As another year comes to the end we decided to make a list of affordable electronics introduced in 2011. If you decided to buy a cool gift for your favorite techie, read this short list as it might give you some general ideas about electronics today and lead you through technology labyrinth!

Tablets

In the world of Tablets, there is one that attracted the most attention. We are talking about Motorola Mobility’s Xoom – tablet that will conquer you the second you get your eyes on it. This tablet uses Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) – upgradeable to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), has 10.1” HD widescreen display, Dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, and up to 64GB storage. Not bad for a tablet!

Laptops / Notebooks

One of the best choices you could make this year is Apple’s 13.3” MacBook MC240LL/A. With its characteristics (1280X800 pixels, 2.26GHz Intel Core processor, and 250GB HD among others), solid battery life (up to 7 hours), and general looks, MacBook is designed to rock! We definitely give you heads up for buying this one!

Wireless Reading

And this year again, probably the most popular wireless reader title goes to Kindle! Its 6” monitor will allow you to enjoy reading ‘your style’. You can change font as it suits you and you don’t have to worry of getting a headache for spending hours reading from it. Its battery life is more or less 4 days and it can hold up to 1,500 books. You don’t have to download any software or do any configuration. You have access to over 360,000 bestsellers and free access to the Classics!

Video Game Consoles

This area is a bit complicated. Depending on individual preferences you can choose different gaming consoles; however, our strongest recommendation is definitely one of the Microsoft Xbox models, in this case that would be the 360 model.  You can have full confidence that this model will fulfill most of your expectations. With their high standard qualities and approachable price you will just love it!

Flat Screen TVs

We decided to go with Samsung PND8000. Fair price, excellent quality, and full experience while watching movies made this flat screen TV one of our first choices in this category. There are other excellent flat screen TVs among which you can choose, for example Panasonic, Sony, LG and other brands; the market is very big and your final decision depends on your preferences!

After giving you some ideas of what to buy these holidays, we can only say that electronic advancement is every year making this market even more loaded with different products, normally of a good quality. If you have any doubts, we can help you out. We wish you successful shopping and happy holidays!

This time we decided to write about a very important and always very relevant topic when talking about computers – hacking. Nowadays, world hacking is seen as something very negative and dangerous. But is it? Or are there hackers out there that are harmless? Well, to start, we will explain two basic types of hackers.

Type number one, the one with negative connotations, brings hackers that people sometimes have nightmares about – hackers with bad intentions. These type of hackers  could potentially be very dangerous because their goal is to hack into personal or corporate systems and change (usually financial) data, steal personal information (identity theft), break security codes or even hack into highly protected governmental systems. For individual users, the most dangerous is stealing personal information, such as credit card numbers and security codes. This could be done by implanting a virus or worm into someone’s system, but also by direct hacking (entering) into someone’s computer. By doing that, hackers have access to all your personal and private data that you save on your computer, but also that your computer saves itself (history of surfing, passwords, etc.). We do not have to tell you what happens if a hacker finds your credit card numbers and its code –basically his party begins. We are not saying that buying online is very dangerous and you should not do it, what we are saying is that no matter of what, you have to have your computer well protected. And this is where we can help you. You have to be aware of potential danger whenever you start surfing, and that a lot of pages contain worms or viruses that can harm your computer. Therefore, we always recommend monthly maintenance of your computer.

Type number two, and probably the more interesting type of hackers in the world of hacking, can be seen as ‘goodfellas’.  They often see hacking as a form of art and an opportunity to show their abilities while not harming other computers. Hackers of this type that show extremely high level of expertise in this area often end up in big companies or governmental institutions working on exactly the opposite task  – discovering ‘holes’ in the system and preventing hackers to enter it. There are some success stories of young minds who were just playing around and hacking systems from IBM or the Pentagon that ended up working for them. And when we say young minds, we mean they are literally young. We have to admit that there is much to admire if a 13 or 14-year-old teenager breaks into Pentagon’s system. In this case, there were probably no bad intentions; it was just a matter of showing off to their friends. There is no doubt that they are caught, however their life usually takes another turn at that point and their knowledge and gift are used to protect, instead of destroy.

After breaking hacking down into these two groups, we can clearly see that not all hacking is directed towards taking advantage of one’s computer. In fact out of all hackers, only small percentage is malicious. This is the group we fight against by protecting your computers and if too late, cleaning computers, recovering data, or even repairing damage. This type of hackers can cause a lot of problems and damage while heading towards their goal, and therefore, your computer’s protection always needs to be at its best. We are here to help you. Surf safely until our next article!

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