Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Hello All, I wanted to alert you to a FREE educational seminar (supported by LloydsTSB) to help educate people looking to invest in a franchise business in the UK. Choosing which franchise business model to invest in for your future is one of the biggest decisions you will make. These FREE educational franchise seminars provide impartial guidance and advice to help you make the right decision. Entitled "How to evaluate a good franchise" the two hour evening franchise seminar programme covers all the steps you need to consider when choosing which franchise to... Continue reading

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Hello All, PC PAL Franchise Open Day - Friday 30th September 2011 I wanted to personally invite you to our latest Open Day at our new offices (which are a short 10 minute walk from the Birmingham NEC). You may be thinking of visiting the NEC this Friday and Saturday for the National Franchise Show and we thought you might be interested in dropping by our offices and meeting our team? By visiting us on our Open Day, it will enable you to: properly understand the PC PAL Franchise Investment Opportunity and how... Continue reading

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Hello All, PC PAL Franchise Open Day - Friday 30th September 2011 I wanted to personally invite you to our latest Open Day at our new offices (which are a short 10 minute walk from the Birmingham NEC). You may be thinking of visiting the NEC this Friday and Saturday for the National Franchise Show and we thought you might be interested in dropping by our offices and meeting our team? By visiting us on our Open Day, it will enable you to: properly understand the PC PAL Franchise Investment Opportunity and how... Continue reading

This year the NEC Franchise Show will be held on Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st October. PC PAL will not be exhibiting there this time around, however we will be doing something far more interesting for those who would like to find out more about what we have to offer! Continue reading

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Hello All, I wanted to alert you to a FREE educational seminar (supported by LloydsTSB) to help educate people looking to invest in a franchise business in the UK. Choosing which franchise business model to invest in for your future is one of the biggest decisions you will make. These FREE educational franchise seminars provide impartial guidance and advice to help you make the right decision. Entitled "How to evaluate a good franchise" the three hour evening franchise seminar programme covers all the steps you need to consider when choosing which franchise to... Continue reading

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Hello All, Ten years on from the first educational seminar programme (and now supported by LloydsTSB), Franchise Seminars continue to help educate people looking to invest in a franchise business in the UK. Choosing which franchise business model to invest in for your future is one of the biggest decisions you will make. These FREE educational franchise seminars provide impartial guidance and advice to help you make the right decision.Throughout 2011, FREE Franchise Seminars are being run fortnightly throughout the UK. Franchise Seminars venues include:LondonBirminghamManchesterLeeds Entitled "How to evaluate a good franchise" the... Continue reading

The average broadband speed across the UK is 6.2Mbit, where as the average advertised speed is 13.8Mbit, so most people are getting less than half the speed they are paying for. However, in some other European countries the average speed people are getting is over 16Mbits; in Germany and in Holland they are getting over 23Mbits. Luckily Virgin Media have been rolling out 100Mbit around the UK since October 2010 with an expected completion of around the middle of 2012, so if you can get the 100Mbit service you can help bring up the average UK internet speed, especially with... Continue reading

As of 31st of March 2011 the amount of people using the internet passed the 2 billion mark (2,095,006,005 to be exact) or about 30.2% of the world population. Asia makes up 922 million with Europe the next closest at 476 million and North America at 272 million. North America may only have 272 million internet users but that is 78.3% of the population of North America, which is by far the highest percentage of total population. So when you are on the internet and it suddenly slows down, check what time it is in North America or Asia, because... Continue reading

Jat appeared on Phil Upton's breakfast show on BBC WM on Wednesday. Jat scared everyone by saying we'd had 8-9 inches of snow - when he meant cm! Listen here http://ping.fm/NQqwK Continue reading

Orange and Barclaycard have just announced a joint venture whereby you can use your Orange phone to purchase items up to a maximum of £15 per transaction just by waving your phone over a special device at the till. However, there is only 1 phone you can use at the moment and that has only just come out. Hopefully there will be some Android phones and here's hoping the next iPhone will have the NFC contact less technology in. So if you are lucky enough to have one of the Samsung Tocco Quick Taps then you can use it in... Continue reading

You expect the latest laptops, phones and a few desktop PCs to have Wi-Fi, but manufacturers are starting to make more and more devices with Wi-Fi built-in to make our lives easier. Things like printers and scanners being Wi-Fi make it easier to all use the same printer on different PCs or Apple Macs. HP are launching a mouse in the next month or two that uses Wi-Fi to connect, instead of using a Bluetooth dongle to take up precious USB ports on a laptop, plus it should work upto 30 feet from the computer so should be good for... Continue reading

Having used Apple Macs for over 16 years, today was the first time I have ever seen a Mac infected with malware! Continue reading

An illustrated repair guide on popular Tech site Toms hardware has appeared giving people help on repairing their computer. As we are your friendly PC PAL Engineers we thought we would share this guide with you… see the link below: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/the-oatmeal-how-to-fix-computer,12618.html Did any of your find that helpful… NO... I didn’t think you would so I have taken the time to make my own guide. See below: Remember if you need help with your computer don't stress yourself out by rumaging through the internet for answers. Call the people who are Qualified, Experienced, Insured and Local to you... Call PC... Continue reading

This year at The Gadget Show Live there were a lot of companies showing off their latest 3D products, almost all of which required you to wear glasses; only the Nintendo 3DS didn't. Wouldn't have minded seeing some 3D TVs that dont need you to wear rechargable glasses. The other area that seemed to get some attention was mind controlled software to do various things, which seems to be just the begining in this area! While walking round the Hall of Fame there were quite a few things I remember playing/using as a kid, me and a friend at school... Continue reading

How do you bring the internet down for thousands of people? You might think you would need to hire some top job hacker but you would be wrong… All you need is to get an older lady and give her a spade and she will sort it out for you. Yes, that’s what has happened in the US, as an elderly woman in Georgia is facing a prison sentence after reportedly causing internet services in neighbouring Armenia to crash. The old lady was scavenging for copper when she found a fibre optic cable and damaged it. Lucky for now she... Continue reading

If you ever wanted to know what it is like actually being a PC PAL Engineer, now you can! We have just published our "Day in the Life of a PC PAL Engineer". Take a look.... Continue reading

Those free apps your kids download on the iPod/iPhone/iPad sometimes aren't so free, when they have extra items to make the game bigger and better, but that cost you money, charged through your iTunes account. Well Apple listened to the parents around the world who'd had rather large amounts of money charged to their credit/debit cards, and there are now restrictions to stop in-app purchases. First make sure you have iOS 4.3 or higher, to check go into Settings, General, About and check what Version is listed, if not 4.3 or higher update using iTunes. Then go to Settings, General... Continue reading

IE9 Crowned Best Browser by Toms Hardware Internet Explorer is the world’s most popular browser, the one which comes with your computer and auto updates to the latest version. For this reason it’s still the browser of choice for most people. But for us computer savvy people we know there are alternatives to the famous IE. These alternatives are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera, and unless you have been hiding under a rock the past 10 years you might recognise the names of some of these browsers. So you might ask yourself “which one should I use, and why would... Continue reading

We've just brought out a new PC PAL Franchise Training Brochure brochure, take a look... Continue reading

PC PAL are thrilled to have been named finalists with all 3 of our entires into The Franchise Marketing Awards! The first one was for Best Website and the other two for Best Print Advert - shown below. Continue reading

Microsoft's digital crimes unit and US marshalls took down computers in a number of US states last Wednesday, that were controlling millions of computers that have been infected with Rustock malware. I have noticed a drop in spam I'm getting from 10-20 messages to only 1-2 over these last few days. Some reports say Rustock was sending out half the worlds spam, about 200 billion messages a day. Probably best to make sure your computer is not infected, update your anti-virus program and run a scan, if you haven't got any call your local PC PAL Engineer and we can... Continue reading

If you love everything apple then you may need to turn away. Yes, you’ve guessed it, the IPAD2 has become the latest victim to the “Will it blend” Video Series. I for one have never really been into Apple, and have been looking forward to this for quite some time.... Please do not try this at home. Continue reading

Our latest franchisee Jamie Cunningham who recently launched in Taunton, Somerset, was interviewed by Simon Parkin on BBC Radio Somerset last Saturday! He speaks about his expereince of having a shock redundancy and being faced with the big decision of what to do next. Have a listen..... Continue reading

After weeks of fine tuning and tweaking I think we are finally there.... With a striking new theme and custom photography, we think it ticks all the boxes, see what you think! We have also discovered we are finalists of The Franchise Marketing Awards 2011 in the Best Website Category! Fingers crossed for us to win! Continue reading

System tool is the most recent attempt by hackers and scammers in trying to trick you out of your hard earned money. System Tool is what we call a Rogue Antivirus and its goal is to harvest your credit & debit cards details. The first thing a hacker will do is find a popular website, hack it and then places its own virus on there, internet users then mistakenly download this virus and get infected. The next stage is quite amusing because it then brings up a window warning the user that their computer is infected with all these viruses.... Continue reading