Archive for the ‘Basic Tutorials’ Category
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Online reviews for things you may buy, visit, or think about, are really useful when making decisions. Unfortunately, some aren’t that trustworthy.
Here are a few tips that will help you spot fake reviews from the real ones. (more…)
Tags: check, making decisions, Online, reliability, reviewers
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
In June Google increased the maximum attachment size of a message to be 25MB. Some users are still hungry for larger sizes – but that’s a bad idea. (more…)
Tags: Email, Internet, Sky
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
An age old problem has resurfaced for Adobe Flash Player users this week. (more…)
Tags: Adobe, Fix, Flash, Future, Windows Vista
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
When travelling abroad with your laptop it worth keeping in mind a few points. There included it getting lost, stolen or damaged – business travellers should be better at this than those who are taking their laptop on holiday. (more…)
Tags: check, Email, Internet, Security, Windows Vista
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Using Wi-Fi on the go is rapidly becoming far easier. Planes, trains, stations, hotels, coffee shops – you name it you can get it just about anywhere. But as a friendly word of warning, you maybe opening the door to security problems. (more…)
Tags: AntiVirus, Internet, Norton, Security, virus
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Last week a customer asked me how to save photos someone has sent them from an email.
Simply right-clicking over any of the photos did not allow them to save it, nor would copy and paste, or clicking and dragging to a folder. (more…)
Tags: Email, Flash, Internet, Internet Explorer, Outlook
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Often people say that they are bored by how many pages are printed out when they press print whilst viewing a website. Mainly the waste of paper which is produced and the unnecessary amounts of ink involved. There is an easy way round this problem which is oh so often over looked. (more…)
Tags: Environment, Firefox, Internet, Internet Explorer, News
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
One of the most misinterpreted functions of the keyboard that I come across on a day-to-day basis is the difference between the ‘return’ key and the ‘enter’ key. (more…)
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Last year I posted an article about how to reset and force an update for a Sky+ box (more on that here). This year, due to some requests, I am posting details of how to reset and force an update on a Sky+ HD box. (more…)
Tags: check, HD, Phone, Sky, Troubleshooting, TV, Upgrade
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Earlier in the month I covered what the ‘Quick Launch‘ bar was. This week I am going to tell you how to add items to the Quick Launch bar for quick and easy access to your favourite programs – it probably couldn’t be easier! (more…)
Tags: Windows Vista
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