What is it and what happens Dial-up is an internet service that connects your PC through your phone line. Unlike DSL, dial-up is not broadband. Dial-up is available in many areas including places with a low population, because it simply runs through your personal phone line. A device connects to the internet through a dial-up…
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How To Tell When Your Hard Drive Is Failing
There are many different symptoms of a failing hard drive, such as awkward noises, or even blue screening, or your computer might not even run the operating system. All hard drives are destined to fail eventually, so it’s best to be prepared. How do hard drives fail? Hard drives fail in many different ways, such…
What is malware?
A malware is a program that tells your computer to do something you dont want it to do. A virus or any other malware can be very hard to detect or not very hard to detect. No matter what the circumstances all malware make your computer run less efficient in one way or another. A…
How might a backup for your data be useful?
A backup for your files might be useful in the event of your data being corrupted, damaged or deleted during a catastrophe. Having a good backup plan means less work of recovering the data you lost, or simply keeping you from losing data at all. You can backup your data in many different ways to…
Why You Don’t Need To Panic Over The Flame Virus
It seems like once a year, a computer virus, hacker group, or glitch starts making headlines. Ever since we came out of the digital revolution in one piece, there’s been a percentage of the population that exaggerates every electronic menace to unrealistic proportions. First it was Y2K, then it was identity theft, and this year…
Cold Snap Technology Moves to Eveleth
Cold Snap Technology has been around, in one form or another, for the past ten years, with roots in Aurora, Biwabik and Embarrass, MN, currently located in Eveleth, MN providing a variety of computer services from pc repair to website design. Edward Addy started Northern Visual Services in 2002, with his wife Rebecca Addy. The…