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Tech Predictions for 2009

This year’s tech predictions for 2009 are here! And what a list of likely things to happen in the next 12 months it will be. There is no telling what will be happening this year, but hopefully most of them … Continue reading

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2008 Predictions: A review of the year

In very late 2007, thetechangel.com released a series of predictions that could have happened in 2008. Here is full review of what was got right, and what (sadly) was wrong.

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iPhone is now available on Pay As You Go

Just received word from the people at Apple that the 3G iPhone is now available in the UK on Pay As You Go. The much talked about phone, iPod and Internet “Communicator” (marking jargon meaning Internet & Email) is available … Continue reading

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Visa gives the humble credit card a touch of the 21st Century

Shopping online for various items, whether it be the weekly shop, buying books, holidays or just ordering up Sky TV in time for Christmas is becoming a fairly regular day-to-day practice. At the heart of this is the payments using … Continue reading

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How to Troubleshoot a Sky+ box & Upgrade the Firmware

Whilst out and about seeing customers last week, one of them asked me why they couldn’t get their Sky+ box to record programs. My immediate thought was that the software was either not the latest version, or it was faulty, and … Continue reading

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The Cloud – Live Mesh Spreads its Wings

Live Mesh, the Cloud based service from Microsoft has unleashed itself for all just about all. The Mesh software can synchronise files and folders to the Cloud and across your other PCs and devices.

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Instant Messenger and the Status Mystery – Solved

Last week a customer got in touch, in a right panic, as Skype was telling them “Busy, do not disturb”. They naturally asked “why is Skype busy, and why is it busy?” (For those of you who already know where … Continue reading

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All is well again!

Hi all, Just to say that this morning my life returned to complete normality as someone at a certain British telephone company pulled out their finger and got my broadband up and running!

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Would you believe it? Even the IT Guy is in trouble now!

Hi everyone, I know its been awfully quiet around here since the start of September. As all customers know I moved home in the middle of last week…but…and this is a big one – I don’t have broadband yet, let … Continue reading

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Word of the Week: VOIP

VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocal is basically a phone call that is made using the Internet rather than the conventional telephone network. A now popular example of VOIP technology is Skype.

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