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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.

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Brother hl-l3210cw stuck on connecting to wlan

March 2, 2023

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

March 5, 2022

 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…

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Google Meet can’t find camera but I can see it

February 4, 2021

 Here’s a fun thing. I can see myself when using Google Meet but nobody else can see me. I can see myself in the top right hand corner during Google Meet sessions. But a Google meet error is telling me that I have no camera connected. I can test my camera settings in Google Meet, but…

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How to FIX Action required: There’s an issue with your Trello account

January 23, 2021

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

October 19, 2020

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

October 17, 2020

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

June 20, 2016

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

August 14, 2014

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

May 9, 2014

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.

April 16, 2014

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

March 7, 2014

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

January 20, 2014

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

September 4, 2013

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.

August 24, 2013

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…

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Microsoft Natural keyboard FOR SALE

July 15, 2013

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…

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Merging cells in Excel or Google Drive / Docs without losing data!

April 4, 2013

I’m currently compiling information gathered from business cards collected at a trade fair into 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 Google…

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Sync your saved passwords, bookmarks / favourites and history across all your computers and devices

February 26, 2013

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;…

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How to copy from a PDF to Word without losing your mind.

February 19, 2013

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!

February 18, 2013

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…

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How to get email reminders if someone doesn’t reply to your email.

February 11, 2013

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

February 11, 2013

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…

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Managing multiple WordPress sites – the easy way to update plugins!

January 25, 2013

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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Why you need to create Twitter lists.

December 17, 2012

Twitter isn’t like most other social media in that it just sort of ‘happens’ whether you’re looking at it or not. The stream of posts is constant, and the more people you follow the more posts there will be in your stream. When you’re new to Twitter the temptation is to follow everyone who looks…

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Easiest way to backup your documents

November 6, 2012

Picture is unrelated If I wrote the word backup in mirror-image all over your face so that you saw the word ‘backup’ every time you passed a reflective surface I still wouldn’t consider that a strong enough way of making you appreciate the importance of backing up your documents. The importance of backups was first…

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This list will make you a better photographer

October 23, 2012

A friend recently got in touch to ask for advice on how to crack into the world of being a professional photographer, which is a world I left about a year ago.  I told my wife and her first reaction was ‘tell him not to bother’ but I decided that maybe there are a few…

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