the Internet

th 13 Jun 2024	In the early days we unwisely used the same easily remembered password for multiple accounts. Then Yahoo a sort of pre-Google search engine got hacked revealing users' passwords. Our Google account has started sending slow to load emails pointing out our vulnerability. If you have a Google account go Manage your Google Account/Review security tips/Your saved passwords to deal with it.
sa 30 Jul 2022	Sending large files by email can be a bit hit or miss. We've found WeTransfer.com very useful, you don't have to open an account, you don't have to pay and your recipient gets an email with a link to download your files zipped into one ... pretty much instantaneous and much less risky than a DVD in the post.
su 1 May 2022	After 25 years the other Alexa (an Amazon company) has retired, Semrush is probably the best substitute.
fr 29 Apr 2022	Facebook have been pratting about with the pix at the top of a page (the cover); it's too big, low res and by default the top half is missing when landing. We dislike it so much we deleted it and FB then replaced it with a grey wilderness. We gave up, laid back and thought of England ... and another thing the associated slideshow editor is buggy, clearly Wayne the work experience kid hasn't been properly supervised.
fr 18 Mar 2022	In January the other Alexa said they were retiring in May but they already seemed to have shuffled off for pub lunches and Croc wearing.
su 6 Mar 2022	The BBC's news mirror web site on the dark web has been running since October 2019. It is a way to access the news in countries where the Beeb is blocked. News is available in Ukrainian and Russian.
tu 1 Feb 2022	Without actually trying it we were pretty sniffy about Wordle ... it's very addictive.
mo 24 Jan 2022	That's very disappointing, the other Alexa (an Amazon company) is being retired in May. Semrush is probably the best substitute.
fr 26 Mar 2021	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 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.
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:)
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.
tu 24 Sep 2019	Oh poo, flickr have started putting adverts in when flicking through a free account photostream and in the Martlesham Tesco a couple of weeks back there was a £20 personal cassette/radio with built in speaker and mike ... cassettes eh?
th 16 May 2019	Here in what was the industrial South of Framlingham the broadband has been down for some 20 hours. If you're getting Internet on your mobile phone you may be able to use the phone as a modem for your computer. It's might be called tethering or possibly hotspot. Use your mobile to Google using <mymobilephone> as a modem. If you succeed your computer will be using your mobile's data allowance.
fr 4 Jan 2019	A bit techie but if you have your own web site this might be interesting. We hadn't visited Google's PageSpeed Insights for quite a while. Today we discovered it's had a major makeover, doesn't optimise graphics anymore and it looks like Lighthouse buried in the Chrome browser is more useful. (Lighthouse didn't like our robots.txt file but 100 speed score.) Yes, we're confused too.
th 20 Dec 2018	This week we ordered an Amazon Basics USB lead, when it arrived we'd ordered the wrong thing. Shall we bother sending it back? Decided yes more out of principle than financial gain. Went through the return process and at the end Amazon said they'd refunded our credit card but we didn't need to send the lead back ... Merry Christmas eh?
tu 4 Dec 2018	Amazon have sent us a card inviting us to try a second 30 day free trial with a letter telling us we won't believe the changes they've made. Hopefully this time they wouldn't start charging our credit card without warning.
sa 16 Jun 2018	That Mr Google has been not very nice to us over the past couple of years so when we received a letter (a letter not an email) from him this morning we thought maybe he was worried he'd offended us ... no, he was suggesting that if we give him £120 he might be a bit nicer to us.
sa 2 Jun 2018	Our previous BT router had a useful pull out thingy on the top with the logon details. When we got our new and present router the useful thingy on the top had gone, What a pity we thought. We moved the new router last week and discovered there's still a useful thingy but it's on the side.
fr 23 Mar 2018	Five years ago we didn't bother backing up to BT's Cloud as it didn't retain the source file structure. Given time even mega organisations sort themselves out (Microscoft and the web for example) and the BT Cloud does now retain file structure plus we're getting 200Gig compared with the free 15Gig from Google ... but then we're giving BT money. It's worth looking at the settings to stop it doing annoying things at start up.
th 28 Sep 2017	It's taken three attempts for BT to actually dispatch a router/hub, hopefully it will arrive today. Worth tracking online and complaining sooner rather than later, we complain via the online chat.
fr 25 Aug 2017	pc tips/the Internet has spawned a social media page.

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