Monthly Archives: March 2008

Sky wants to make sure you back-up your stuff, and share it too if you want

Sky customers should be pleased with the ever expanding range of good value services that are available to them

Getting through the credit crunch: If you have taken out a loan

High interest rates on credit cards, existing loans and overdrafts can make it harder for you to reduce your debt.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is here – details and how to…

Late last Tuesday night, GMT time, Microsoft met its self imposed deadline and has started shipping the hotly anticipated Windows Service Pack 1 for Vista. It’s mostly bug fixes and performance tweaks, but the sheer volume of ‘em is something to behold. … Continue reading

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Getting through the credit crunch: Save up to £150 on your car insurance

Comparing your car insurance could get you a better policy at a lower price. Plus you can save time with uSwitch too.

Word of the week: CD-R, CD-RW

CD-R & CD-RW Discs which come labelled CD-R means that they can be written to (or burnt as it technically know) but only once. CD-RW discs can be written to multiple times, the RW stands for re-writable.

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Wi-Fi theft arrests made, checking email the crime (apparently)

Two individuals have been arrested for “dishonestly obtaining a communications service” after they used a householder’s wireless network to

Getting through the credit crunch: Save £100s when you switch your credit card

Switch your credit card balance to a 0% interest balance transfer card and you could save up to £400 over 18 months.

Check names in your email

If you want to check the name or email address before you send the message, press

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Word of the week: Homepage

Homepage All sites on the Internet consist of a series of ‘pages’. The ‘homepage’ is the first page you see when you visit a website, and acts as the main entry point that leads to all the other areas within … Continue reading

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The True Origin of the Internet

This week’s Friday amusement is The True Origin of the Internet. As ever,