Are Smartphones Really Smart? Perhaps smartphones should be renamed dumbphones due to the dumbing-down of social interaction between humans today. Like any device, a cellphone is a tool like a TV or a PC –they have their places in our lives– but the ubiquitous mobile […]
Change Is Usually Good Most of us have been using the WordPress Classic Editor for years because it’s simply a WYSIWYG page editor which is very easy to use. However, the Classic Editor has always had its drawbacks, principally with regard to the layout of
Tweaking Your Site With Additional CSS As I mentioned in my previous article, How To Become A Webmaster, additional CSS can be added in WordPress to override settings that are coded in the theme that you’re using. As I’ve discovered over the last year or
The term webmaster, to me at least, is so very 90s, with connotations of nerdy, beardy types sitting in front of multiple monitors, surrounded by dirty keyboards, cold coffee in Star Trek mugs and half-eaten pizzas in piled-up boxes on a chugging, beige PC. The
A few weeks ago I was playing with a test WordPress website as a sub-domain and for some inexplicable reason one of my main websites, Compufix, went down –i.e. it became unreachable as a result– which initially caused me much head-scratching. The error message was
Bendy Bananas This is your actual default banana with an angle of curvature at no less than 90 degrees, so if the banana is too bendy, it is to be rejected as sub-standard under EU law. with the stalk intact, without bending, fungal damage or
The EU: Spreading Bureaucracy Like A Virus Is it any wonder that UK citizens voted to leave the EU when you discover what EU Articles 11 and 13 wish to impose on member states? In April 2019, EU ministers voted to approve EU Directive 2019/790
FileZilla Is Your Friend In 2018 I wrote about How Not To Restore A Crashed Website, but on that occasion, it was a rescue mission because of a crash beyond my control. Last week I needed to move an existing website from one hosting plan
From Pentium 4 To Ryzen In A Decade With another decade coming to a close, I like to look back at how computer technology has advanced and also to remember which PC specifications we thought were the mutt’s nuts back in 2009. For my part,
The Christmas Dinner Picture the scene if you will. You’re seated in the garden with twenty other people, at a long table, on splendid wooden decking and the temperature is around 29C (85F). The guests either side of you don’t speak a word of English,
Black Mesa Xen – Public Beta As many of you will know, Black Mesa, a complete remake of Half-Life (1998) in the Source engine, was released in 2012 having been through a painful gestation period since around 2005. The game itself eventually went to Steam
Finding The Microphone Noise Recently I started to record voiceovers for my GoPro videos but when I started, the buzzing sounds both in the headset and my voice recordings, were unbearable. This would have made any videos impossible to listen to on YouTube or anywhere
It’s taking a long time for Argentina to accept the notion of virtual or contactless payments, not to mention chip and pin, in part because the banks have been very slow off the mark. But largely this is because cash is still king in a
I Was Scammed! Back in September, I detailed the new PC Cooler RGB fans I’d fitted to my system in How Many Fans Do You Need In Your PC?, but on closer inspection, I discovered that they were used. This was easy to spot
