These are some of our tips. Lots are time sensitive and are removed when they have expired. Got a good idea for a tip? Please send it our way!

June 2011

If you see anything about 'See who visits your profile!' in FaceBook, either as an email or a link on your wall, just delete it. If you click the link it will post the virus on the wall of everyone you know. The only way to fix this is to visit every friends wall and remove it by hand.

 

May 2011

Have you been sent a document as an image and need to edit it? Try www.free-online-ocr.com Free conversion in minutes!

 

April 2011

from March 2011 your web site must comply with ASA regulations. To help you do this, look at www.cap.org.uk and sign up for the newsletter.

December 2010
If you have an iPhone 4 then upgrade to OS4.2. New feature is 'Find my iPhone'. Allows you to see where your iphone is, send a message, lock it or wipe it if it is stolen. Ask us how.

November 2010
Norton Online Family is an excellent free program that monitors all the internet activity for your kids (or employees!) Simple set up and it doesn't slow the PC down. Have a look at:- https://onlinefamily.norton.com/familysafety/loginStart.fs or call us for advice on other ways to block inappropriate internet activity.

October  2010
Make programs open the size you want. Either
maximise the program or drag it to
the size you require. Press and hold Ctrl and Shift the click the X to close at the top
right. Next time you open it will remember that size.

September 2010

Free PC Lessons for Kids
PC Pro is offering parents and teachers a free download of the magazine's 'Give Your Kids The IT Edge' lessons for 5-15 year olds. It features step-by-step tutorials for each of the school key stages, introducing schoolchildren of all ages to "fun" computing challenges, including how to create a blog using the free Edublogs software, which is used by schools across the country. The guide is a PDF that parents and teachers are free to print out and distribute at home or in schools.
http://short.zen.co.uk/?id=d80

 July 2010
Like to save some money on your shopping? Try FindMeTheCheapest at http://clubhouse.utilitywarehouse.co.uk/index.php?m=discounts&a=cheapest

 June 2010

According to Which? Magazine, Currys Digital and PC World are both in the bottom four shops for customer care and product knowlegde. i2c won best Supplier of the Year from Kingston Chamber of Commerce in March this year. UWC won Which? best Broadband and Phone four year running.

 

March 2010

Want cheap international calls? UWC give free calls to ten popular international destinations if you sign up for gas, electric, phone and broadband. If not in their list, then try www.justcall.co.uk for cheap, no account required international calls.

February 2010

Three things you didn't know you can do with a mouse:-
1. Scroll up and down pages. Press and hold the central mouse wheel down. Double headed arrows appear. Keep holding and now when you move the mouse up and down, the page scrolls.
2. Zoom control. Press and hold Ctrl then move mouse up and down to zoom in and out.
3. When in Internet Explorer, press and hold Shift and then move mouse up and down to go back and forth through recent pages
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 January 2010

Mention i2c for 10% off The Liongate B&B in Somerset. Highly recommended.
www.liongate.com 01935 814741

 

 December 2009

Got a Blackberry? Did you know that you can send a free text message to any other Blackerry user in the world for free using Blackberry Messenger? Go to Blackberry Messenger, enter the recipients Blackberry PIN and off you go. Find you PIN in the status application.

 

 July 2009

Is your Outlook getting bloated and slow? Try LBE Tools to strip out attachments and save them to a seperate folder. Also has contact, email and calendar de-duplicators.

LBE Toolbox