If it’s related to technology, you’ll find it in this section. There are a lot of posts here that I was using as a record of how I overcame technical obstacles.
What I’m learning rebuilding WebCaretakers as a calculator project
Reviving a Digital Relic I registered the domain name WebCaretakers.com over 25 years ago. It was the name of my first company, but I haven’t used it for a long time – until now. I have finally decided to do something productive with it. I often find myself using the same calculator functions on various…
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Jack’s Window Cleaning in Ipswich
I’ve just built a one-page website for my friend Jack Fawthropp. He’s been my next-door neighbour for years, and he’s a top chap. Jack recently started a window cleaning business in Ipswich, Suffolk and asked me for some digital marketing advice. Jack’s new window cleaning business is called Gem Shine Windows. The strategy is really…
The ebay stories experiment.
Back in 2009, some very clever people ran an interesting experiment. Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn bought 100 items from places like junk shops and listed them on Ebay. Big deal, right? The clever part of this experiment is that they hired 100 writers to write stories about the objects. The stories were not true,…
Brother hl-l3210cw stuck on connecting to wlan
Brother laser printer has stopped printing Before reading this post, you should probably understand that I dislike printers. Be they Brother printers, HP, Epson or from the factories of any other manufacturer, I’m not a fan of any of them. I’d rather not have one in the house at all. So why do I dislike…
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Andrew Laws Associates Ltd is now Yeseo
I have been working in SEO for many years. I would say too many years to count, but that’s not true. I started in 1998. Over the years I have used several brand names but if I’m honest none of them have ever felt quite right. Until now.From 2013 until 2022 I used the name…
Google Meet “no camera found” on Mac: how to fix it
I hit this in 2021. Google Meet kept telling me it couldn’t find my camera, even though I could see my own preview in the corner of the screen. I tried the obvious stuff, nothing worked, and eventually the problem went away on its own. Unsatisfying. Plenty of people are still searching for an answer,…
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How to FIX Action required: There’s an issue with your Trello account
The Trello / Atlassian one email, two accounts problemI received a notification alerting me that my email address was being used for two different Trello accounts, warning me that I will lose data if I don’t take action, but taking action appeared to be challenging.Like a lot of people I have been using Trello for…
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Epomaker Skyloong SK64S Mechanical Keyboard manual in English
Following on from my previous post about the Epomaker Skyloong SK64S Mechanical Keyboard I decided it might be useful to post the English version of the manual. It’s pretty slim; just a small single sheet of paper, but it does contain some key combinations that are essential to getting started. Click the images of of the…
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Epomaker Skyloong SK64S Mechanical Keyboard on a Mac OS
Why have I bought a mechanical keyboard for my Mac? If you don’t care about why I bought the Epomaker Skyloong SK64S Mechanical Keyboard scroll down to get to the setup and Mac OS troubleshooting information. I learned to type on a huge old Microsoft Natural keyboard many moons ago. Since making the switch to Mac…
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How I added 2tb of storage to my Macbook Pro
So I bought a Macbook Pro without looking at storage… I love my Macbook pro. That probably doesn’t need to be said, but I do. Well, actually I mostly love it. External storage is a problem. I professionally supported Microsoft products for well over a decade but after making the decision to drop the IT…
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The Tile (GPS tracking device) – review 2015
Just over a year ago I stumbled upon a kickstarter campaign for a small device that appeared to be a modern version of one of those keyfobs you can whistle at when you lose your keys. The price was surprisingly low so I took a chance and invested in three Tiles (and got one free!).…
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Virgin Media V+ dead (bricked) – how to fix
Virgin Media (nee NTL) have been providing what I consider to be unbeatable cable broadband for about fifteen years now, and in that time the set top box provided for the television part of the Internet / Television / Phone package has changed several times. The first box was a tiny little effort with a…
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Pebble watch (UK buyer) – first impressions.
Pebble Watch box The Pebble watch caught my attention way the hell back when it was just a twinkle in a Kickstarter user’s eye. The concept of a simple watch that connects with my smartphone is incredibly appealing, but the other options on the market were laughably large and woefully under-supported in terms of applications.…
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How to send emails from other email addresses in Hotmail
Yeah okay so it’s not called Hotmail anymore, but it’ll take us all years to start calling it Outlook. I’m not too bothered really as I use Gmail (which I consider to be far superior) but I acknowledge that Hotmail does have a lot of users, which is why I’m writing this little tutorial. NOTE…
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Apple airplay device currently in use – how to fix
I was recently seduced into buying an Apple Airport Express, partly because I’ve been listening to the radio through my fairly poor sounding Macbook Pro speakers for a few months and it kinda bugged me that I have a nice sounding stereo just a few feet from my computer. I could run a cable to…
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WP-Property sidebar below content – how to fix
I’ve been working with the excellent WP-Property plugin for a client and have been really impressed with the free features that come with the plugin and consider the few premium addons that we needed to purchase really good value for the price that was paid. BUT there was a problem – no matter what theme…
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My WordPress skills.
Hullo! I have been working with agencies and businesses for about fifteen years and have been working to SEO principles since the last century (wow it was easy back then!). As a long-term freelancer I appreciate that I make my clients’ lives easier by working fast and with the minimum of fuss. I also provide…
Microsoft Natural keyboard FOR SALE
Since ‘going Mac’ I have no use for this MS Natural keyboard. If you’ve used one of these keyboards before you’ll know that they really are the Rolls Royce of human interfaces. A few of the letters are missing, which sadly is common with all natural keyboards, but if you’ve used a natural keyboard you’ll…
Merging cells in Excel or Google Drive / Docs without losing data!
I’m currently compiling information gathered from business cards collected at a trade fair into a spreadsheet so that I can import them into Google Contacts (because I use Gmail and Google Drive for CRM) and hit a snag. My colleague kindly typed all the contact information from the many business cards I collected into a…
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Sync your saved passwords, bookmarks / favourites and history across all your computers and devices
The scenario I have a computer that I use at work, an Android phone that I use all the time, an iPad that I use at home and I also occasionally use other computers when visiting family or have to ‘lend’ my computer to someone else at work. The problem I’m crap at remembering passwords;…
How to copy from a PDF to Word without losing your mind.
Your mind, after trying to untangle text copied from a PDF For one reason or another, we occasionally need to copy text from a PDF document so that we can use it in a Word document. I won’t go into why you might need to copy text from a PDF and paste it into Microsoft…
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Google Drive – Images in tables moving / breaking format when printing to PDF – HELP!
I’ve been using the same natively created Google Docs documents for well over a year, but in the last few weeks the formatting has smashed. The document was created from scratch in Google Drive and is standard text with a few tables that have images inserted into them. When I create a new document I…
How to get email reminders if someone doesn’t reply to your email.
I have mentioned how marvellous I think Boomerang for Gmail is in previous posts, but I hadn’t (until now) mentioned my favourite feature… Get a reminder if your email doesn’t get a response. Boomerang has the very delicious ability to bring emails back to the top of your inbox if you don’t hear back from the respondent…
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How to schedule emails in Gmail
Gmail is fast becoming de rigueur for business emails, and as I’m sure the vast majority of Gmail users would agree this is a good thing for the whole of humanity. Features like conversation strings, message labels and many of the wonderful Gmail Labs tools make using Gmail a lot more time efficient and logical than…
Managing multiple WordPress sites – the easy way to update plugins!
WordPress is arguably the one CMS that continues to lead the way for flexible website building and development. The basic install of WordPress is pretty special on its own, but the real power and flexibility comes from the many thousands of plugins that can add marvellous functionality to your websites. But with that flexibility comes a great…
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