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If you are not a technical person, where do you start in terms of things you should know about computers? Well one place to look is this article: 100 Technical Things non-technical people can learn to make their lives easier I hope it is helpful for you. If there is anything else you need to
If you ask at any computer shop in this country they will happily fill your computer with a collection of illegal software that you “need”. But not even the version of Windows (usually Windows ultimate edition, but in the rest of the world probably less than 5% use the ultimate edition as it is unnecessary)
If you are looking for a good free antivirus/antimalware product for your personally owned computer, Avast is an excellent choice. Avast now offer Avast Business free which is a centrally managed tool and is useful for organisations – this is part of IAM’s standard operating environment and is used on all IAM owned computers. Many people
If you know of other good language learning tools we can add to this page please let us know. Anki (http://ankisrs.net/) Anki is an open source tool that replaces those old paper flashcards. You can build your own offline sets of flash cards, but if you’d like to connect your Anki learning across
In the 80s or 90s there was a movie called Sneakers where someone invented the ultimate password cracking machine and the secret code to make it work was “too many secrets”. There are however people who try to crack passwords and therefore we should make them longer and harder, but if we do that how
So you need a new computer? If it is going to be owned by IAM you need IAMtech’s help to purchase it for you – you should not do it on your own unless we authorise you to do so. If it is going to be owned by you personally then we can help you
Download problems? One of the problems faced when using the internet in a place like Afghanistan is that it is slow (and therefore downloads take a long while) and it is unreliable (and therefore your download is likely to be interrupted before it finishes). This can be quite annoying. Particularly because the built in downloading
This article is intended to be added to as people within IAM find new ways of collaborating. If you have an idea you want to have added to this article please write to us at it@iam-afghanistan.org and mention you want to add it to our article on online collaboration. Shared Tasklists Maybe you need a
Shopkeepers here will often tell you that they are selling you a computer with genuine Windows, but are they? Why is it important? Original factory installed Windows is not theft. Illegal copies of Windows are theft. A factory original installation of Windows will come with all the driver files needed to make your computer
One way to do this is to get IAMtech to buy it for you. If the computer is to be owned by IAM then you must get us to do it for you (please see I need a new computer). But what if you want to buy a personal computer for yourself? How do you
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