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Adding email accounts to your Windows computer

Posted on05/11/202005/11/2020Leave a comment

These days a lot of people have more than one email account and often only check them on their phone or maybe in a browser. A very common issue is, let’s say you have a Gmail account, but you only use the browser on your Read More …

CategoriesWindowsTagse-mail, Gmail, Google, iCloud, Mail, Windows 10

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Shut your lid!

Posted on08/11/201908/11/2019Leave a comment

How do I work on my laptop with the lid closed? By that, I mean connected to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse – like a kind of docking station. In this situation, it’s nice to have the lid closed so that it’s not distracting Read More …

CategoriesTips, WindowsTagsClose, docking station, external monitor, laptop, lid, shut, Windows 10

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E-mailing Links

Posted on24/02/201925/02/2019Leave a comment

Links are a great way to connect people with content. But how do you do mail a link to someone, and how do you make them look nice? By “nice”, I mean not some great big horrible tech mess like this: Let’s deal with the Read More …

CategoriesiOS/Apple Mac, Outlook, Tips, WindowsTagsiOS, Links, Mac, Mac Mail, Outlook

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Putting your Photos in iCloud

Posted on13/02/201913/02/2019Leave a comment

Fancy having your photo collection available everywhere? Yes, of course you do. The good news is, that now it’s possible with iCloud to share your photo collection between all the devices you have and keep them available all the time. And now that most people Read More …

CategoriesiOS/Apple Mac, WindowsTagsiCloud, iOS, Mac, MacOS, photos, videos, Windows

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Messing with your Start Menu…

Posted on05/11/201809/02/2019Leave a comment

…sometimes you need to switch things round a bit! The Windows Start Menu is often overlooked. There is so much you can do to get it organised so it suits you really well. Of course, you either click in the bottom-left corner or press the Read More …

CategoriesTips, Video, WindowsTagscustomising, menu, Start, Windows 10

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Create an e-mail signature in Windows Mail

Posted on09/10/2018Leave a comment

Do you get a bit annoyed that you have to keep typing your name and details at the bottom of an email? It can be very tedious having to type in your phone number, job title, name and all that stuff at the bottom of Read More …

CategoriesTips, WindowsTagsMail, signature, Windows 10

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Run out of Desktop? Create a new one!

Posted on15/06/201809/02/2019Leave a comment

Now in Windows 10 you can make virtual Desktops! It can be annoying when you run out of space on your monitor and need some more open Windows. Luckily though the bods behind Windows 10 have thought of that and you can now create additional Read More …

CategoriesQRG, WindowsTagsDesktop, Task View, Windows 10

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Don’t store it all on the Desktop!

Posted on03/04/201809/02/2019Leave a comment

Do you have a Windows Desktop like this? During my training days, I saw this a lot. Files and folders all stacked with content and placed on the desktop either in some sort of order (that meant something to the user) or just some random order, (like the Read More …

CategoriesBasic IT, Demo, WindowsTagsDesktop, Files, Folders

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What version have you got?

Posted on02/10/201709/02/2019Leave a comment

Knowing the version, helps you when you talk to IT… So many problems we have on our computing devices stems from version of software we have. Whatever that software is – Operating System or Program. Operating System? This is the software that drives our device. Read More …

CategoriesDemo, iOS/Apple Mac, Tips, WindowsTagsApple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mac, version, Windows

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Windows on a Mac? Go Virtual!

Posted on05/09/201706/09/2017Leave a comment

Switching to a Mac can be great, until something doesn’t run! I don’t regret shifting to the Apple platform when I did in 2006. Windows was pretty awful then, and my children’s computer was playing up daily. I hated coming home from work to the Read More …

CategoriesiOS/Apple Mac, WindowsTagsVirtual Machine, VMWare, Windows, Windows 10

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