Are there just some callers that you don’t want to bother with? Unsolicited sales calls, drama queens, ex-significant others? Blocking these calls on your iPhone is very easy. Once blocked, you will not receive phone calls, messages or FaceTime from the blocked number. There are
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As if pirates haven’t received enough bad press recently, a court in Australia has ruled that ISPs iiNet, Internode and Dodo amongst others, must hand over the details of customers who have illegally downloaded Dallas Buyers Club by using Bit Torrent. In what is
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I use Facebook to message my friends and family all the time. Even on my phone I have the Messenger app installed so I can contact my Facebook buddies on the go. Now Facebook has just launched Messenger.com. That’s right, now you can use your
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Give or take a few years and with the benefit of poetic license, it could be said that we are all celebrating, or in some cases commiserating our marriage to Microsoft all those years ago on the 5th of April 1975 and like all long
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Ever had a need to rotate the text in your Word document so it is at a 90 degree angle to your headers and footers? I will admit that this is not necessary very often, but if you ever need this trick keep this tip
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Telemarketers, Don’t Call Me… PLEASE! There is nothing that riles me up more than robocalls and telemarketers. They truly are the scum of the earth. I have no patience with them and their games. I detest them. I generally just hang up on them, but sometimes
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It’s a sad fact that women still only account for around 30% of the total technology workforce and, in many quarters, the role of women in tech industry trade shows and the like is still viewed more as an eye-candy factor rather than anything to
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Since I was a kid I have always dreamed of replicators, teleporters and self-driving cars – blame Star Trek. I would never have thought that one of these would be invented during my lifetime. I guess I was wrong because for many years some big-name
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As some of you who may have read my previous articles will know, I have a tendency to come over all nostalgic, almost tearful in fact, particularly on the subject of retro machines. But it is pretty specific for me and the above IBM
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Digiarty is running an Easter promotion which includes a giveaway of its MacX DVD Ripper Pro software (Mac only). The offer is valid until 10th April or up to 5000 copies, whichever comes first. Ultimate DVD ripper for Mac brings you the best solution to
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WonderFox is currently running an Easter promotion which includes a giveaway of its very good video conversion software, WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro… offer expires 1st May. Convert HD video to 200+ video formats and mobile devices – 50X Faster conversion speed with 0-Quality-Loss
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I think it’s fair to say that the PC above has reached the end of its useful lifespan and should perhaps be put out to grass or maybe just terminated. Believe me, I’ve had PC’s come into the shop, not quite but very near this
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Thursday Just as I was still settling into my relatively new abode of two years, eleven months and twenty six days, it dawned on me over my second coffee of the morning that the landlord of my computer shop still hadn’t replied to my counter-offer
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