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Did you know you can easily insert emojis in to your emails, documents, messages, and elsewhere using your Windows computer? To access the Windows 10 emoji picker, press either of the following two shortcut combinations: Windows Key + Period / Full Stop (.) Windows Key + Semicolon (;) Typing either of these keyboard shortcuts will bring up an inline emoji picker, complete with search field. To find an emoji, you can either scroll through the list, use the category icons at th

There are a number of places who will buy your old tech gadgets for cash (or a discount off new kit). Be careful though. Many of these give you a headline price online, but then when you send your device in they revise their offer to a much-reduced price, citing some minor imperfection. We have used O2 Recycle on a number of occasions and find the prices offered to be fair and the service to be generally reliable. O2 Recycle Trade in mobiles, tablets, wearables and more. Pric

Con men are nothing new. They’ve been nicking the tiles of our roofs since, well, since we started putting tiles on roofs. No matter how many people there are in the world, it seems to be a biological fact that a proportion of them will be inveterate scammers. But the Internet has given them the power and sophistication to pull the wool over people’s eyes in ever more dastardly ways. Over three million scams succeed each year in the UK alone, costing an estimated £3.3billion.

What's happened? Microsoft are deprecating Basic authentication in Exchange Online which may affect your Microsoft 365 email accounts. ​...

It's amazing how many people still don’t back up their computers. Your hard drive is likely to contain irreplaceable precious family photos, documents, music, videos and emails. Imagine them all now – gone forever. What would you lose? Let's clear up a few things: ALL HARD DRIVES ARE DESTINED TO FAIL. It’s just a matter of when. Some take many years, others fail much sooner, but it WILL happen. A backup is a DUPLICATE COPY of your data to a SEPARATE location (NOT copied to t

Almost everyone uses Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). If you pay an annual subscription to Microsoft 365 for your Office software (as most people do), then you also have other benefits included which you may not be aware of. One of these is OneDrive, which gives you 1TB of cloud storage through Microsoft (1TB is 1000GB). OneDrive works by installing a small application which creates a ‘OneDrive’ folder on your computer. Any files you store in here are

Laptops are becoming more popular than ever, since they take up less space and you can use them anywhere. One thing you may not have considered is what happens if the laptop gets stolen, or accidentally left somewhere when you’re out and about. What data is on there? Is it sensitive? If it’s used for work, would the company have to report a data security breach? “But I’ve got a password on my laptop” I hear you say. This in itself is not enough. Anyone with basic computer ski

Did you know that you can synchronize the information contained in your web browsers across multiple computers and mobile devices? The information that you can sync can be some or all of the following: Bookmarks / Favourites Browsing History Saved Passwords Autofill Data Browser Extensions Themes Settings The two main browsers which support this are Firefox and Google Chrome. You simply install the program, setup an account, and select the information you wish to sync. Then g

What are your New Year’s resolutions? Improve your work-life balance? Worry less? Relax more? Good plan. So you want to make sure you’re not spending the year worrying about your IT. You can achieve that peace of mind by making sure you’re observing the three golden rules of IT: back up, update and secure. Make this your New Year’s resolution and it’ll be good for your business and good for you. Beef up your backups There’s nothing more frustrating than losing a vital piece o

Stop anyone in the street and ask them what a domain name is and, once you’ve overcome the awkward exchange that usually follows when you...

Online criminals are attempting to blackmail unsuspecting victims by claiming to have used the victims’ password to install spying...

Mesh WiFi is a newish kind of WiFi system which replaces WiFi extenders. Traditional WiFi extenders can only communicate with your main...