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Category: Internet

Customise Safari and ignore that pop up

I am on record as saying that in my opinion Safari is the best web browser. It is the safest and the most secure and, in 99% of cases, will work with any website. In the cases where it fails I use Firefox, do what I need to do on that website and then go …

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Use a chat session instead

Over the last decade or so help desks have been sent overseas. This often means bad and echoey lines of communications and strong accents that are very hard to understand. This is especially true if you are already stressed about your account being hacked, email offline or your bank account frozen. So, just like my …

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Seldom used features

There is nothing more satisfying, but at the same time galling, to find out that something you have been using for years has an awesome feature that you never knew about. Like a hotplate that has a warming function…right there in front of you. If only you’d pressed that little PAUSE button five years earlier. …

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Email bouncing?

No. You are not going mad. Yes. Your emails are getting more bounce backs, ending up on blacklists and your friends haven’t received an email from you in weeks. This is happening to all of us in different ways and in different degrees and it is due to the fight against everyones favourite band of …

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Dangerous scam active right now

We have all seen them. Emails from friends or family that, even with the briefest of glances, appears “off” But we get lazy and answer them. Or in the case of a spam email that offers an Unsubscribe button, get angry and unsubscribe and add an insulting note as to why we don’t want to …

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