virus software doesn’t protect you, your files or your identity while:

Shopping online
Banking online
Chatting to friends
Downloading music, files and films

Feature
AVG Free
AVG Anti-Virus
AVG Internet Security

RRP – 1 Year

Free*
£27.99
£39.99

RRP – 2 Years

Free*

£38.99
£59.99

Anti-Virus – Makes sure you can [...]

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Wild.Mail – Your Personalised Email Address

Take a look at the latest package to be introduced by Wild Hosting!
‘Wild Hosting is pleased to be able to offer Wild.Mail a service where people can have their own domain name and therefore personalised email address without a website.
Why are we excited about offering this service?

More and more people are wanting a unique and [...]

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