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Immobilise Your Valuables!

24/10/2024

 
Immobilise Your Valuables
Most of us own various gadgets and valuable items that would be devastating if they were lost or stolen and couldn’t be recovered. From smartphones holding our personal data to bikes, cars and caravans even our pets and livestock. All these items are attractive to would-be thieves – often easy to move quickly and sell on.
It is a good idea to take precautions to protect our valuable items such as using the inbuilt security on our phones and computers or using strong locking and immobilising devices on bikes, cars and caravans. But did you know there are national registers that allow you to input your valuables to their databases and apply security tags to allow them to be returned to you if they are recovered?

Immobilise is the world’s largest free register that can be used by the public and businesses. You simply register your valuables and/or company assets and the ownership details can then be viewed by the police on the national property database – NMPR. Immobilise is the only ownership registration service supported by all UK police forces, the Greater London Authority, and the mobile phone industry.

How Immobilise works:
  • The Immobilise Property Register is part of the Recipero Crime Reduction Ecosystem – Learn more about Recipero here: Recipero
  • Police are able to track and trace owners of stolen or lost items by utilising the data help on Immobilise/NMPR.
  • You can purchase additional security devices from Immobilise to help track and protect your belongings from would-be thieves. These include security marking kit, bike RFID tagging device, asset labels and window decals.
  • You can register most items on Immobilise – you are not limited to items with serial numbers as you can give detailed descriptions and add photos of the items in question (eg jewellery) – marking the items with UV pen or asset label will give you a uniques identifier for something that otherwise wouldn’t be able to be registered.
  • Reporting lost or stolen items is quick and easy and  simply by logging into your account.
  • Immobilise is linked with CheckMend – a database which allows traders to check if goods they are purchasing are stolen.
  • You can even download property details for a police report or to give to your insurer, simplifying the claims process.

Theft and loss will always happen but taking steps to protect your valuables through Immobilise can help deter thieves and increase the likelihood of your belongings finding their way back to you should they be recovered. As with any security you want to make your valuables as difficult and unattractive to steal as possible – using a database to register your items adds that extra layer of protection.

What is the Best Antivirus Software?

16/4/2015

 
What is the Best Antivirus Software?
A straight forward question, with no, one definitive answer!

There are so many quality products, with prices from free upwards. There are so many terms used to try to single one out as better than another, after a while it all gets a bit confusing. I think that a good antivirus program, being used properly is what is needed. So to that end here are a few tips to help make sure you are getting the best out of the antivirus software you have.

  1. Ensure that your antivirus software is on. This may seem simple but is often over looked.
  2. Check your antivirus software is current. It is easy to have installed a good antivirus program but it's often not until there is a problem that we realise it is the 2012 version and is no longer doing its job. Often when you buy a new computer, it will come with a free trial, these trials can last as little as 3 months and the expiry date can easily be overlooked.
  3. Make sure your antivirus software is up to date. It may seem annoying that sometimes every time you want to use your computer it's doing another update but this is to help protect you.
  4. Your operating system needs to be up to date. Your antivirus software works "hand in glove" with the operating system.
  5. Take a few minutes to configure your antivirus software correctly. Most antivirus programs will require a little setup, most updates, scans, real time shields can be set to run automatically, usually at times more convenient for you.
  6. Avoid turning your antivirus software off. Sometimes is can be necessary to turn off your antivirus software, such as installing a new printer often request that you temporarily disable the antivirus software to aid a smooth installation. This is fine but do reactivate as soon as possible. If your computer is a shared computer it is always worth checking whether the user before you has deactivated the antivirus, and forgotten to turn it back on.
  7. Be suspicious of emails. If you don't know the sender or were not expecting an email form the sender… do NOT open it, just delete it. If the email was important and the sender needs to contact you the sender will find another way!
  8. Read the pop up boxes asking you to check and uncheck items when downloading from the internet. Some internet pages will have additional pop-up boxes that may be nothing to with what you were looking for. These checkboxes represent your choices and they will do what you allow them to.
  9. If you have a problem, deal with it now! The chances are it will get progressively worse if left!
  10. Don't forget about your tablets and smartphones. These days they are as much a computer as your tower or laptop and need protecting with an antivirus app the same way.

Wearable’s… To Wear or Not To Wear? 

11/3/2015

 
Wearables Samsung Galaxy Gear
So… recently it was my anniversary and my very lovely partner Sara, knowing what a massive geek I am, got me a watch.

But not just any watch, she got me a Samsung Galaxy Gear!  Now I know there are lots of debates about wearable’s and just exactly what their purpose is. I must admit that my primary thoughts on getting one is that they do look cool! I have a growing collection of watches and a geek watch seemed like it would fit in well.

Since putting it on a month ago I just can't seem to be parted from it (please remember I could wear a watch every day for over a fortnight and not wear the same one twice). The features of the Samsung Galaxy Gear are simple and so useful, I love the speaker embedded in the strap allowing for hands-free calls. I find Bluetooth headsets uncomfortable and inconvenient as I never seem to have it when I need it. The clever touch screen display is easy to get the hang of and puts everything a maximum of a few swipes away.

It pops up notifications on screen, as they come in, with a little ping if you like, so that you can see at a glance if something important has come in or if you have yet another email about your PPI claim! It is straight forward to customise to your own tastes and preferences and there is quite a lot of apps and customisations available, a good chunk of it for free too.

I have put Solitaire and a Pac Man game onto it and they are easy enough to use and will help kill a few spare moments, the built in pedometer is handy and it's good to have my schedule always to hand. The battery life is not bad, a full day's use zaps it by about 50% and it is very quick to charge back up.

It has an integrated camera, which if I am honest I have not yet found a use for, but I have only had it a month.

So I have a watch I can talk to and a black car that talks to me (via the integrated Sat Nav), so my childhood dream of becoming Michael Knight is getting ever closer!

What is your favourite gadget or piece of tech?

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