Removing Malicious Processes From the Computer System
Most antivirus and antimalware applications help in removing malicious processes once detected. These have the ability to recognize harmful processes. In some circumstances some processes need to be removed before they are scanned. This usually happens when one needs to delete malware manually or when malware processes hamper removers from functioning or updating their database.
What IT Insiders Expect This Year
Five hundred IT professionals were surveyed about what they expect for the future of their industry. They were asked questions such as why they like their jobs, what they’re trying to accomplish in their IT roles, and how they feel about job security and the development of new types of positions. The following infographic breaks down their responses and reveals their predictions for the 2012 work environment.
How to Compress Images Without Affecting Quality
If you have your own blog, then you probably have run into the issue of having images that are too large in file size. Such images unnecessarily waste a lot of bandwidth, which can cost you a lot of money if you are running your own blogging platform such as Wordpress.org on a paid web hosting plan.
Top Tech Trends of 2011 [Infographic]
The year 2011 brought many changes to the tech industry. Such tech trends as group buying, geolocation apps, or tablets revolutionized the whole industry. Other major tech trends include cloud computing and cloud based productivity apps, online video in enterprise, online Q&A, crowdfunding, and mobile photo sharing apps.
Top Six Antivirus Tips – Points You Must Consider Before Selecting Antivirus
Everyone is cautious about viruses especially when you are connected to the Internet. The Internet is considered a reliable source of education, fun and many other aspects, but at the same time it is considered highly unsecure too. This is because of the criminal activities that are continuously producing threats for the people and computer systems. The bigger threats people face and most of the computer system malfunctions are due to viruses.
5 Weird Smartphone Apps
If you are one of the millions of people around the world who owns a smartphone, then you know precisely how life-enhancing it can be. Before phones were for calling and texting. Now, they serve as mini personal assistants. They entertain us, they keep us organized, and they help us do everything from finding directions to giving us detailed weather reports. But in this heavenly cloud of convenience, smart phones are also purveyors of junk and wasters of time. Here are a few of the most useless and strange smartphone apps on the market today. 1. iSteam This may entertain a four-year-old, but it is highly unlikely that your small…
Easy Tech Support – Part 5: Finding Information
In this fifth and final part of the easy tech support series, the folks from Google focus on ways to find information on… you guessed it… Google. It may seem like a lot of self-advertising, but they present us with lots of different useful Google services that show up in specific Google searches.
Easy Tech Support – Part 4: Media
Various Google services are introduced, which can be used for digital media managing and sharing. For example Google Docs can be used to share large media files such as photos and videos to a group of friends or family. YouTube is another alternative for videos and Picasa is for photos.
Easy Tech Support – Part 3: Communication
In this post, most of the videos are centered around Google's email service, Gmail. However, most email services work in a similar way, so the videos would still be helpful for non-gmail users. For example, if you know someone that might be vulnerable to phishing scams, send them the video titled: "How to know if an email is real".
What to do when your WordPress update failed [Tutorial]
Yesterday when I was updating one of my WordPress blogs the automatic update failed and was stuck in maintenance mode. What to do when this happens? First of all, don’t panic! Your blog is not lost for ever, or anything like that. Even if you haven’t backed up your blog’s files and its database (like recommended by WordPress), it is still possible to fix the update fail issue in a few easy steps. Of course if you had backed up your files and database then you could simply restore them and try an automatic update again. In fact some web hosts will regularly backup everything for you. They also have…
