Google has always provided a generous amount of free online storage, but these days it is easy to exceed your allowance and the price of additional storage space used to be expensive. However, Google has slashed its prices and it is now cheaper than ever.
There are two things missing from Windows 8.1 and the Start menu is the obvious one and this makes accessing programs that are installed more difficult than it used to be. The other missing item is libraries, but you may not have noticed because they were nowhere near as popular as the much loved Start… Read More
It sometimes seems like you cannot publish anything on the web these days unless it has an image embedded into it. Some sites appear to make this rule, leading to crazy situations where the image is irrelevant to the article because the author couldn’t find one that fit in with the text. Now there is… Read More
Your Linux distro probably comes with a text editor, but the bundled one is often very basic. With Gnome-based distros for example, you often get Gedit and while it is OK for simple tasks, it doesn’t have a lot of features. An alternative is Geany, which is a powerful, yet lightweight editor for plain text… Read More
Although some people have truly unlimited broadband internet access, a lot of people don’t. Bandwidth may be limited at certain times of the day, such as during peak hours in the evening. Even internet accounts advertised as unlimited occasionally aren’t, as you will discover if you try to download an unlimited number of files. This… Read More
Most people don’t have a problem with Windows Update and it works fine, downloading essential updates in the background and automatically installing them when you shut down or restart. Sometimes though, Windows Update gets in a muddle and it may not download one or more of the updates offered, it might stop part way through… Read More
Everyone knows that it is important to have anti virus and anti spyware software on their Windows computer. It just isn’t safe to browse the internet without it. By and large, most people do have security software on their computer, whether it is a free package or one that they have paid for. Sometimes though,… Read More