What is Facebook?
On their website, www.facebook.com, Facebook describes itself as ‘a social utility that connects you with the people around you,’ which pretty much sums it up, Facebook is a website for socializing and browsing. By socializing I mean commenting and playing games with friends, and by browsing I mean looking at pictures and [...]
For years I have not found a decent backup utility but over the last 20months I came across two, they are like London buses, you wait ages and none come and then there they are…all in a line
Memeo and SecondBackup are the utilities and I will look at them separately as they are [...]
You may have read on the Brandstar Blog many reviews about the latest version of Microsoft Office (2007). But some people want an alternative, either because the cost of Office can’t be warranted for their purposes or because they just want something that isn’t Microsoft.
A pretty brilliant piece of software called OpenOffice exists and is [...]
The BBC website has to be one of the biggest sites from the UK offering everything from News, TV, Radio, Sport and Weather but my view is that it’s a fairly dull and boring site. Useful for checking the football news but that is about it, certainly not a replacement for my interactive, useful and [...]
You can really tell when it is Christmas with sites like this appearing! Elf Yourself…the site allows you to upload photos of 4 friends/family or colleagues and position them correctly so they are the face of an Elf and then once you are finished you can watch your friends dance!! :) It is quite good [...]
So Christmas is near and playing solitaire is becoming more and more frequent as you think about the Christmas shopping you should be doing on Amazon How about an alternative to Solitaire? A game that has been around for years is Elf Bowling and it is very addictive. Version 1 saw Santa bowling [...]
I thought it would be good to start blogging here with a list of some very useful support sites and forums that we have used in the past (or in some cases still do use) to help solve problems we come across. So if you haven’t found the answer to your question by searching google [...]
Hello and Welcome
PcToolbox is a site linked with Brandstar UK and managed by their Technical Director Graham Martin (Me!). The aim of the site is to offer some techie blogs that are hopefully aimed at non-techies. Written for all to understand, highlighting the key information about the subject without going into [...]
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