Collection of self help knowledge articles
Why doesn’t web mail store messages I’ve sent from my offline mail client (eg. windows live mail, outlook, thunderbird)? A. It is a limitation of the email software we use on our server. But even if it wasn’t, we wouldn’t want to do it. Please see question 2. Why doesn’t IAM let me store all
Are you trying to send instant messages securely? Maybe you aren’t as secure as you think. This scorecard rates popular instant messaging services for how secure they are: https://www.eff.org/pages/secure-messaging-scorecard
Why would you want to have two dropboxes at the same time? One illegitimate reason would be to get more dropbox quota. We do not recommend you do this as this is dishonest – if you need more space please pay for it (or earn it in one of the many legitimate ways Dropbox gives
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)
There are many ways to recover data from dying harddrives. As we try some and are successful in recovering at least some data we’ll document them here. But firstly, what is a dying harddrive? A typical experience of an end user of a dying harddrive is when accessing certain files takes a very long time
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
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