An upcoming holiday in a lovely little cottage with no fixed Internet access forced me to upgrade my old Vodafone USB Dongle (They stopped support for it). I was orginally planning on going “Off the grid” for the week, but that isn’t wise, practical, or advisable if you run your own business! Initially I was...
Let me explain a little bit. I’m talking about “The Heartbleed Bug”, a recent security threat that is affecting hundreds and thousands of websites. Now, you have more than likely seen a lot of press in the last couple of days about the ‘Heartbleed Bug’, whether it be on the BBC news, or the Radio...
Another nice, simple and useful blog post. This time for all those Google Chrome users out there. Recently a client changed from using Internet Explorer as his main browser, to Google Chrome. The only thing that the user wanted to add, was a “Print” button. Now Google Chrome doesn’t have this as default, but we...
Do you use the Thunderbird email client? Do you use an email signature? If you answered yes to both of those, then have a little read on, you may be in need of a little trick to help your email signature appear as you want it to. Not all “greyed out” and wishy washy looking,...
I don’t do many “How to’s” on my blog, I should do more. The reason for this one is an annoying and irritating search toolbar called “Delta Search”, you may have it installed on Google Chrome, Internet Explorer of Firefox. But one thing is for sure, if you have it installed, it’ll cause problems. Over...
Ok, so I’ve been guilty in the past of advising users to use Microsoft Security Essentials as a viable alternative to other free antivirus solutions. That was of course when it first came on the scene and was rated highly alongside other free security suites. Now, however, it’s come to light through various sources, namely...
I’ve decided to do a super quick post on this, as I’ve had a couple of clients ask me how to do this recently. Now apart from the obvious way of changing your desktop image through the System Preferences pane in OSX – you can actually do it direct from iPhoto, an option which they...
Well, it’s getting close to June, and for me, and 13 others, that means we’re about to embark on our second “SSIJ” challenge, www.ssij.co.uk Last year we ran the South Downs Way in 3 days, that’s over 100 miles. This year however, we’ve decided to double up and do 205 miles of the Pennine Bridleway,...
Now, this is an archived post from my old blog, but the all the content is relevant as unfortunately it’s still happening, please read on. Over the past few months/years I’ve spoken to a number of clients and indeed friends and family members who have had a phone call from companies posing either directly as...