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 |
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 | |
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 from this pop up. 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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tu 9 Jun
2020 | We've always found it irritating that when you delete (or move) a link in the Chrome browser bookmarks pulldown it closes the pullldown. To do more than one change open the Bookmark manager with Ctrl + Shift + O (that's Oh not zero). In what seems like some slightly mad recursion you can save the Bookmark manager as a bookmark ... |
mo 6 Apr
2020 | When Windows 10 fired up this morning it offered to make our life better.jpg "Link your phone and PC") by selling us Office 365 for eighty quid a year and linking our mobile to the pc. We thought it could make our life better by leaving us alone but despite this perhaps foolishly gave it our mobile number for linking. After texts/passwords/verifications we now have Microsoft's Edge browser on our iPhone ... we'll let you know if our life gets any better. |
tu 24 Mar
2020 | Sunday we had our first virtual dinner London-Dorset-Framlingham-Zurich via application Zoom and an iPad. Quite touching to see and hear Lady KRJ's two little boys chattering and eating spaghetti. Helps if you can get your device a little away, it puts you in context:) |
th 30 Jan
2020 | The BBC red button text service didn't switch off today. After a petition from the National Federation of the Blind the decision will be reviewed in the spring ... though the red button itself doesn't seem to know this yet. |
su 19 Jan
2020 |  Useful keyboard shortcut is Windows + E which pops up file explorer with Frequent folders and Recent files ... go on, try it.
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mo 30 Dec
2019 |   We find in the morning the BBC red button text service a succinct way of checking that the world is still going to hell in a handcart. Regrettably the text service is closing 30 January. We've tried the Beeb's news app but it's a bit tabloid for our taste ... Nine things you didn't know about that there Ed Sheraton. ♫
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sa 14 Dec
2019 | .jpg "Laptop Windows 10 upgrade") We upgraded an aging laptop to Windows 10 from aging media. It was a bit of a struggle but in the end leaving it alone to sort itself out sorted it out. It then kept failing during update. The Internet thought the problem was an elderly version of Win10 and it should be ... more here
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fr 1 Nov
2019 |  We have friends who were living down an unmade road between Dennington and Stradbroke. Their dish washer overheated and filled the house with thick smoke. They heard the fire engine siren approach the end of the road ... and then go away. The what3words app would have helped. It divides the world into a grid of three metre squares and assigns each a unique three word address. We hadn't worked out even a modest house will have more than one address.
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