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- … and yet more IT Jokes
- “WeTransfer” – file sharing via The Cloud
- 0800 Calls from a Mobile
- 3D Printing
- A brute force attack doesn’t need a Hulk
- A Few Computer Terms
- A Moment of Inattention
- A small victory – two clicks saved
- A Windows Tip and a Mac Tip
- A Year of Blog Posts
- Abusing Facebook Data
- AdBlock Plus
- Adding columns to File Explorer
- Adding Shortcuts for System Items to Windows Desktop
- Adding the date and time to a Word document
- Adding Yahoo or Gmail to an Email Client
- Adobe Reader’s Tools Pane is a Pain
- Air duster / vacuum cleaner
- Amazon Kindle and Big Brother
- An enigmatic email from Microsoft
- An example of Cloud Computing – ToodleDo Task Manager
- An Unashamed Plug
- Animated Gifs
- Another online security risk?
- Another Year Slips By
- Another year, another password list
- Antimalware Software
- Apple MFI Certification
- Apple’s Instant Wifi Hotspot
- Are browser password managers safe?
- Are viruses and malware the same thing?
- Are Windows Gadget Safe?
- Are you unwittingly testing “pre-release” Windows 10 updates?
- Are you vulnerable to a KRACK Attack?
- Ask.com and the Ask Toolbar
- Automatic Updates for Internet Explorer
- AVG Free 2011
- AVG to sell browsing history
- Avoiding Websites’ “Cookie Policy” Windows
- Backups – 1
- Backups – they are important!
- Basic Keyboard Shortcuts
- Basic Techniques In Photo Editing
- Blocked email on an Apple arriving in your inbox?
- Blog Posts Re-visited
- Blogs and Websites
- Bluetooth Mouse
- Broadband and Landline Service Compensation
- Broadband Migration and The Olympics
- Browser Shortcut Keys
- Browsers
- Buying A Laptop – Updated – part 1 of 2
- Buying A Laptop – Updated – part 2 of 2
- Buying a New Computer – 2022
- Buying a New Computer 2019 – 1 of 3
- Buying a New Computer 2019 – 2 of 3
- Buying a New Computer 2019 – 3 of 3
- Buying a New Laptop – February 2014
- Buying a New Laptop Computer
- Buying Office 2013
- Call Blocking
- Changing Broadband Provider
- Changing Your Browser’s Home Page
- Check service contracts occasionally
- Checking File Sizes and Space Available
- Chrome – saving and opening groups of web pages
- Chrome now supports “Do Not Track”
- Chrome Tab Groups
- Clipboard History
- Cloud Computing
- Computer chips are in short supply
- Computer Instructions
- Computers – it’s not all bad
- Confusing Outlook
- Consigning Email to Junk on an iPhone
- Copy a web page address (URL) with a QR code
- Copying Contacts from an iPhone to Gmail
- Create lists easily in Word
- Create PDFs Directly in Windows 10
- Create your own simple Password Manager
- Creating a Microsoft Recovery Code
- CryptoLocker
- Curse of the Jumping Cursor
- Defenestration
- Deleting Cookies Automatically
- Deleting Emails from iPhone Inboxes
- Detecting Scam and Phishing Emails
- Different browsers for different things
- Digital Image Formats
- Digital Image Formats (2)
- Disable Chrome’s Software Reporter Tool
- Do I need a new router?
- Don’t share an Apple ID with your partner if you’re playing away!
- Don’t Use Registry Cleaners
- Don’t use the same password over and over again
- Dot London is here
- Doubts about LinkedIn
- Dragging Folder Shortcuts to the Windows Taskbar
- Drawing a range circle on a Google map
- Dropbox – Free File Synchronising and Online Storage
- Dropbox and Email Netiquette Updates
- E-receipts – a “convenience” open to abuse
- Ecryption Backdoors
- Email – why you might not want to download pictures
- Email Address Fields
- Email Bounces – 2
- Email Rules
- Email Spoofing
- Emailing Large Attachments
- Evernote – taking the plunge
- Expanding Laptop Storage Easily
- Extending iPhone and iPad Storage
- External Backup Drives
- External CD/DVD Drives
- External storage for video files
- Faststone Image Viewer
- Fences
- File Sizes
- File Sizes – 2
- Filename Extensions
- Filtering Foreign Junk Email in Outlook
- Find Your Wifi Password
- Finding Someone on Skype
- Firefox Add-ons for Online Privacy
- Firefox Bells and Whistles
- Formatting Word Documents – The Easy Way
- Four Years of Blog Posts
- Free Cloud Storage
- Free Downloadable Maps
- GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker
- Get your old computer to someone who needs it
- Gmail “Suspicious Activity” – how to silence it
- Gmail Autoresponder
- Gmail Password
- Gmail Password Problem
- Gmail Shortcuts
- Gmail’s New Inbox
- Google Images
- Google Instant Answers
- Google Result Types
- Google Search
- Google to include Ad Blocking in Chrome
- Great Free Software – Gadwin Print Screen
- Guarding against Ransomware – for free
- Hate cookie popups? Try this
- Have you been pwned?
- Have You Tried Re-booting It?
- Heartbleed Bug
- HEIC/HEIF Images
- Hide “folder merge conflicts”
- How do you uninstall Internet Explorer in Windows 10?
- I blame computers
- I’ve had enough of Norton spam
- iBits and iPieces
- Icon Size & Spacing
- Illegal File Names
- iMessages and Text Messages
- Importing Favorites into a Different Browser
- Internal Server Error – 500
- Internet Browsers
- Internet Explorer gobbled up my disc space!
- Internet Privacy
- Internet Privacy (2)
- Internet Privacy Developments
- Internet Traffic Shaping
- Intuitive? I think not
- IOS 8 Issues
- IOS 9 Beta Available Now
- iPad Keyboards and Other Small Things
- iPhone Email Tweaks
- iPhone is Disabled
- iPhone Photo Bursts
- Iphone randomly capitalises words
- Is it all relative?
- Is It safe To Download a File?
- Is it worth learning keyboard shortcuts?
- Is it worth mending an iPhone?
- Is That Website Genuine and Safe?
- Is the Desktop PC about to disappear?
- It is safe to “preview” emails
- IT Jokes
- IT Jokes
- IT Jokes – 2020
- IT Jokes (again)
- IT Jokes (ver 17.12.22)
- It Jokes v18.12.21
- IT Niggles
- iTunes
- Kaspersky Free Antivirus
- Keep account recovery information current
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Laptop and Mobile Batteries
- Laptop Batteries
- Leading Us By The Nose
- Load Programs at Startup
- Logging On to Window 8
- Long SMS messages on an iPhone
- Long Term Data Retention
- Macs – force-quitting and right-clicking
- Macs for Users with Impaired Vison
- Make Your Computer Screen Sleep-friendly
- Making Windows 10 Updates Less Inconvenient
- Malware and Adware on a Mac
- Memory Hogs
- Messy Desktop – time for a spring clean
- Metadata
- Metered Wifi Connections in Windows
- Microsoft Compensates Woman for Windows 10 Upgrade Mess
- Microsoft Defender keeps giving notice of a historic threat
- Microsoft Office for free on iPhone and iPad
- Microsoft Outlook – what to do when it won’t open
- Microsoft PowerToys
- Microsoft Support for Windows 7 is Ending
- Microsoft Surface – my first sighting!
- Microsoft Surface Pro 3
- Microsoft Update Ends for Old Versions
- Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP in 2014
- Mobile Personal Hotspots
- Mobile Wifi
- Mobile wifi – a cautionary tale
- More About Backups
- More About Screen Captures
- More About The Windows 7 Taskbar
- More Chrome Settings
- More Email Netiquette
- More Google Search Tips
- More IT Jokes
- More Key Explanations
- Mounting a monitor above your desk
- Mouse: Wired or Wireless?
- Moving a Browser Tab to a New Window
- Moving a Dropbox Folder
- Moving Email Folders in Outlook (and more!)
- Moving iPhone Icons
- Multi Factor Authentication
- Multiple Apple IDs
- Multiple Browser Windows
- Multiple Users on an iPad?
- My Favourite free utilities and programs (1 of 2)
- My Favourite free utilities and programs (2 of 2)
- My Own Computers
- Net Neutrality
- New “.uk” Web Domains
- NHS Covid-19 Tracking App
- NHS Medical Database – Launch Delayed
- No sound from a Windows computer
- No, I Don’t Want To Scan Myself
- Of Evernote and Androids
- Of iPhones, Amazon deliveries, and Sticky Notes
- Of Taskbars and Screensavers and Re-boots
- Of Toggles and Missing Favorites
- Office 365 Re-visited
- Office Document Compatibility
- Offline Backups
- Oh dear – error!
- Oh no, not more IT jokes
- Outlook and File Explorer – sorting on two or more columns
- Outlook files too big?
- Outlook Search – Where Did it Find the Results?
- Over-protective MAC?
- Password checkers
- Password Problems Taken To the Next Level
- Passwords
- Passwords – another reason not to re-use them
- Passwords – with a twist
- Passwords still cause untold grief
- Phubbing
- Pinning Documents to Windows 10 Start Menu
- Play a DVD video on Windows 10
- Plus ça Change….?
- POP and IMAP email
- Portents of Hard Drive Failure
- Pounds (£) and Hashes (#)
- Power Options in Windows
- Powerline Adaptors and Wifi Extenders
- Predictive typing in Word and Windows (10 & 11)
- Prevent Websites From Asking Your Location
- Printer stops working
- Privacy (again!)
- Protect Data when Disposing of a Computer – 1 of 2
- Protect Data when Disposing of a Computer – 2 of 2
- Protecting Data when Disposing of a Computer
- Putting hyperlinks into emails and other documents
- QR Codes
- Re-booting
- Re-installing Windows
- Re-visiting some previous blog posts
- Reading – On-screen Problems and Solutions
- Recommendations – Hearty and Otherwise
- Recovering Data Files in Dropbox
- Reducing Online Shopping Risks
- Reducing Windows 10 Notifications
- Remember the camera on your phone
- Removing item grouping in “open” dialog boxes
- Renaming Multiple Files in Windows
- Renaming Multiple Files on a Mac
- Replace Windows XP
- Resetting Windows
- Rows and Columns
- Running and Saving Downloads
- Saving a Copy of Gmail Data
- Saving a Screenshot to a File in Windows
- Saving a Webmail Contacts List
- Saving and Viewing Passwords in your Browser
- Screen Inversion
- SD Memory Cards
- Send A File
- Sending “Auto Reply” Email Messages
- Sharing Folders in Dropbox
- Shopping in London for Computer Stuff
- Should I buy a colour laser printer?
- Should I change to a Mac?
- Should I get a new computer?
- Should I Upgrade to Windows 10?
- Should I Wait for Windows 8?
- Should you buy Microsoft Office or subscribe to it?
- Should you charge your phone overnight?
- Should you leave backup drives connected?
- Should you Save Passwords in your Browser?
- Shouty Emails
- Sizing Digital Images
- Snapping and Snipping
- Snippets
- Some Antivirus Concepts – 1 of 2
- Some Antivirus Concepts – 2 of 2
- Some Chrome Basics
- Some Easy Refinements in “Google Search”
- Some Follow-Ups
- Some Mac Commands for a PC Person
- Something Missing
- Spear Phishing
- Spectre and Meltdown – should you worry?
- Speeding up an iPhone
- SSDs are not “go faster” Hard Drives
- SSL and HTTPS
- Startup Items and Msconfig
- Stationery Pad – silly name, useful feature
- Sticky Notes – simply done
- Stop your Browser from Trying to Save Passwords
- Stuck with Windows XP (for now)?
- Styles in Microsoft Word – an Introduction
- Suspicious Popup Messages
- Switching Between Windows
- System Image Backups
- Tablet vs Netbook
- Talking to Your Computer
- TalkTalk blocks Teamviewer
- Taming the Bits of Paper
- Telecomms – Indian-style
- Telephone Scam
- Temporary Office Files
- The App Library in IOS14
- The bells, the bells
- The Binary Chop
- The Cookie Law
- The Etiquette of Mobile Devices
- The Function Keys (updated Sep 2023)
- The Glass Seems Half Full to Me
- The iPhone 5 is here
- The iPhone Keyboard
- The Paperless Office
- The PC is 30 years old
- Time for a new iPad?
- Time to un-install Java
- Too little space
- Touchpad (Trackpad) Gestures in Windows 10
- Touchscreens
- TP-Link Smart Wifi Plug – Easy and Inexpensive
- Treepad
- TreeSize Free
- Trouble with User Settings
- TrueCrypt
- Trusteer Rapport – more trouble than it’s worth?
- Turn It Off Or Leave It On?
- Two Really Useful Windows 7 Applets
- Two Years of Blog Posts
- Under the Desk
- Uninstall a program in Windows (and Mac OSX)
- Uninstalling Windows Software
- Updates – don’t you just love them?
- Updates and Upgrades
- Updating an iPhone
- Updating Malwarebytes Free
- Upgrade to Windows 11?
- US government snooping? What about UK Snoopers Charter?
- USB Matters
- USB-C
- Use “Quick Parts” in Word to re-use pieces of text
- Use a browser to open pdf files
- Useful Improvement to Internet Explorer 11
- Using a Mac or PC laptop with the lid closed
- Using AutoCorrect in Microsoft Word
- Using passwords for multiple accounts
- Version History in OneDrive
- View LinkedIn profiles anonymously
- VPNs
- Wacom Bamboo Slate
- Warm enough for you?
- Was the Sony Tablet Worth Buying?
- Weblink Miscellany
- Website Frustrations
- Were you caught in the Uber Hack?
- What Are Captchas?
- What are Libraries in Windows 7 and 8?
- What does “USB” mean?
- What if your email service closes?
- What is “Do Not Track”?
- What is “Juice Jacking” and should it bother you?
- What is a spreadsheet?
- What is a VPN and do you need one?
- What is File Compression?
- What is NFC?
- What pages open when you start Chrome?
- WhatsApp on an iPad
- When is a Gb not a Gb and why doesn’t it matter?
- Which program opens a file?
- Who needs Word?
- Why Does Email Bounce?
- Why does Internet Service Provider Support seem so Bad?
- Why log out of web pages?
- Why mourn the lost Start button – 2
- Why mourn the lost Start button in Windows 8?
- Why would I want a Tablet PC or an iPad?
- Wi-Fi 6
- WiFi and 3G
- Wifi Router Passwords – Revisited
- Will Computers Change Us?
- Will Mac’s Time Machine Always Keep Your Files?
- Windows “run commands”
- Windows 10 – Coming Soon
- Windows 10 – like it or lump it
- Windows 10 – Start Programs at Startup
- Windows 10 Default Programs
- Windows 10 Fast Startup
- Windows 10 Free Upgrade Offer in its last 3 Months
- Windows 10 Free Upgrade Offer WILL end on 29/07/2016 (supposedly)
- Windows 10 Keylogger
- Windows 10 Lock Screen
- Windows 10 Lock Screen
- Windows 10 Programs and Apps Self-starting after Reboot
- Windows 10 Recovery Drive
- Windows 10 Storage Sense Could Delete Your Downloads
- Windows 10 Technical Preview
- Windows 10 Update – How to Stop It
- Windows 10 Updates
- Windows 10 Virtual Desktops
- Windows 10 WiFi Sense
- Windows 11 – first look
- Windows 11 – the story so far
- Windows 11 File Explorer tabs
- Windows 11 Unbroken
- Windows 11 will be available from 5th October 2021
- Windows 7 Jump Lists
- Windows 8 File History
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8.1 – part deux
- Windows 8.1 End of Support
- Windows 8.1 Release
- Windows and Desktop in Windows 7
- Windows Character Map
- Windows Clipboard History
- Windows Control Panel – and how to find it
- Windows Restore Points
- Windows Support Lifecycles
- Windows XP Not Yet Fading Away
- Wireless Internet Connections
- Won over by the iPhone
- Word – Changing Options
- XP Creaking On
- You guessed – IT Jokes
- Zen Internet – The Best ISP