I had a call out to a customer who had accidentally turned on Airplane Mode on his laptop, which stopped his laptop from connecting to

If you are finding that your phone is having difficulty performing updates, or your apps have been offloaded, then you are running out of storage

If you use Windows Security (often called Windows Defender) you may notice non-Microsoft programs take a lot longer to load. This is down to your

Starting 13th July 2026, Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 will enter a “reduced functionality mode” where documents can only be opened and printed but cannot

I needed to extract text from a YouTube video to take notes for a project. After discovering that Microsoft Word can do dictation and transcription,

Microsoft Edge comes with a variety of AI features enabled. The latest feature is the On Device AI system known as Phi Mini. AI is

Google has introduced something they call “On Device AI” or Gemini Nano AI which makes use of the hardware of your computer ready for you

I use Google Workspace for Business, and the email is handled exactly the same as a gmail account. Microsoft Outlook Classic threw a serious error

If you have an iPhone or Android phone that supports Apple or Google Pay, you will have a wallet. If your loyalty card provider supports

Most people on Fibre Broadband have fibre delivered to a box in the road and then copper to their home which is known as FTTC

This post is inspired by a project called Just The Browser. By adding some additional entries to the files, you can also prevent the refund

Would you like to use your smartphone as a webcam instead of the crappy one built into your computer? Or your computer doesn’t have a

Microsoft has 2 main update pathways. You use Windows Update for the main parts of Windows; Microsoft Store to update apps. If you install a

Sandboxie is a piece of software that makes sure everything you download from your computer is stored in a sandbox folder and this keeps these

Timebombs are a piece of code that that triggers after a certain amount of time and causes disruption. Microsoft has a timebomb in Windows 10

As of 25th October, Google (which owns Nest) has shut down the Nest platform. This means that you can no longer use your mobile phone

Modern computers do not have DVD drives built into them and I have found a lot of new DVD drives do not seem to work

Microsoft has officially ended basic support for Windows 10 as of 14th October, however you can use something called ESU or Extended Support Updates. Depending

Microsoft has a timetable for the expiry of support for different versions of Windows, with Windows 10 coming to an end on 14th October 2025

If you are an Apple iPhone user, you may be at risk of losing your Apple account and all your data, and potentially be locked