After much conjecture among the DCT team, Microsoft has finally confirmed how the Windows 10 activation process works for upgraded systems. Turns out, it is pretty much as we suspected. Windows 10 Activation – What has Changed Unless you purchase Windows 10, or a new […]
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Originally written May 24 2015 My nephew recently graduated from High School which meant a lot of pictures taken. Unfortunately the camera malfunctioned during the graduation ceremony and it seemed to have deleted all of the photos on the camera. His mother was devastated. She
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Rant of The Day Windows has dressed up some of its long standing applications and as you might expect they have created something that tried to please everyone. I don’t know if this technique ever works, I believe that in many cases, it is better
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One of the products announced at Apple’s Special Event on September 9th was the next generation Apple TV. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, “the future of television is apps.” And, sure enough, the 4th-generation Apple TV will have an App Store. A redesigned remote
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For those who may not be aware; Microsoft’s “Insider” program is a means of testing new features and settings prior to mass deployment, similar to the way in which beta software operates. Microsoft regularly provides the latest Windows 10 builds to those who have signed
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Apple released its first major update to its watch OS on September 21st, watchOS 2. This is five days later than its original launch date but was delayed due to bug fixing taking longer than expected. While five days isn’t a long time, it seemed that
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Digiarty is currently running a promotion in conjunction with two of its partners involving a giveaway of three software titles for Mac… expires 30th September *NOTE: All three giveaways require that you provide an email address and each is limited to a specific number of
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Price Break on Amazon Prime The Amazon hits just keep on coming. As a fan and member of Amazon Prime, which mainly offers you free shipping for many products in their online store, but which is also getting beefier thanks to Amazon’s keen desire to
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Play the game! I recently installed Windows 10 on a new 250Gb SSD and naturally enough was keen to start gaming right away, but with Steam installed on another hard drive, what’s the best route to take? In the past with new installs I’ve
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A woman recently brought me her Windows 8 laptop because of a virus popping up on her system. It was a virus that seems to infect the Chrome browser the most, where the browser freezes with a pop-up window claiming there is an infection along
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There’s a little firestorm brewing in the Apple mobile universe and suffice to say, THEY started it. Although web browser plugins like Adblock Plus have been available to computer users for some time, Apple’s new iOS 9 allows for developers to create ad-blocking apps for
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One thing I have learned is that, even though I’m a tech, I don’t know everything. Yes, I admit it. That’s why I married a very smart woman who will every so often teach me something I did not know. Saying that, my wife has
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Programs such as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware free are all well and good for cleaning malware infections provided you can access and use the operating system, but what about a machine which is so heavily infected the operating system won’t load or, if it does, is not
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The Apple community has long bragged about how it is seemingly immune to hackers. Not so anymore. Hundreds of apps are plagued with a serious security flaw. The hackers duped Chinese developers into using a counterfeit version of Xcode, Apple’s official development tool. WeChat, a
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