Night, night computer

When you’ve rushed out and forgotten to send your computer to sleep there are a couple of clever ways to do this remotely – one for Macs and one for PCs using Windows. The Mac sleeping ‘pill’ You’ll need three simple tools – an app called Drafts, a Dropbox account and...

How to keep your website up-to-date

A website that never changes is less and less likely to be ranked by the search engines.  When the spiders visit they look for fresh material and if nothing has changed the time before their next visit lengthens.  This is one reason why it makes sense to have your...

HTML for dummies!

If you’ve got a website that uses HTML (like WordPress) it can be useful to understand the basic programming commands so you don’t need to call in your web support people if you accidentally delete something and your layout goes wonky (a technical term!) Step one is...

Are you getting what you’re paying for?

When you sign up to a broadband deal you’ll find suppliers will be trying to entice you with promises of ‘super-fast’ download speeds, but how accurate are these numbers they’re spouting? Firstly, take notice of the words immediately before the numbers – are they...