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06/05/2016

More than 270 million email account details are being sold on Russia’s black market following a huge hack, with 24 million belonging to Gmail, 33 million to Hotmail and 40 million to Yahoo Mail users. With no way of knowing whether your email address has been affected, we advise you to change your password now to avoid security implications (it's a good idea to routinely do so in any case).

05/05/2016

Shortcut tip: When clicking the back button in your web browser, and you want to click back a few websites or so, right click on the back button. A list of web pages you previously visit will appear, scroll down to your preferred web page and left click.

21/03/2016

If anyone wants to find out their product key and does not have it to hand or is unable to find it on their computer then open note pad and copy and paste this code:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput
End Function

Save it as .vbs to desktop and then click on it.

17/03/2016

Remember People. Back Up! Back Up! Back Up! Whatever important documents and photos you want to keep please back it up, because once that Hard Drive goes you've had your lot, and would cost an arm and a leg to pay professional services to recover your lost data and photos. Back up on to memory stick will be the quickest and easiest option; you can just plug in a memory stick and drag and drop there, and save you time compared to saving it to disc.

05/02/2016

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Antivirus software and email scanners aren’t perfect, so here’s a way to quickly check for sure whether a file contains a virus or is safe to use. Just simply upload a file or type in a web address to be sure that it'll be safe to use, it will scan it using many and well known AV programs

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