Now that many of us rely on our phones and laptops the way we rely on oxygen and water, battery life has become a prime concern for both individuals and businesses. Here are some of Tristar’s top tips for making the most of your devices’ battery life... Mobile Phones & Tablet Devices Turn off background refresh…

Video game pioneer David Braben has been appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list regarding the work he has done for the UK's video game and computer industries. Known as one-half of the team that created the massively popular computer game ‘Elite’, Braben was partially responsible for the development of the sweetly named Raspberry…

Almost everyone who has ever used a computer has experienced that terrible sinking feeling; that important document you were just working on is gone, your data is lost – and you forgot to back it up. Whilst losing a personal document is bad, losing business data can be much worse – and a recent survey…

Some users may only just have adjusted to the concept of cloud computing, but there’s already a replacement on the horizon; fog computing. While it’s only just beginning to create a buzz, the term has been around for a little while, and it refers to a structure that may provide users with a smoother, faster…

At Tristar Support, we can provide a variety of IT Support contracts in London for you to make use of, and some of our services are especially well used. Email Hosting is one such common package that many people in business environments rely on, but comparatively few people actually understand what this system is, and…

Competent IT support has revolutionised the world of business as a whole, and one of the most powerful tools that the modern age has brought us is the possibility of remotely retrieving work. Remote access can take many forms, but the concept always remains the same; namely the ability to keep up to speed with…

Business IT support immediately evokes images of computers needing maintenance, and indeed a good proportion of business IT support does conform to this ‘norm’. However the phrase ‘IT’ – the abbreviation of information technology – actually encompasses any device that is designed to store, retrieve, transmit and work with data of any description, and so…

With the government constantly reiterating about how much of a serious issue global warming has become, the British public are now ‘in the know’ about environmental damage that has taken place over the years. Statistics about carbon emissions are released on a regular basis, and businesses have surfaced as being responsible for the largest amount…