iPhone’s Confession app

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Tuesday 8 February 2011 7:03 pm

The United States Catholic church has recently approved an iPhone app used by members to prepare for confession. Titled “Confession: A Roman Catholic App“, it is intended to make the confession process smoother by giving a step-by-step guide to the Rite of Penance. After creating a profile users are presented with a series of questions [...]

Updates for Windows, IE

Posted by Alex | Security Alerts,Tech News | Tuesday 8 February 2011 6:39 pm

Microsoft has issued three security bulletins under the ‘critical’ label. These critical updates are included in a patch along with nine other alerts rated as “important”.

Many Bittorrent websites down

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Monday 18 October 2010 6:38 pm

A disgruntled ex-employee of the popular “Reality Check Network” managed to bring down several servers today that just so happen to be the hosts to dozens of popular Bittorrent websites, including ThePirateBay.

5 Questions and Answers about Facebook Groups

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Sunday 10 October 2010 7:53 am

Yahoo! News writer Ben Patterson recently released a great article addressing the latest updates to Facebook, particularly Facebook Groups. Facebook has relaunched it’s Groups in an effort to streamline them and make them easier to access both publicly and privately.

Gmail offline bug in Chrome

Posted by Alex | Other,Tech News | Monday 8 March 2010 10:12 pm

If you’ve been having problems with Gmail crashing Google Chrome in offline mode, don’t feel alone. As of Thursday an update to all development versions of the browser cause Chrome to crash as soon as you log in to Gmail, if configured for offline use. Until an update is released to fix this bug you [...]

Google Unveils Chrome OS

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Friday 20 November 2009 5:58 am

It’s hard to believe it has been almost a year since Google launched it’s much-anticipated web browser, Google Chrome. With an estimated 35 million users already making it their browser of choice, it’s not hard to understand why Google wants to capitalize on that and has now announced their own Operating System, Chrome OS. Chrome [...]

Apple Releases Safari 4.0.4

Posted by Alex | Security Alerts,Tech News | Thursday 12 November 2009 7:33 pm

Apple has released Safari 4.0.4 to address multiple vulnerabilities in a number of components. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, conduct cross-site request forgery, or obtain sensitiveinformation. These vulnerabilities affect Safari running on both the Mac OS X and Windows platforms.AlexPC encourages users and administrators [...]

Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Wednesday 11 November 2009 7:28 pm

There is no denying the fact that Apple’s iPhone has changed the game when it comes to touch-screen phones. It’s become the standard for competing companies to compare themselves to. Lately though you may have noticed competitors finally speaking out and putting up a fight against the iPhone. Commercials such as “iDont” and “There’s a [...]

Verizon doubling early termination fees

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Wednesday 4 November 2009 6:53 pm

It’s called lock-in, folks: The tactic that works by ensuring that once you sign on with a product or a company, you have virtually no way to escape. You’re stuck for life. Apple does this with the iPod by locking iTunes to its music player. Online e-mail providers do this regularly by making it impossible [...]

What is Google Wave?

Posted by Alex | Tech News | Monday 2 November 2009 1:55 pm

Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files. Google Wave has a lot [...]

What is the best Virus protection?

Posted by Alex | Tech News,Virus Alerts | Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:37 am

After almost 15 years of installing and using over 30 different brands of virus scanners that have become popular, I have finally found the diamond in the rough. I have been using ESET Nod32 Antivirus for the past 365 days and highly recommend it to anyone. ESET NOD32 outperforms all other virus scanners on the [...]

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