Dear Geek, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend to Husband and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend. In addition, Husband uninstalled many other valuable programmes, such as Romance and Personal Attention and then installed undesirable programs such as Rugby, Football, Sailing …
Dear Geek, My old PC is getting slower and slower but I don’t want to buy a new one. New PCs have lots of memory – would an external drive help? Hampered of Herne Bay.
All over breakfast at the rather lovely Whitstable Castle. It seems like every day there’s another networking event or breakfast club popping up. Whether it’s a group of people chatting over coffee, exchanging business cards to make mini appointments in a speed dating style, small town events or county wide socials, they all claim to …
£19,000 of business passed over breakfast in Whitstable? That’s netWORKing! Read More »
In this job – computer repair in case you’d forgotten – you tend to see a lot of progress bars. Those little blue or green lines that slowly, sometimes oh so slowly, mark the progress of whatever task you are doing at the time. Sometimes they fly by, sometimes they are slow but don’t hog …
The clock ticks ever closer to 4th January and the impending VAT increase. According to some, this little 2.5% increase will cost families an extra £389 per year – VAT Rise ‘Will Cost Families £389 A Year’ – Sky News Of course, there’s every chance you won’t see much of a difference, just like when …
Merry Christmas to all our followers, Facebook fans and customers…
A few months ago, a client came to us because she was having trouble with her website. The Problem She loved the design, the look suited her and her business perfectly. She just couldn’t update it. It had been set up as a CMS so that she could, in theory, change it whenever she liked. …
This morning I received an email from BT Business Broadband informing me of some changes to their terms and conditions. Pretty typical email that most people would ignore. For some reason I decided to read it and now I’m fuming!
Dear Geek, As a Virtual Personal Assistant, I need a reliable internet connection, so my broadband router is in my office next to my PC. Everywhere else in the house has a weak wireless signal – is there any way to make it better? I want to be an Office Hound, not officebound. Trapped of …
A few days ago I recommended the product TuneUp Utilities 2011 and gave a link to a special offer that meant you could save £7.50 off the price. The day before that, I recommended using Amazon to do your Christmas shopping. Little honesty bit here: yes, if you clicked on one of the links and …