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Installing Ubuntu Linux

Last few days, my desktop suddenly crashed for now reason, I think. After I boot up my pc, everything seems fine but before the “Windows Loading” screen displays, the monitor shows nothing. Blank… As usual, I tried to troubleshoot the desktop from software to hardware. Read the story »

How To Become a PC Technician

So would you like to become a pc or computer technician? The first step to become one is a “will”.

Before anything else, you should be sure that you wanted to be a professional pc technician. Having this mindset will push your career up because everything that you need to learn or know will follow without trying.

Okay, let us say you have this first requirement, so what will be the next? Here are some tips that you may want to incorporate into your future career as a pc technician. Read the story »

Live Rescue CDs

When your laptop computer or PC suddenly crashed and you are unable to turn it ON what would you do? Most non technically inclined people will feel that it is the end and I was surprised that even some PC enthusiast doesn’t have an idea on how to rescue their data.

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Firefox plugin infected with Trojan

A Trojan-infected Vietnamese language pack for the Firefox Web browser was available for download from the open-source Web browser’s official add-on site for months.

Mozilla, which oversees the project, announced the problem on its security blog on Wednesday, saying people should disable the add-on pack for now. Read the story »

Securing you PC from virus

We all know that while PC technology is evolving, threats to our PC are evolving as well. Before, only virus are harming our files, but now, spywares are also getting into a top notch computer threat. At least putting a basic security will save your ass in reformatting your PC from those well known computer virus or spywares. Here are some FREE yet powerful PC protection that you may want to install right now.