I am not much of a TV addict to be honest, mainly as I am always out! But I do like to watch Top Gear when it is on. I was watching it on You Tube until the BBC put a stop to that. However I recently came across BBC’s iPlayer! I knew [...]

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The latest addition to the Brandstar Computer list is a Dell XPS M1330 Crimson Red laptop, 13.3″ screen, 2GHz Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB memory, 160GB hard drive, 2.0 Mega pixel Camera, DVDRW, bluetooth, wireless, Vista Home Premium etc. I didn’t see a real need for the Biometric Fingerprint Reader…
When ordering I opted [...]

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For those that live in the Brandstar area you will know that we had a pretty impressive thunderstorm last week!
I always know that once the thunderstorm is over I will be getting calls from people saying something along the lines of “I can’t get on the internet” or “My computer won’t turn on”. The most [...]

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This is a popular question at the moment, should I upgrade to Office 2007?
The first question you really need to answer for yourself is: Will my system cope? Firstly take a look at the Offical Microsoft Office system requirements. I have to add that I was surprised when I say these official requirements because I [...]

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During my review of my Dell Vostro machine I started to head into a Windows Vista rant! So I thought instead I would have a dedicated thread in which to rant about it! Although unlike many people ranting about the terribleness of Vista I am actually very impressed with the latest desktop operating system from [...]

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For years I have built PC’s for myself or for customers from scratch, choosing the components carefully based on specification, experience and reviews. However over the last 18 months I have found it far better and cheaper to build a Dell system specification online and order it from there!
After ordering a number of machines for [...]

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Those of you that follow the blog here at Brandstar will notice a significant change in the old blog and this nice shiney new one! With the introduction of Office 2007 we have been playing with the ability to blog straight from Microsoft Word! This is very useful and as Word links [...]

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From time to time I get emails warning me about a virus email that is going around. These emails generally state that the emails came from one of the big Anti-Virus companies like Symantec (usually referred to as Norton) or McAfee.
Something to remember when you get these emails
Antivirus companies don’t release warning emails - When [...]

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As you can imagine at Brandstar we spend a lot of time on the internet and we come across some..”interesting” sites!  This site called Will it Blend .com that I came across today has a very interesting video on it of a iPhone being put in a blender!  So I just had to share the [...]

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The “new” version of Outlook Express in Microsoft’s latest operating systems Windows Vista renamed Windows Mail is a fantastic development from Outlook Express. However we have had a few clients coming to us with a problem and so I thought it only fair to share the solution.
Firstly the problem:

You have an email in your [...]

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