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The top ten reasons for using online backup

Chris Moody — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 19:36:19 +0000

There are many reasons why online backups are now a much better solution than manual backup procedures using external hard drives and USB memory sticks. Here are the top ten benefits of choosing Online Backup OLB top 10 reasons

If you want to try out our Online Backup solution with a 14 day free trial just give us a call on 07852 159092 or drop us an email at chris@aslcomputerservices.co.uk

Chris
ASL Computer Services

Keeping you 15GB (or 30GB) of OneDrive storage

Chris Moody — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:44:09 +0000

Microsoft are reducing the free storage for long standing OneDrive users from 15GB to 5GB. However it is possible to keep the full 15GB (and the 15Gb Camera Roll bonus) if you take action now.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedrive-free-storage

Backup: My Pictures

Chris Moody — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:38:23 +0000

We all take lots of digital photos, and they mainly end up in the “My Pictures” folder on your laptop or desktop PC. That’s great because you can view them on your PC screen whenever you like. But what happens when your PC hard drive fails? We get lots of calls from customers that have lost years and years worth of photos. Often we can recover some or all of the digital pictures, but it’s a time consuming, and therefore costly, process.

It’s much better to backup your digital photographs automatically. There are a number of cloud storage providers that allow you to automatically backup copies of your photos to their cloud storage for a small charge, or some are even free. This means that it’s not a disaster when your hard drive fails. Take a look at Amazon, Dropbox, Flickr, Google, and Onedrive. My personal favourites at the moment are Google for backing up from my desktop PC and Onedrive for my tablet / smartphone pictures.

So don’t delay, backup your digital photos before your hard drive fails.

It’s easy to setup but if you do need help just give us a call.

Genealogy

Chris Moody — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 08:30:21 +0000

Many people enjoy tracing their family history or family trees, otherwise known as genealogy. Here are some of the best free genealogy applications.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-genealogy-family-tree-software.htm

Photo viewer software

Chris Moody — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:06:30 +0000

Photo viewer software, here are some good applications for viewing your digital photographs. What’s your favourite app for viewing your photos?

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-digital-image-viewer.htm

File copying utilities

Chris Moody — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:56:46 +0000

Which are the best file copying utilities, here are some suggestions? Let us know in the comments which file copying utilities you use.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-file-copy-utility.htm

Audio Editing software

Chris Moody — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:16:55 +0000

Do you want to edit audio files on your PC? Here is a selection of free audio editors for Windows machines

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-audio-editing-software.htm

What software do you use ?

Password Manager software

Chris Moody — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:35:48 +0000

Do you use a “Password Manager” application? It’s a really good idea so you can have strong passwords that are hard to hack. Also a password manager is a simple way to get round key logging viruses, as you can drag and drop your password.

Which password manager do you use, we personally like Keepass?

http://uk.pcmag.com/password-managers-products/39332/guide/the-best-free-password-managers-for-2015

Emails claiming to be from HMRC are a phishing scam

Chris Moody — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:28:22 +0000

We are seeing lots of customers receiving large numbers of phishing emails at present. The emails mainly claim to be from HMRC about a tax refund. Our advice is don’t open these emails and do not follow the link. The scammers are just trying to get you to disclose enough information for them to empty your bank account.

More information about this is below.

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/11/another-day-another-hmrc-tax-phish/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Windows 10 upgrade as an update

Chris Moody — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:30:50 +0000

Check your Windows Update settings if you don’t want Windows 10 installed as an optional (or from January recommended) update to Windows 7 and 8.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/dont-want-windows-10-check-your-windows-update-settings-now.htm