Share Your Seeds The BBC's Gardeners Question Time raised a dual issue common to virtually all small-scale gardeners: how to economise on seed-buying, and what to do with your leftover seeds. Some gardening websites feature 'seed swap ... (more)
Do It Yourself! Doing it yourself is a great way to save money, re-use things and have fun at the same time! There is a huge array of skills that you can acquire as a DIYer, but your learning curve can be as steep or shallow as you like ... (more)
Ah, well, it's easy to answer, right? Boilerjuice, Butler, Bayford, Watson, or Scottish Fuels. Simple, eh? Or is it? Thanks to John Kelleher[1] who alerted us to the fact that many of the oil companies (that includes both domestic heating ... (more)
Your iPhone (and iPad, for that matter) is vulnerable to a six-minute attack in the event that someone gets hold of your phone. The phone has built-in encryption, but the 'key chain' that Apple employs to keep passwords and data safe is breakable ... (more)
Does your wireless router have PIN technology? This is where you can connect your computer to the router by pressing a button on the router, then entering the 8-digit PIN code that is (usually) printed on the router itself. It allows people ... (more)
If your motherboard supports, it, add an SSD card to act as a fast caching layer in front of your much larger (and slower) legacy hard disk drive. (more)
Ask Yourself, "How do I choose a supplier of domestic heating oil?" We've been asking visitors to our website for years for their suggestions, and here is a summary. Price Not surprisingly, most people choose on the basis of cheapest price ... (more)
Does your company have a local presence in many different countries, or do you run a site where it makes sense to keep visitors from different countries away from each other? There are a number of follow-on questions here. Does it matter ... (more)
If you are asked for your SIM number by your carrier or mobile phone operator, you will find this on your iPhone within Settings: General: About and scroll down to the bottom. The IMEI is the unique number for your phone (International Mobile ... (more)
Going abroad with your smart-phone? Understand roaming! Nowadays there's no excuse to be 'ignorant' of the colossal charges you could incur if you access the internet from your phone whilst in another country; there are countless reports ... (more)
When you've connected your Strava account to swinny.net, we analyse each activity to figure out how many "new miles" or "new kilometres" you've gone. This new distance is then plugged into the Eddington Number calculator to contribute to ... (more)