This week has been a long one, to say the least. Still, it’s that time of the week where I get to share the very best jokes and amusing novalties with readers of the Blogberry. Do remember to share your jokes, videos, and what-not’s either at the usual address, or by clicking here.

This week, is for those of you have who have given directions from Google Maps a whirl, you might like this:- (more…)

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 to tell guide if you want to get the most out of OpenOffice, and how to keep on top of the updates. There are two ways of telling which version you currently have installed:- (more…)

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 in relation to a disruption of service, so please make a note of them:- (more…)

Enjoy you’re weekends. But before you do slide off, just a remind of when you do have to call the callcentre (a thing I dread!).
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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. (more…)

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, XP…or even older. (more…)

Usual quick word to say have a good weekend – hopefully weather will be better than the last one.

Before I go, points this week go to …. (more…)

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. (more…)

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 post. Those who use Wordpress  – read on! (more…)

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 at standard quality and stored as an MP3, will be about 3MBs