sa 18 Dec
2021 |   A month or so back there was an operating system update for Apple iPhones of some 4Gbyte in size. Here on a 16Gbyte of memory iPhone some apps had to be temporarily removed so the update could install. LEARNT: Even if you don't pig out on photies and music a bit more memory on a smartphone can be useful.
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fr 15 Oct
2021 | Friend of nearthecoast Peter Brockett has a four year old Microsoft Surface and it's incompatible with Windows 11. Gratifyingly he agrees with us and Tom's Guide, wait and see. |
mo 11 Oct
2021 | .png "Browser windows side by side") On a second monitor we wanted to easily put two browser windows side by side. We found the easiest way was to use the Windows key with the cursor control keys ← → ↑ ↓, try it, it's fun.
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th 23 Sep
2021
Windows 11 | The free Windows 11 upgrade is due 5 October. To check compatibility on a maybe five year old HP workstation we downloaded and installed Microsoft's PC Health Check. To download Health Check scroll to the bottom of the bloated Windows 11 page. Our workstation failed on incompatible cpu and even after a BIOS upgrade Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. Isn't necessarily game over though ... we'll wait and see. |
we 1 Sep
2021 | .png "News and interests ... allegedly") After a Windows update a while back a new icon appeared on the task bar to the left of the system tray. We found it popped up an annoyingly large window whenever the mouse pointer strayed near the icon. It was surprisingly easy to get rid of, right click on the task bar then News and interests and then Turn off, that'll do it.
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fr 9 Jul
2021 | We find this keyboard shortcut useful to reduce distraction when doing something non-digital at a pc especially as our ... more here |
mo 17 May
2021 | .png "Junk E-mail Options...") Spamfighter has stopped working unless we buy. We were happy to pay but not a yearly subscription so uninstalled it. After a bit we realised we now had to restart our email client's spam filter, in our version of Outlook go Actions/ Junk E-mail Options... |
we 21 Apr
2021 | This hadn't occurred to us, use capitals in your hashtags #LikeThis so screen readers can pronounce the words, thanks Robin Paley York. |
fr 26 Mar
2021 | .png "Scam email") Today we got both a scam text and a scam email pretending to be Royal Mail about the same fictional delivery. DON'T click on the links but if you hover your mouse over the links in the email you'll see the web addresses are nothing to do with Royal Mail. |
tu 23 Mar
2021 | Life Skills 38 : The first law of electronics is It's always the lead; the second law is the same as the first. The cable bending where ... more here |
mo 15 Feb
2021 |  Don't know why it's taken us years to trip over this. In Windows 10 photo viewer double click on an image and it zooms up, hold and drag to move the image about, and double click again to zoom back ... l♥ve it.
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su 24 Jan
2021 | Most writers find it difficult to edit themselves so here are some useful tips from Gemma Arrowsmith on how to get the page count down. |
th 10 Dec
2020 | Windows 10 feature update 20H2 this morning had two cracks at installing and prompted a .NET update. Unsurprisingly the feature update suggests using Microsoft's browser, search engine and a free try of 365 so you can pay for it later. |
su 6 Dec
2020 | Inevitably we don't like Facebook 's new makeover. Particularly frustrating is the option to change the order of an album's photos seems to have gone. |
th 22 Oct
2020 | We're back on Twitter and it only took four days ... it's taken us months to get a dental appointment. |
tu 20 Oct
2020 | If you inadvertently put the camera on the iPhone in your pocket into panorama mode it soon becomes a very acceptable hand warmer. |
sa 26 Sep
2020 | With our Apple devices we often remove the sense when typing by not noticing autosuggest has changed something. Despite this we've turned autosuggest+ on for Windows 10 ... we'll let you know how it goes ... |
mo 19 Oct
2020 | Embarrassingly our Twitter account has been locked. When we opened the account we were still at junior school and the software ... more here |
fr 18 Sep
2020 | New to Freeview Sky Arts is on channel 11 which was Pick. Pick is now on channel 34 and no, we don't know what was on channel 34 before. |
tu 8Sep
2020 | If you receive an unexpected and perhaps unexplained parcel (it happens a lot at this end of Stately Terrace) it may be a brushing scam but it doesn't mean you've been hacked. |
we 24 Jun
2020 |  If you go through the online process to return an eBay item, get to the end and then want to go back to the beginning to change the reason for return DON'T click Cancel. If you cancel a return you can't start another one for the same item.
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Spamfighter has stopped working unless we buy. We were happy to pay but not a yearly subscription so uninstalled it. After a bit we realised we now had to restart our email client's spam filter, in our version of Outlook go Actions/Junk E-mail Options...
Today we got both a scam text and a scam email pretending to be Royal Mail about the same fictional delivery. DON'T click on the links but if you hover your mouse over the links in the email you'll see the web addresses are nothing to do with Royal Mail.
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