Posted November 1, 2017

Google Street View – how it is made?

Google’s mission to make the world information universally accessible took an incredibly ambitious turn, when in 2007 they launched the street view project to give users a glimpse of what places all over the world actually look like. But how they were able to capture images from so many places? The idea is actually […]

Posted October 3, 2017

Call of Duty WW2: Prepare for the battle

Did you have a chance to play Call of Duty WW2 open beta? I hope so, as IMHO this is the best Call of Duty Series game for the last 10 years. Introduction and author’s own opinion. (You may easily skip it, the part will not have a word about the new game). In […]

Posted June 29, 2017

Petya ransomware strikes back!

A new wave of malware attacks has been launched this week in Europe and has spread all over the world for the last 2 days. The name of the virus – Petya is well known and we have already written about the ways to protect your computer from this ransomware. Unfortunately, Ukrainian government (the European country […]

Posted June 9, 2017

Apple HomePod

Amazon’s smart speaker Echo has been a huge success after it was released in June 2015. On May 2017 Google presented its own smart speaker, Google Home. Now Apple has made a move releasing its version of the smart speaker – Apple HomePod. Apple says that HomePod will do same for indoor music playback, what iPod did for […]

Posted May 30, 2017

Poor Wifi signal?

There is no sense paying for high-speed internet at home or office if you can not take advantage of it. The simplest and most common example is when you are not getting desired connection speed via wifi. It turns out that there may be multiple different root causes that drop Wifi speed or block it at […]

Posted May 29, 2017

You don’t WannaCry? How to be protected?

Protecting computer from viruses and other threats is becoming more and more challenging task year after year. Seems that antivirus giants are fighting with badware enthusiasts, turning customer devices into the never ending battlefield. The latest news from this war are not inspiring for users, since the new ransomware – WannCry (also known as WCry […]

Posted May 19, 2017

ISO 9001 certification

After many weeks of hard work and reviewing our processes I am pleased to announce that we have passed our ISO 9001:2015 audit and have been granted full qualification. Achieving our ISO 9001:2015 certification is such great news! It means that our customers now have complete assurance that HiTech Service LLC operates to the […]

Posted May 3, 2017

Should you manually upgrade to Windows 10 Creators update?

Windows 10 Creators Update has been available for users for 2 weeks now, however we are still not able to get this patch through “Check for updates” and there is a reason for that. Browsing through Internet forums and reading multiple users’ complaints I somehow recall classic chef Gordon Ramsay screaming “It’s raw!!!!” Microsoft team […]

Posted April 18, 2017

How to run plugins on FireFox 52?

If you are a big fan of Mozilla FireFox browser you might have noticed that different plugins like Java, Flash, oldschool Silverlight etc., stopped working. Starting from update 52 Firefox no longer supports different plugins. As per Firefox this was done in order to increase security and performance of the browser. Unfortunately for FireFox, […]

Posted March 15, 2017

SSD vanished from the list of drives? How to diagnose

It’s very unfortunate to find out one day that your disk drive, either SSD or HDD, stopped working and is no longer available in the list of devices. It’s not only the price for the new PC part that matters here, this is gigs of valuable information that disappeared at a glance. So what should […]