Recently, I seem to have had this conversation time and time again with businesses, individuals and consultants who are beginning to take Facebook seriously as a place to peddle their wares, so I thought I’d immortalise it here for future reference. Facebook started as a way to network students of a single college together, with [...]
Five tips to maintain your aluminium MacBook Pro
Getting a new Mac is a great experience; Apple have worked for many years to make the unboxing experience memorable and special. People talk about it, document it in photos or in video. But what happens when you’ve had it for a few weeks, months or years? It gets scratched, damaged or dirty. That “yummy new shiny machine” feeling disappears.
These top tips to keep your Mac from showing age are guaranteed to work an awful lot better than anti-ageing creams!
A Handful of Tips for the Self-Employed
Tips for the self-employed have been done to death by every lifehack geek, GTD addict and smart living blogger, but everyone develops their own little system so I thought I’d share mine. Over the years, I’ve tried every GTD app under the sun, only to discover that the tool/software I used to get stuff done [...]
Your call is important to us: Seven tips to use when dealing with customer service
We’ve all had situations where we’ve needed to call the customer service number for a product or service where either something’s gone wrong, or we’re dissatisfied with what’s happening. It’s normal for that to happen considering the amount of goods and services we consume in a year. Some products are bound to be duds sometimes. [...]
Coffee machine cleaning tip from LifeHacker
Following my post about my new Senseo coffee machine, here’s a clever trick from Gina at LifeHacker for owners of similar coffee machines. Cleaning your coffee machine with a round of vinegar helps keep it free from bad stuff, and makes better coffee apparently. Vinegar is natural and free of toxic residues. Vinegar is also [...]
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