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Password Management

How do you create, manage and secure your passwords? Well, it’s easy. Yep it really is… You want to know the secret?

Your Personal Early Warning System

Would you like to be able to see into the future? Get warned before something goes wrong? Imagine having your own personal IT Guru, watching over your computer, making sure everything is running smoothly…well now you can!

Does the NSA own GCHQ?

Ok, so a bit of hyperbole in the title to get you going…but the US government appears to be handing over huge sums of money to GCHQ – you have to ask, what are they getting in return? If it was me, I’d want the keys to the safe! So what is it, exactly, that we give […]

De Clutter Your Desktop!

Years ago, my desktop used to look like a war zone! I had every conceivable icon, shortcut and document  ‘machine gunned’ all over the place – it was a sort of organised chaos. Then came the ‘transparency’ craze, which still appears to be prominent – if film evidence is anything to go by, where police ‘techs’ […]

A Journey To The Dark Side

My Move From Microsoft to Google I’ve been more than a decade on the Microsoft platform, both as an end-user and technical support guru. But over the last year, I have been looking at cloud computing in-depth, keeping a weather eye on what is and isn’t good about the services on offer. And I have […]

How To Look After Your PC

You do clean your computer, right? Most folk don’t realise that their PC is really just an air filtration unit! PC’s suck dusty air inside the machine, where it collects, mainly, on the motherboard and inside the power supply.

No Photoshop? No Worries!

Just came across Pxlr the other day – working on a machine without Photoshop or The Gimp – and thought I was done for!   But no! This online tool came to my rescue – and very useful it is too: supporting layers, opacity, scaling including a full range of selection and cut and crop […]