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Safely Disposing of Old Hard Drives: Protecting Your Data and the Environment

Cyber Security, General, How To, IT Support, Technology / By Ben

As technology evolves, we find ourselves upgrading our gadgets and devices more frequently. Whether it’s a new laptop, smartphone, or external hard drive, the old ones often end up collecting dust in a drawer. But what about the sensitive data stored on those old hard drives? How can we ensure that our personal information doesn’t […]

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Spring Cleaning

General, How To, IT Support, Technology Solutions / By Martin

Spring cleaning is not only for your home, but also for your computer. A cluttered and dusty computer can affect its performance, security and lifespan. Here are some tips on how to clean up your computer and make it run faster and smoother. Delete unnecessary files and programs. Over time, your computer accumulates a lot

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The importance of a reboot!

General, How To, IT Support, Technology Solutions / By Martin

The other day we were asked to diagnose a fault with an application that wasn’t coming up with the correct text and boxes on it. In this instance it was a VoIP app on a PC. One of our engineers had suggested the importance of a reboot and it turned out that it wasn’t done

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Life through Google Lens… but we start with IT support

General, How To, IT Support, Technology, Technology Solutions / By Ben

When we are not supplying IT support for our clients, one of the things we often do here at Octagon is just explore technology. We like to understand – not only the core products we support but also – you never know when keeping up with the latest tech will help us solve your problem!

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BMW Head Unit Update

How To, Technology / By Michael

I’ve had the itch for a sportier car for a while and after some looking around and research on model in my price range; I settled for a BMW M135i, something modern enough for my technology centric personality, but simple enough for me to get my hands dirty maintaining and modifying it. BMW’s are easy

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It’s your business! – Do you know the state of your cyber security?

Cyber Security, How To, IT Support, Privacy / By The Octagon Team

Building a business requires commitment and determination. It’s a hard work! You start each day with a schedule for delivering your products or services, acquiring new customers and retaining the existing ones because your business needs to prosper. It’s a sure thing! Cash is king and so is data! No business can prosper on air

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Let’s play

Cyber Security, General, How To, IT Support / By The Octagon Team

Jack Welsch once said: “Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the bast people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It’s that simple.” I agree, it may be simple but only if we invest our time and effort in gathering new knowledge, sharing information and upgrading

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Are you annoyed about shopping coupons in Edge? Then turn them off!

How To / By Clive

With Christmas round the corner I have been spending time on various shopping sites, where Edge was constantly suggesting useless discount coupons to me. Worse then that, poor coding meant that the pop-up box suggesting coupons would often appear blank, just obscuring the web page I was wanting to read. How to disable Microsoft Edge

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