Adults in the U.S. on average spend a whopping 10 hours per day staring at a screen. Therefore, it is important to have your computer monitors placed in a way that reduces strain on your eyes, posture, and neck. So, where is that, you ask? Well, check out these tips: Screen height When it comes […]
The newest version of Windows 10, 1903, is on its way this month. The May update will add some highly requested features that have been in previous versions of Windows. One feature going all the way back to Windows 98 era. These new features aim to allow the user to customize their individual Windows user […]
Adobe is finally planning to kill off Flash once and for all. Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari have all been blocking Flash over a year. Adobe is now planning to remove support for it fully by the end of 2020. “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and […]
Chrome 74 Last week Google released Chrome 74, but you might have to wait for two of its most intriguing features—dark mode and improvements to incognito mode. Dark Mode Dark Mode for Chrome, which arrived on macOS last month, looks almost identical to Chrome’s incognito mode, but with all dialog boxes and menus also dimmed. […]
Collection #1 Security researcher Troy Hunt recently discovered and revealed what is perhaps the largest cache of stolen emails and passwords in hacking history. Bundled together in a collection ominously called “Collection #1” are some 773 million emails, 21 million passwords, and over one billion unique combinations of the two, an 87 GB package of […]
Frankenstein Computers has been at our North Austin location on Lamar Boulevard for over 8 years! We can work on over 50 computers at the same time which means we can get your computer back to you even faster, especially during busy times. Now when you drop your computer off at Frankenstein Computers you can […]
Challenges of staying updated… In today’s market we find ourselves deep within a growing technical industry which is growing and expanding faster than businesses can keep up. The greatest challenge is keeping current, replacing old equipment and upgrading to newer software which requires learning new applications. There are additional cost hurdles, among many other potentially […]
Not that we condone pirating copyrighted material, but if you do, read on. Pirated versions of Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Arrow are among the most popular TV shows. Hackers use these as bait to secretly install malware on people’s computers. On Monday, April 1st (no joke!) security firm Kaspersky Lab ranked the […]
Microsoft restarted the automatic distribution of Windows 10 October 2018 Update… This upgrade was plagued with problems and pulled from release just days after its initial debut. “We are now starting our phased rollout to users via Windows Update, initially offering the update to devices we believe will have the best update experience based on […]
