First Firefox phones revealed by Mozilla and Geeksphone
First Firefox phones revealed by Mozilla and Geeksphone
January 24th, 2013
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 a tablet that is actually useful ?
September 17th, 2012
The main problem with a tablet is that they are mainly a glorified media player. Any tablet user after they get over the initial novelty of the thing will admit that you can’t create anything on the things. You always resort to your laptop or PC to create that document or presentation. Well the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is a little bit closer to the ideal. Watch the video and see what you think.
Newstalk podcast on Internet Trolling ( CyberBully)
September 1st, 2012
HP Z210 Workstation when reliable power is required.
August 23rd, 2012
Get the workstation performance and reliability you need without breaking the bank. The surprisingly affordable and expandable HP Z210 CMT Workstation delivers a wide choice of next-generation processor architectures, graphics, storage technologies, and HP Performance Advisor software
HP Workstation Tool-Less Design.
July 15th, 2012
Symantec Endpoint Cloud Protection
September 29th, 2011
Symantec Endpoint on the cloud, this is a great idea. Firstly you always have the latest version of Symantec top class antivirus software and secondly your don’t have to worry about the overhead of the Management Console on a sever or workstation. Imagine you have a server with a third part mission critical system running on it, you don’t have a dedicated IT support engineer. You think about putting the Management Console on the server but the third party support team are against it as it may impact the mission critical software.
Simple use Symantec Endpoint Cloud, no management software. Control it from anywhere.
Drobo Data Storage Array at Purconn IT Services
January 18th, 2011
Presenting the Drobo range of data storage array which is increasingly becomeing the industries choice for “Network Attached Storage”.
Easy to deploy.
Cost affective.
And simple to manage.
For more contact us at tom@purconn.net
Hard Reset of iPhone
January 12th, 2011
You may need to perform a hard reset on your iPhone if it becomes unresponsive or is not behaving as it should.
- Simply hold the Wake/Sleep button and the Home button at the same time for 10 sec.
- You will see the slider bar appear , ignore this.
- When you see the Apple logo you can release the buttons.
- Your phone should start.
Error 1327.Invalid Drive in Windows 7
November 21st, 2010
This is a perplexing error when first encountered. It usually displays during an installation of software, while the software in question checks the drive allocations on the PC it will through this error. “Error 1327.Invalid Drive: *:” where “*” is the drive letter it has an issue with. This error only occurs on PCs that have had the personal folders remapped or changed. For instance if I change the Documents folder of a given user to point to a server location for backup purposes then this drive letter will cause the error.
You need to either remap the location to its original location or change a registry key.
1. Click Start, type regedit and press Enter.
2. Go to the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
And
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
3. Check if the drive letter in question is listed and change it for an available drive letter.
Now try installing the application.
Avast Antivirus now available at Purconn IT Services
November 16th, 2010
You may or may not have heard of Avast Antivirus software or may have used the free reduced features version on your Home PC. Now for the total protection of the Avast rang of business solutions. Purconn IT Services have partnered with Avast to offer our clients an alternative to the slow and cumbersome regular antivirus packages out there.
Some Antivirus software is so heavy on system resources that your PC becomes unusable and you think you would be better off without it. Why not switch to Avast Pro or Avast Internet Security which offer excellent protection from today’s threats without killing your PC.
Icons Disappearing in Windows 7
November 10th, 2010
I have recently come across this issue on two occasions. Both were new installations of Windows 7 Pro and were on corporate networks. Once installed and running for a few weeks I was informed that some icons were disappearing and required to be reconfigured. They were all icons that were added like shortcuts to mapped drives and programs located on servers. After going through the possible causes and trawling the Internet I found this solution which for now seems to work.
Run “regedit”
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer - Change “Max Cached Icons” to 10000 or more. Upper and Lowercase SENSITIVE!
- If it doesn’t exist create it as new “string”
- Reboot
After that
- Go to”
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local“ - Delete IconCache.db
- Reboot again
Microsoft to add Sercurity Essentials to Windows Updates
November 5th, 2010
Microsoft have announced that they will be adding Security Essentials to the Windows Update stream. They have started in the US and hope to roll-out to the rest of the world in the next few months. Since its launch Microsoft Security Essentials has acquired a reputation for being a solid little anti-virus solution, and with the extension of its licensing to include small businesses I’m sure its reputation will only grow.
On-line Backup With Mozy and Purconn IT Services
October 6th, 2010
Purconn IT Services are proud to offer On-Line Backup with the world number one provider of on-line backup. Securely and automatically backup your data to an off site facility and relax in the knowledge that you are protected against disaster or loss of data. We can backup Exchange Servers to protect your e-mails and File servers for your critical data. With a number of restoration options you will be back up and running in the shortest possible time.
Street View for Ireland
October 1st, 2010
At last Ireland gets on StreetView, we all heard of the Google cars traveling around Ireland scaring cows and little old Lady’s when the odd looking vehicles peered over the hedge. Well this is what it was all about, now no more vague directions you can see your journey as you would drive it. This with the introduction of Loc8 numbers there is no excuse for a courier not finding you.
Even if you just want to see if the Hotel you are staying in next weekend is nice or across the road from a landfill site StreetView is perfect.