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Share Your Seeds!

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)

How To Select Your Oil Supplier

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)

How to Publish Your Facebook Stream

If you'd like to publish your Facebook status updates on your own website, it takes a bit of figuring out. Fortunately, the instructions at techlifeweb.com explain how to do it. Here is my status feed: (more)

How to Know if a Website is Safe to Buy From?

We found companies: There is one company match: Sorry! There are no results for . Believe it or not, all these years after the explosive growth of WWW commerce, there's still no definitive way to tell if a website is legit ... (more)

Geo-targetting your website

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)

Getting your Windsave Site Survey

Have things gone a bit quiet with your Windsave Wind Turbine order? They had for us. We had been told that we would know of our site survey date by the beginning of October, and by the middle of October we'd heard nothing. A call to Windsave ... (more)

Do It Yourself!

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)

How Windows Determines Your Internet Access

If you've ever wondered how Microsoft Windows knows whether you have a solid Internet connection or not, it isn't magic: Windows networking is programmed to attempt connection to a TCP service. It uses the success or failure of this to report ... (more)

Know How Much Electricity Your Appliances Use

The Kill-a-Watt is available from the REUK.co.uk shop, for £19.99 plus £1.95 UK mainland postage. You plug it into a mains socket, then plug an appliance into it, turn it on and it tells you the voltage, current and power consumption ... (more)

Switching a website to SSL

It was once accepted that only websites handling financial data (such as customer credit card details) would need to implement security and get the padlock in the visitor's address bar - but not any longer. The padlock indicates that the ... (more)

Calculate your New-distance Eddington Number!

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)

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