Mozilla (makers of Firefox) have released a couple of updates for Firefox v3. The updates are security related and are both flagged a critical. (more…)

Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.

It’s the last Sunday of March tomorrow and that means that British Summer Time (BST) begins tomorrow. This means your clocks should go forward an hour, meaning you loose an hour’s sleep if you feel like it. (more…)

It’s another week and another Friday. Don’t feel bad that 5 o’clock can’t come sooner, help waste one minute and 56 seconds with this video.
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Breaking news this lunchtime that IT professionals is Australia have learnt of a new botnet that is capable of controlling routers and broadband modems. (more…)

A second software update has been released for Live Mesh as of 24th March 2009. The update contains numerous bug fixes and new features. (more…)

‘Enter’ key: The Enter key is found on the right-hand side of the keyboard. In most cases the key has the text written on it – either ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ and then an arrow that starts on the right, goes downwards slightly and the veers off to the left. On some other machines there is no text, just the arrow.

More info on the Enter key can be found here.

A few weeks back I had the most irritating issue on my PC (yes thetechangel.com does have technical problems too!). (more…)

This week a customer posted into the intray a good joke, {insert usual reminder to share jokes here}, but in their email they also said: (more…)

One of the most misinterpreted functions of the keyboard that I come across on a day-to-day basis is the difference between the ‘return’ key and the ‘enter’ key. (more…)