AI giveth and AI taketh away. While some people are reaping the benefits of AI assistance enabling them to work more efficiently, the technology behind this is almost relentlessly hungry for various resources including computer components, and that means the supply of these for consumer devices is becoming scarce.

Most of us have at least a couple of keyboard shortcuts memorised for stuff we do a lot. Control / Command + P to print and Control / Command + C and V to copy and paste are probably up there for most people. In this article, we'll outline a few others we find useful. How many of them did you already know?

We have seen an uptick of email from unknown sources with PDF attachments of late. It is worth restating that you should be very wary of ANY email from an unknown source regardless of the content. Attempts to compromise machines via email come in many forms. Most frequently, this will either be via a zip attachment, or a link to a malicious website. However, the people engineering these emails know that awareness of attacks in this form is increasing, so are always on the lookout for new ways to trick people into compromising their machines. This recent spate of emails fall into that category.

Having worked in the IT support business for many years, we get all sorts of IT problems to deal with. While these issues are sometimes complex, there's a few things that any computer user can do before having to pick up that phone and contact your IT support team of choice.