Telecom T-Stick
Received an e-mail last night from Telecom NZ offering me a free T-Stick modem, so long as I bought 500 MB prepaid data for $29.95. The offer is only available to Xtra broadband customers. I already have a VODEM which …
Category: Computer Stuff
Backing up windows partitions
It looks like a big part of my business is going to be virus and spy-ware removal. Although this is mainly a time consuming, tedious job, there is a certain element of risk of corrupting the data on the affected …
More browser features
Continuing the development of my home pages, this time to make the main page into a family ‘message board’ I came across yet another Microsoft IE feature. I think it is safe to call this one a bug! The main …
Browser features
I have just finished a new feature for my family homepages (www.glover.gen.nz) to allow members of the family to maintain their own set of links in a side bar off the main screen This involves them logging in, and seeing …
Cyber Security
Had an interesting job this week, a customer got in touch with a story about her ‘Cyber Security’ system not letting her browse to any web pages. Nothing she did would get rid of the messages it kept throwing up. …
Another web site
Signs of Success signed up for a free community website at ourporirua.com recently. Today I got a version of my printed flyer up as a simple place holder (at host.ourporirua.com/soscomputerrescue). I struggled with this site for a few days. The …
New blog theme
I just down loaded a new theme for my WordPress blog. Normally, if I was using the WordPress site to host my blog, I could choose any of thousands of different themes with no real difficulty. However, when you install …
Orange phone
Also while travelling in the UK, I bought a mobile phone from Orange for 15gbp (GB pounds), which included 10gbp airtime, so I got the phone for 5gbp. I brought it back to NZ hoping that it would just ‘work’. …
Vodafone UK vodem in NZ
While in the UK (May-June 2009) I bought a Vodafone wireless modem (a Vodem!) which cost 40 pounds including 15 pounds worth of access (1 gigabyte) so the vodem only cost me 25 pounds. As it happens I only used …