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  • Home Tech support - the secret's out

    We have often joked in the past that our biggest competition in the world of home IT support is actually the clued-up family member.
  • Handy iPhone keyboard tips

    Quick Friday post: from the easy creation of accented letters to the ability to change currencies symbols by pressing & holding, here are 10 things to speed up your
  • iPad - a review from 5 days in

    My iPad landed on Sunday 11 April and it has been my constant companion since then. Even non-tech people have probably read 2 or 3 iPad review articles by now so I will try to be brief on the items mentioned by many others. However, here are my top-line pros and cons:

Home Tech support - the secret's out

We have often joked in the past that our biggest competition in the world of home IT support is actually the clued-up family member.

Minute after minute of every day a son at university is called by a harassed mother, or a daughter is sat in front of her Dad's computer to work out why that bloody internet form isn't being accepted.

And now we can exclusively reveal the dark arts these tech-savvy sons & daughters, uncles and cousins are using to solve your problems...

But we promise we can bring a bit more science to it (and we don't have to leave for lectures just as we're about to fix that annoying problem).

Home Tech Support flowchart

Handy iPhone keyboard tips

Quick Friday post: from the easy creation of accented letters to the ability to change currencies symbols by pressing & holding, here are 10 things to speed up your iPhone keyboard results from the excellent blog at labnol.org

"Tip #1: If you want to type special characters with accent marks (like the letter à or è), simply tap and hold the corresponding alphabet key for a while and it will pop-up a list of related accented characters for you to choose from. Don’t release the key before making a selection else the choice will disappear."

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