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MacBook Pro is the first Apple laptop Consumer Reports won't recommend

Many news sites have reported recently that the new MacBook Pro is the first Apple laptop that Consumer Reports won't recommend. In this case, the issue was poor battery life. To add insult to [...] Read more

Fire caused by computer on bean bag

Fire investigators have determined that a recent (12/15/16) fire at Castleton University was caused by a laptop being left on a bean bag, and overheating. It's important to remember that your [...] Read more

Time to migrate off Yahoo

In light of yet another report of a massive data breech at Yahoo, this time with the personal information of a staggering 1 billion user accounts stolen, it's become clear that Yahoo is no longer a [...] Read more

Consider repairability/upgradeability before purchase

It is an unfortunate trend with modern electronics to move towards less ability to repair and/or upgrade, forcing the user into a shorter lifespan and upgrade cycle. While this is great for the [...] Read more

Nearly half of all websites pose security risks

Disturbing news from an article posted today: "According to a new study of the top one million domains, 46 percent are running vulnerable software, are known phishing sites, or have had a security [...] Read more

Malware plague continues

I just wanted to put out another reminder about how bad the malware (viruses, trojans, etc) plague continues to be, for both Windows and Mac users. First is a report outlining that bugs in the Adobe [...] Read more

2yo Chome bug puts Windows users at risk of scam

It's being reported at betanews as well as other sites that a bug in Chrome that was discovered and reported to Google 2 years ago is now being actively exploited by a malcious website to infect [...] Read more

Create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive

With Windows 10, unfortunately Microsoft did away with many methods that us technicians would use to repair a corrupted or otherwise non-booting Windows computer. Instead, Microsoft has come up with [...] Read more

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