Monthly Archives: August 2008
How to make sure you’re running the latest version of OpenOffice
For those who use the brilliant freebie software OpenOffice, it has been noticed over the years that the various updates, security fixes, and improvements do seem to have been missed out upon by many users. Well, here is a how … Continue reading
Make a note in your diary…
Dear all, I hope you enjoyed the bank holiday weekend, and for the last bank holiday of the year you did something good ‘n’ fun. As I said in my message on Friday, I would be announcing some key dates … Continue reading
Get your solar panels from … IKEA!?
IKEA is planning on going beyond the usual flat-pack furniture market and (hopefully) within the next five years could be adding “green” goods to its product line, including solar panels.
Troubleshooting Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 documents for older versions of Office
Over recent months, some users have been grumbling that they cannot open documents (Word, Excel etc) from other Office users. On closer inspection the sender of the document was using Office 2007, whilst the recipient was using MS Office 2003, … Continue reading
Patch Batch Tuesday – 12 fixes for all
Microsoft has released 12 fixes this morning, seven of which are flagged as “critical”, in the usual monthly edition of regular updates on a Tuesday.
WordPress 2.6 TinyMCE fix
This post is very much outside of the usual realms of The Blogberry’s articles, it’s designed for those who use WordPress (an open source blogging software platform). On the whole, it’s safe to say that most customers can ignore this … Continue reading
Word of the Week: Megabyte
Megabyte: A megabyte is a measurement of size. 1 megabyte (or 1MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, just like the metric scale. Typically, a single photo at good or high quality will be roughly 1 MB. A single music track … Continue reading
Google Search Privacy Info – Made Plain and Simple
A customer asked me the other day what info Google collects when a user enters a search query. Well, I knew just about what info they hold / use, but I wasn’t able to give it quite into laymans terms. … Continue reading
British Gas – 35% rise is price – time for you to move on?
It’s all starting to get a bit ‘doom and gloom’ in the energy sector. Last week British Gas knocked-up this prices by 35%! Which to say the least for the average home user is quite a bit.
Word of the Week: VOIP
VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocal is basically a phone call that is made using the Internet rather than the conventional telephone network. A now popular example of VOIP technology is Skype.
