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)
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)
During the installation of Windows 10, I was presented with the "Customise settings" screen that explains what sort of data it wants to upload to Microsoft - for our benefit, of course! To quote, this is what Microsoft wants to know about ... (more)
The absolute priority with any quality ride is knowing where the tea-rooms are. So, we've compiled a map of the best-uns! Specialised Cycles 80 Connaught Road, NORWICH; Tel: 01603 665668 This is a small but well-established and well ... (more)
You may be aware of the iPhone backup feature within iTunes (on your personal computer), and you may have seen the checkbox to encrypt the backup. What you may not know is that the backup will only contain passwords you've stored on your iPhone ... (more)
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)
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)
Have you heard of in-app purchases? If you haven't now, you might have by the time your credit card bill or bank statement comes in. It's extremely easy to spend money inside iPhone and iPad apps, and you may not realise that the high-tech ... (more)
The UK's communications regulator Ofcom has released a free app to test the quality of your wireless network. It is possible for you to have a poor signal from your phone, tablet or laptop computer just because the wireless router is positioned ... (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)
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)