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Entries for the ‘Quick Tips’ Category

Office 2010 – Sparklines

A couple of months ago we received our copy of Office 2010, so it must be about time we start blogging about it!  Sparklines is a new Excel feature which we’ve been impressed with. Basically they’re miniature charts that fit into a single Excel cell to allow the user to view individual trends at a [...]

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Say No To 0870

The site saynoto0870.com is a genius little website which saves you money!
It offers alternative phone numbers to numbers starting in 0500, 0800, 0808, 0844, 0845, 0870 and 0871…all of which charge you!  These numbers also generally charge you even if you have an all inclusive landline or mobile phone deal, whereas the 01 or 02 [...]

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Disk Cleanup – Vista

We recently wrote a post about performing a ‘Disk Cleanup’ on XP and we thought it would be a good idea to do one for Vista too! Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive. [...]

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Disk Cleanup – XP

Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems.  It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive.  Therefore, it’s worth performing a cleanup every so often.  The feature searches and reviews your hard drive for files which are no longer necessary.  It will then, after you’ve made [...]

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Image Resizer for Windows 7 and Vista

Just over 1 1/2 years ago we wrote a post titled ‘Quick Tip – Resize Multiple Images Quickly‘.  One of the programs we mentioned in the blog only worked for machines running XP.  However, a company called CodePlex have adapted the software so it can be used for Windows 7 and Vista machines!  Here is [...]

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Hoax-Slayer

Hoax-Slayer is a website we discovered a couple of weeks back and a member of our team literally fell in love with it straight away.  Graham described it as a ‘website after my own heart’!  Therefore, I’ve been set the task to let you know what it’s all about!  The description on the Hoax-Slayer website [...]

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Amazing AVG Savings!

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Filemail.com

Have you ever had a problem sending large emails to other people?  Many web-based email accounts have a limit to how many bytes worth of attachments you can send at any one time.  Filemail.com is an online large email sender which resolves this problem.
The service can be used for free (up to 2GB) or can [...]

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Passwords – Keep it quiet!

Today is our last post from our Password series!  It’s always important to treat all your passwords with care.  It’s essential that you do so because you never know who may want get hold of your password or pass phrase until it’s too late!

Reveal – Make sure you keep your passwords away from everyone (even [...]

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Passwords – How not to create a password!

Below are a variety of formulas that people often use to create passwords which are easy to guess and therefore easy to hack!

Sequences – Try not to use sequences of letters or numbers as they are very easy to guess.  E.g, ‘123456789′ or ‘abcdefg’ or ‘ddddddd’
Look-alike – It is always good to use look-alike symbols [...]

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