Category: Tech

17 March 2018

Quick Assist, Window 10’s Built-in TeamViewer-Like Remote Help Tool

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/intro-to-quick-assist-window-10s-built-in-teamviewer-like-remote-help-tool/ you need to login to your microsoft account, an email address associated with hotmail or outlook.com they probably want to track you, this is the downside. but it’s also the same for teamviewer, teamviewer has a hidden log which tracks the IP addresses of the hosts and destination. they generally used it to deduce if you are using teamviewer for personal or commercial use. […]

11 March 2018

losing your file when you unplug your usb drive from windows

it’s always advisable to select option to remove your external storage devices safely, files went missing after unplugging the external storage abruptly, do happen! recently, i tried to recover a lost word document on an external usb drive, it was not successful even with data recovery software, so i reckon that it is recommended to take precaution by setting up your windows system restore automatically(run […]

10 March 2018

the importance of quantum computing

quantum computing is the age of super computers, imagine computer processing speed like lightning that you have never seen before. i can think of the good side that it will make ransomware obsolete cos’ the time taken to decrypt the files locked on infected computers will be negligent. the downside is that cryptography, the method to lock and protect your files will also become useless. […]

27 February 2018

uncle google is keeping things to himself

i like using google search engine, and i have been using google for many years, mainly to search for things i want to know. however, i realise recently that uncle google is keeping the good stuff to himself. for good or bad, maybe classified information which they deem improper for the public. however, it’s still one of the best and powerful tool on the internet. […]

19 February 2018

AMD vs Intel processors, which will you choose?

in my humble opinion, until AMD chip can work well with Microsoft, Intel is preferred over AMD. do a search on the internet for intel vs AMD, you will know the reasons why Intel is ahead of the processor game. anyway, that’s for comparing processors despite microcontrollers being the future so there is a lot of battle between the two. for now, I will stick […]

21 January 2018

Difference Between Powered & Non-Powered USB Hubs?

Powered Powered, or active, USB hubs use an external power source to bring each hub port to the same energy level as an on-system port. Active USB hubs are usually powered through a wall outlet. While active USB hubs do not need to divide power consumption across all connected devices, the hub still splits data bandwidth across all connected devices. Unpowered Non-powered, or passive, USB […]

2 January 2018

finding out why your windows pc crashed or froze

i used whocrashed, the alternatives are bluescreenview and the windows built-in event viewer should be good enough. the link below explained a bit further on the tools used to debug the fault:   https://www.howtogeek.com/222730/how-to-find-out-why-your-windows-pc-crashed-or-froze/

1 January 2018

The Best Search Engines of 2017

Google Search; Duck Duck Go Search; Bing Search; Dogpile Search; Yippy Search; Google Scholar Search; Webopedia Search; Yahoo! Search; The Internet Archive Search https://www.lifewire.com/best-search-engines-2483352