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TomTom – remembering existing customers
Earlier in the year I purchased a years worth of HD Traffic service from TomTom. More recently they’ve made the decision to half the price of this service. Now, paying up front, most people would accept that this is the cost of buying up-front and wouldn’t expect that existing customers would feel the benefit until…
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Weekend PC Woes
Over the weekend I took the opportunity to upgrade my PC to make it a bit more energy efficient and quieter. The rubbish generic PSU was replaced by a higher spec branded model and the graphics card was removed, so the on-board GPU would take over instead. Now, what then went wrong I don’t know.…
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The Influence Project
What is your influence? If you decided to spread some information on the internet, how well do you think you’d do? Well, the “Influence Project“, set up by Fast Company () is aiming to answer that. We started with a simple question: Who are the most influential people online right now? That’s what The Influence…
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Dreams? More of a nightmare
Let’s set the scene – my mum is in her 60’s, retired and, due to health reasons, often has to use a walking stick or mobility scooter. She orders a bed from Dreams. Not any old bed, but a top of the range, £2000 adjustable bed. Bearing in mind most people probably spend a couple…
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PC security for the new user
I’ve always been a believer that new computer users should get themselves a good manual or enrol on a course – just ask the resident family “computer expert” how many times they’ve had to bail out a family member who’s badly infected their PC through not knowing what they were doing – “But it said…