On December 17th Twitter was hijacked by "Iranian Cyber Army" who managed to compromise DNS server records which in layman's term means that they were able to redirect requests to twitter.com to their own servers. Users who tried to login during that time saw the screenshot which is presented in this post above.

While this does not necessarily mean that any passwords were compromised, it would have been very easy for the attackers to set up a fake login page and harvest user passwords as the unsuspecting users tried to log in. We would however suggest that if you haven't already done so yet, please change your twitter.com password to be on the safer side.

A great news for all of us who own iPhones here in the UK. O2 is now letting customers officially unlock their iPhones! This service is free for people who are on a pay montly contract and costs just £14.69 one off charge for customers on a pay as you go tarriff. Once unlocked you can use your iPhone on any network that you desire. However please note that you still have to honour your contract with O2 if you have one!

For more details and to get the process started visit http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/unlockmyiphone.html

We at British PC Repairs have our hands on some google wave invites! Leave a comment here with your email id or email us at fixit@BritishPcRepairs.co.uk if you need a Google Wave Invite!

"Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."

More about Google Wave can be found here

This is by far the coolest add on for Firefox that we have seen. This add on is called firefound and can be found here

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51329

Once you have installed this add on and have restarted your firefox you have to chose a username and password. After this is done you can simply browse to www.firefound.com and log in using this username and password. The page will immediately show the last known location of your laptop!!

In the spirit of this festive season we are pleased to announce that for a limited time we will be offering free^* repairs for registered charities in England. If you are a registered charity and would like to know more about this offer you can call us on 01372 890 123 or on 07545 819 363. Alternatively you can email us on fixit@britishpcrepairs.co.uk or use the form here to send us a message.

^{*Terms and conditions apply. You must be a registered charity in England for more than 12 months. The offer excludes costs of parts though you are not obliged to buy parts from us. We can use parts from your old laptops/computers to repair your other broken machines. Please contact us by any of the methods listed above should you need more details.}