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Copy Me That
When I started writing this in February, I thought it was quite niche. But when restaurants and pubs closed because of Covid-19, home cooking became the new eating out and it’s now surprisingly relevant. I’ve always been a keen cook and have a shelf of recipe books, a box full of recipes ripped from magazines…
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Dear Santa
This article was originally published in the Winter 2019 edition of the Badger Farm & Oliver’s Battery Community News. Here I have added much more information than I had space for in the original. When Santa receives letters like this, I do hope he has a techie-elf in his workshops to help him find a good…
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A knowledge of fonts
As well as being Winchester Computer Tutor, since the spring I’ve been the editor of a local newsletter, the Badger Farm and Oliver’s Battery Community News. I’ve enjoyed redesigning the newsletter and when setting up my first edition I took a long time choosing the fonts. Font choice is like housework – no-one notices when you do a…
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Summer snaps
Summer means holidays. Holidays mean photographs. Lots and lots of photographs. If you’re like me, when you get home and go through them, you’ll find a few that you want to do more with. Or one special one that would make a perfect painting, but you just don’t have the artistic skills. And if you’re…
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The Cloud
I’ve rebranded my column from Computer Corner to Tech Talk. Why? To reflect how computers have evolved from “the PC sitting on your desk” to “the tech you carry around all day”. Think back to the days when the family would crowd round (or fight over) the only computer in the house. When you used…
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Getting organised with Trello
As winter approaches, it’s a good time to look back and see how well I’ve stuck to my News Year’s Resolutions. Some haven’t been great. But “Get more organised” – that’s a YES! How? With the help of Trello. In essence a virtual pinboard, in Trello you can organise almost anything. From a simple list…
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Planting the seed of your family tree
Genealogy was transformed by the internet. Information that once took cross-country trips to record offices or churches to find can now be accessed with a few clicks. It’s probably why genealogy is now one of the most popular online activities. If you want to give it a go, where can you start? Many genealogy sites…
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Time to say goodbye: Windows Live Mail
WINDOWS 10 MAIL The easy option is the Windows 10 Mail app. This offers a very modern look and a simple interface, which makes it easy to learn. Being an inherent part of Windows 10, it integrates well with Microsoft’s other apps such as Calendar and People. But its simple interface brings simple functionality: you…
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Your digital legacy
Where to start? The first thing I’ll do is put together a prioritised list of my accounts. I need to give clear instructions on what needs to happen to them, particularly any that have a financial aspect such as Paypal and my online subscriptions. As this is sensitive data, I need to be careful where…
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Spring-cleaning your computer
This is an updated version of an article I wrote a couple of years ago. I wouldn’t advocate, as some suggest, taking the side off your desktop computer to give it a thorough clean unless you’re confident you know what you’re doing. But there’s no harm in running over the outer casing with the soft-brush…
