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 secure.  It’s not a virus or even a direct result of hacking, but simply a hole in the code that leaves...

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 you’re still using XP you won’t get any more updates to fix security issues.  That means that 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 you’ve paid good money for music or an CD of an electronic book, only to find that you can only...

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 computing to home computing, and from dial up to broadband has been an incredibly fast process....

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 services like Netflix and Amazon becoming more and more common as a means of catching up with series...

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 of message telling you it hasn’t been received, but not always. Why has your email failed to...

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 management can be anything from just being able to edit the text on a page, to being able to do almost...

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 you’re not a prolific writer, have dyslexia or are just time-poor that can pose a challenge. ...

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 it’s been routed into the junk folder – and who has the time to look in that regularly?  Anyway, the...

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 that works to come out of the other end of the production process. Some organisations have processes...