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App of the month
If you’ve ever forgotten a password, you’ll love this! OnePassword is a handy app that creates and stores your passwords for all the different places you need a ‘let...
Don’t be held to ransom
There has been quite a lot of press about the Gameover Zeus virus and most of the antivirus providers have been working overtime to find a means of blocking it. At the...
Night, night computer
When you’ve rushed out and forgotten to send your computer to sleep there are a couple of clever ways to do this remotely – one for Macs and one for PCs using Windows....
How to keep your website up-to-date
A website that never changes is less and less likely to be ranked by the search engines. When the spiders visit they look for fresh material and if nothing has changed...
HTML for dummies!
If you’ve got a website that uses HTML (like Wordpress) it can be useful to understand the basic programming commands so you don’t need to call in your web support...
Do you need a login on your website?
There are many reasons that you may be asked to log in on a website, most of them are valid, but sometimes there seems to be no good reason. Here are a few of the...
What does your email address say about you?
It’s astonishing how many businesses are still operating with an email address that shouts ‘amateur’! I’m talking about those emails that end in aol.com, gmail.com,...
Are you getting what you’re paying for?
When you sign up to a broadband deal you’ll find suppliers will be trying to entice you with promises of ‘super-fast’ download speeds, but how accurate are these...
My heart bleeds for you
Everyone is crying about the Heartbleed bug that has caused security problems for sites that use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to keep log in and credit card details...
Ex-rated
Microsoft has made XP an ex-Operating System. As of 8th April they won’t be fixing any problems so your operating system is wide open. What does that mean to you? If...
Have you been breaking the law?
If you’ve ever bought a CD and then transferred it to iTunes so you can listen to it on your MP3 player or SmartPhone, the answer is ‘yes’. It may seem ridiculous that...
A new way to communicate
Now we’re all using mobile devices as extensions of our thought processes, it’s hard to imagine the days when only big businesses had computers. The jump from business...
Watch your data consumption …
When you’re watching TV on your laptop or tablet you may not be making much of a dent in your monthly data allowance right now – but things are about to change. With...
The internet has eaten my email
How often have you sent an email and got no response and then, following up, find that the person you sent it to hasn’t received it? Most of the time you get some kind...
Stay in control of your website
When you talk to a new web company about revamping your current website or creating a new one, don’t forget to talk about the content management system. Content...
Enriching your website
The search engines love content – that means that website owners who want to keep their site well up the rankings need to keep ‘feeding’ the hungry search engines. If...
Connecting by email
Most of us take email for granted – until we don’t get a reply to something we’ve sent and call up to discover that it has not been received. Often this is because...
Step-by-step
If you are in the manufacturing industry there has to be a process for producing the product you’re making. You can’t carry out random actions and expect a product...