It’s more secure and better practice to not just have your computer log on automatically. Ideally, for security reasons, you should install a BIOS password too – but that may be a step too far for some people. Instead, you can just add that extra layer of security by not running your system as the [...]
If you’re selling your PC, donating it someone else or sending it to a charity – or even if you’re scrapping it, you should make sure that the system is 100% clean of every trace of data that could be used by someone less scrupulous. There are paid solutions out there to achieve this – [...]
What are job aggregators? They’re online services that trawl through the Internet, locating and indexing jobs from job boards and employers according to the niches or geographies in which they operate. They’ve been around for a while – and almost all of them make the claim of having the most jobs, being the largest job [...]
What is a favicon? It’s one of those little images that sits up in the address bar next to the web address. They’re really good for branding and help create an association between your web site, your logo and your overall styling. There’s a good tool out there to help convert everyday images into favicon’s. [...]
Why would you want to buy an expensive PC from the likes of PC World or Dell, when you can use a specialist, custom PC builder to produce a more powerful, better specification machine – and all for less money?! After my old desktop PC started literally falling apart at the seams, I decided it [...]
It’s surprisingly easier than I thought it would be – and after a quick search with our friend Google, I found the answer. In versions of WordPress after 2.7, there’s a new option that’s been added to make posts sticky. It’s not in the full add or edit post option, but when you go to [...]
Without doubt, my best experience of a reliable, low-cost, feature packed hosting company has to be Host Gator. Yes, they’re US based, but so what? Apart from the billing process being prone to currency fluctuations, they’re just ultra reliable and very helpful if you ever have any problems. I’ve used them for plenty of years [...]
So this web site is now a handy place for me to keep everything that I do online ordered and accessible, as well as test various online technologies and functionality. My skills and experience includes: Marketing – strategic & tactical marketing plans, advertising, etc. Business & organisational health checks Web design – HTML, PHP, Joomla, [...]
The voucher part of this site is better than a lot of the other ones out there – and the aggregated information about different financial deals are also among the best. The TV adverts might not have the same catchiness of their competitors, but that aside, they’re the market leader within their sector in terms [...]
There are loads of free themes available out there – some that look very professional with some excellent features and some that are, by comparison, amateurish. However, not all of these self-billed premium themes are all they seem to be. Often they can include encrypted text and/or embedded links – so it’s worth checking these [...]