SyncPlaylist by OpenView Design

Cutting straight to the chase, SyncPlaylist is a tiny piece of software that works in Windows systems that enable you to create playlists for a USB drive that you use in your car. SyncPlaylist will also enable creation of playlists that work straight off the USB drive.  So if you’re carrying music to a house … Read more

Online Backup for WordPress

Backing up of data on a computer is one thing but backing up of a website such as this one and it’s database is another. Websites do crash and even with the best security are vulnerable to attacks from hackers or to host server failures. Whilst these events are extremely rare, the consequences can be … Read more

Dummies to suffer even more

As the 3rd May 2012 approaches, there is a greater chance that a whole load of dummies are gonna be ripped off here in Britain. What’s so special about 3rd May, you may be wondering and scratching your head. Well, Samsung having rocketed to pole position as world leader in mobile phone sales (beating back … Read more

Two great addons for Gmail users.

Say you want to set up for an email to be sent at a certain time, in the future, but you don’t want the hassle of having to remember or do this manually. Say you’re a control freak or a pretend one and you really need to know when your ‘victim’ opens your email that … Read more

Google email trick

I’m a shameless walking talking advert for anything Google. I mean Google is about the most secure high quality and free email service you can find.

So, I’m about to show you a cool trick – how to send and receive emails on a non-google email account using google email (aka gmail). This is a good idea cuz you get all the goodness of google’s other features and you keep your favoured email address. Now calm down – you don’t need to be an IT geek to do this. Really! Okay.. have a panic attack and after that settle down on this. I’ll assume you have set up and are logged into your gmail console online. Sorry – hardly anybody respectable in the real world uses email clients such as Outlook any more. Tough! You should feel ashamed of yourself – really. Smile

Look to the extreme right of your gmail console. You should see something like that to the right. Click the settings button as shown.

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The wonders of Google Calendars

I don’t carry a paper diary. I therefore don’t have to worry about reaching for pen and diary or about losing a diary. All my activities are recorded on Google Calendars which live on Google and on my Android HCD (aka handheld computing device). If I lose the HCD by some stroke of misfortune, I will still have access to all of my agenda. In addition – I can tell from my phone what I was doing or where I was two or three years ago, if I need to – and sometimes I do have to check for business reasons. My HCD is automatically synchronised to my Google cal via the internet.

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You’re about to get a panic attack, because you can’t see what’s on that image to the left. Please click on it with your mouse for a much larger view.

You’ll have another panic attack as it will appear a confused mess and ‘all so complicated’. It isn’t!

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Dummies soon to shed tears!!

Yep – this is the news for those caught out by the Dummy Market! You, not knowing yourselves will be in tears if/when you see the Samsung Galaxy S3!! I’m punching the air about this. In my write up of the comparison of S2 vs Iphone4 in August 2011, I had concluded that S1 was … Read more

Kindle without Kindle!

To most people Kindle is an A5 sized electronic device (left) that holds ebooks and other e-content. What I have discovered is that most people I’ve met don’t know that you can read Kindle content on computers and mobile phones. In fact Amazon Kindle allows you to install their Kindle Software on several devices and … Read more

Stupidity of the Rock order!

Another Rockian’s email account is hacked.. and spewing porn adverts at me. Well I guess it’s not just a Rockian thing. Dohtishness and laziness flourishess outside of the Rock too. Everybody goes “Oooooh.. but I had a really strong password” and in my mind I say “Bollocks!!”. The guidance from Wikipedia is good (and is … Read more