fr 17 Jan
2025 |  In a lifetime of laughter and tears we've encountered picture editing being done in Excel and web design in PowerPoint. Google research may show a prog more suitable for your project, not Microscoft and maybe even free.
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we 30 Oct
2024 | The BT Cloud will close tomorrow so probably a good idea to download your stuff before then. Other free services are available. |
th 13 Jun
2024 | .png "You have security tips") 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.
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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.
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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 | .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 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 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.
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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?
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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. |
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.
