Tech & Gadgets

I’m on the verge of becoming obsessive about saving energy and going green, not just because of the cost savings it often brings. I also want to do my bit to protect environments and the amazing creatures who live in them, all of whom are our distant relatives and deserve a fighting chance of survival…read more

How many channels does your cable or satellite package give you? I haven’t counted ours but it must be more than a hundred and to be frank, they’re mostly a load of old crap. Repeats, repeats and more repeats plus a constant stream of ancient stuff. What’s the point of repeating old news quizzes? It seems…read more

Fancy a spring clean? If you enjoy drilling down into the deepest, darkest nether regions of the money saver’s craft, why not get down and dirty with your appliances and gadgets? The idea is this: clean appliances run better, cost less to run and last longer. I pulled my my desktop computer tower away from…read more

Computer nasties can kill your PC. It’s happened to me twice over the past six years. The ‘blue screen of death’ bit me hard on the bum and my PC expired. Had I not had a a husband who knows his computer ass from his elbow, it would have cost me a fortune to get it…read more

Plenty of middle aged people are computer experts. My husband is in his mid fifties but he’s an SEO consultant with one of the best respected Search Engine Optimisation agencies in the country. And I’m no slouch either. But there’s no getting away from it – if you’re over forty you have a decent chance…read more

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‘Stand-by’ has been in the news again this week, with reports about the astounding amounts of energy we waste leaving household goods half on, half off in a weird quantum-like state that it’s surprisingly hard to avoid. So what’s the problem? Far too many gadgets and appliances are made with stand-by the norm. Which means…read more

There’s probably an Open Source (OS) alternative for almost every kind of commercial software. OS is a great way to save money on tools for business and leisure. It’s free. Created by communities rather than individuals, it’s the product of mass collaboration. Because the code is freely available for people to improve and add to,…read more