If you want to find out your credit score, you generally have to pay for it. Information about you, held by companies such as Experian, is used to determine whether you are a risky person to lend money to. It's clearly in your interests to ... (more)
If you are having trouble getting approved for a credit card, or had your application for a current account turned down, then you are probably in need of a financial health check. In the UK the best place to turn to for a credit report ... (more)
When you order your next batch of heating oil, you may be told that you can send a cheque within a few days of the delivery. This means that you don't have to be in at the time of delivery, and you won't get charged a credit card surcharge ... (more)
Personal Finance We've never been in financial trouble or hardship, but have picked up some useful pointers in a few specialised areas. Money Transfers One of these is How to Wire Money Across the Atlantic. It certainly isn't straightforward ... (more)
Time Trialling Cycling Time Trials (CTT) is the authoritative body for time trialling in the UK. It has a highly active and forward-looking membership, and this is reflected in its informative and up-to-date website. A handful of events ... (more)
I bought a second-hand Garmin Edge 1000 recently, as a Christmas present, and it's a nice device with a handy big screen. It quickly transpired though that the map screen was missing all the minor roads (UK's B roads and smaller), which made ... (more)
Technology The modern world is supported and influenced by technology in a wide variety of ways. Almost nobody in the developed nations can claim to be free of technology, and in fact most homes are stuffed with highly advanced gadgets and ... (more)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7133979.stm Store card shoppers pay an average of 62% more interest than those using credit cards, a study suggests. People are frequently encouraged to apply for a store card in-store, in exchange ... (more)
DataDoctor.org offers a file recovery program to recover lost files from a memory card. It offers a free trial download of its Memory card data recovery Software, but doesn't state what doesn't work compared to the paid version. On running ... (more)
The news is that Carphone Warehouse is set to announce a free broadband service for its Talk Talk (landline) subscribers. This announcement is due on Tuesday, but the company is only saying that the announcement is about its broadband package ... (more)
He crusades against the clutches of vendor-led computing and is know as the "father oof free computing". He founded the Free Software Foundation which was used to turn the open-source Linux operating system (pioneered by Linus Torvalds) into ... (more)