Defy the Credit Crunch Tip #2 – And you won’t believe watt!
Posted by Mike Halsey in eco, saving money on 29. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
Like many people I’m concerned about my electricity bill these days. I have a reasonably powerful PC with a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Gb of RAM and a Windows Experience Index of 5.4, finally I’m running Windows Vista Ultimate. I was wondering how I could save electricity when it’s switched on so I thought [...]
The Cheese Grater and the Chocolate Fudge Brownie
Posted by Mike Halsey in architecture on 24. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
No, I’m not writing a children’s story, this is a tale about Sheffield’s two new car parks. I call them the Cheese Grater and the Chocolate Fudge Brownie. won’t go on about them but I thought I’d post some photos (they’re not mine, I’ve not done any yet, so I’ve linked them through to the photographers)
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Problems opening Office 2007 documents?
Posted by Mike Halsey in office, pc support on 23. Oct, 2008 | 1 Comment
When Microsoft launched Office 2007 it came with a new set of default file types that couldn’t be opened by previous versions of Office or by other office suites. If you are affected by this then there’s a simple fix for it, depending what software you use and what type of computer you have…
You use [...]
Web content ‘disturbing children’
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet, security on 22. Oct, 2008 | 4 Comments
On Monday, the BBC reported on a poll by the NSPCC that said “Three out of four children have seen images on the internet that disturbed them” and that the NSPCC were calling for internet filtering software to come pre-installed on PCs.
The thing is that this software is and has been available for years and sometimes for [...]
Paying by direct debit to access your files and photos? You must have your head in the clouds!
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing on 21. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
Your PC has cost you pots of money, you pay extra for your broadband and then there’s the software you’ve had to fork out for. Why oh why would you want to subscribe to your software and the very services that allow you access to your files and photographs by direct debit? Would you have [...]
