Observations on the world and its inhabitants
This is not an advertisement! This is only about me sharing knowledge of something very useful. It is called Roboform. Immediately some fool somewhere wants to know whether it is free. ‘Everybody’ wants ‘everything’ for free innit. Well it is not! So if you’re looking for ‘free’ – kindly get lost right NOW! I’ve been ...
Well, for most people I know they don’t care much about this. People often don’t know and therefore don’t care about duplicate files on their computers. I’m not here to cure them – they can remain blissfully ignorant. Those who want to know can read on. Duplicate files happen – that’s a matter of fact. ...
I’ve been using labels and filters on Gmail for quite some time. But like many things you come to appreciate them better with time. So I’ve been reviewing how I use these features. Lately I’ve been flooded with all sorts of emails. Many of them I don’t need to look at immediately, so I didn’t ...
For those who don’t know and are not friends with Google, McAfee is company that makes antivirus and firewall related software. As with most things you’ll always find a following of people who will shout how wonderful things are about ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’. And if you say anything negative about anything, you’re likely to ...
Problem: Media of various types will play though laptop’s speakers but no on inserting headphones. Solution: 1. Control Panel > Sound > Select Headphones. 2. Make headphones default and click ‘ok’. Headphones then play well. Removing headphones allows speakers to play. Yes, why? I dunno why this happens and I don’t care. The only thing ...
Recently purchased this Dell Inspiron 7737. I was aiming to purchase a 15-inch screen laptop but this 17-inch screen laptop deal turned out to be better than any 15-inch laptop I could find (at the time). [AND – this does NOT mean I like DELL or any particular brand. Read Disclaimer at the end.] Important ...
This is only for those who know about music files and playlists. I’ve regularly had the problem when I moved my music from computer to computer, or disc to disc, that my playlists would not work. I mean I have like lots of playlists – so I really didn’t want to make them all over ...
This arrived today from Amazon – much cost £1200. I hadn’t planned to go shopping for a computer. What happened? My regular laptop which I bought in May 2011 from Amazon had been developing a power input problem, then a hinge got broken – not by me (and there’s another story about that). Yes the hinge ...
The first rule of computing is backing up you data. This means keeping a copy of your data in a place where you can recover it. I’ve dealt with backup strategies before. So, this blog is not about that. I’m talking computer backup. This is the software that runs the whole computer and anything that ...
Actually this is about me ‘saving myself’ using Google Drive. What happened? I was searching madly for a file on my computer starting with filename: 2011_12_ that was in a certain folder. It wasn’t there!! Panic was about to set in. Well, I’m exaggerating a bit cuz few things cause me panic. :) Bingo!! Brilliant ...
I’m often asked by so-called friends, family and work-related folk “Which computer is a good buy?” When I go, “I don’t know?” – some look disappointed whilst others take on a look which suggests, “You mean you call yourself an IT expert and you don’t know what computer is best?’ – at which point I ...
Immediately I can expect that people reading this will be further driven to think that I have OCD or that I’m terribly organised and IT proficient etc. I’m not into a debate today, on how people take small pieces of information and build pictures of ‘reality’ in their heads. Today I’m giving a tip, not ...
This is a good IT tip for people who want to save hard disk space, in situations when you have a large file that needs to be in two (or more) folders. Normally if you duplicate a file to another folder in Windows you will use double the space used on your drive. Makes sense, ...
This is a cool free application for Windows based computers. So you left that egg to boil or you have that important appointment coming up. Timeleft will track them in a slightly different way. Countdown timer in Timeleft tracks my boiling egg, while Reminder in Timeleft will tells me how much time ahead in years, ...
Well tonight I had an interesting experience. I go into the local supermarket around 20:45. There’s a worker in uniform at the entrance offering me free bread. It comes with a coupon that I use at the cashier to get it for FREE. So I say thank you very much and with some glee take ...
I like Google Calendar. The people who invented this really put a lot of thought behind it. It took me about a year to get using it regularly. I now wish I hadn’t taken that long. Here’s how it benefits me: I can store my agenda securely online. I can have several agendas, some that ...
The £15 Anthropic Fuel Plan: complete with digital range anxiety
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