I’ve changed my internet connection over from Virgin to Vodafone to save money. It was roughly half the price for the same speed. I don’t want to have a Vodafone (or any other ISP) router on my home network. They can remotely access the routers and update them. I can’t see why anyone would take … Read more
My company has been using Vimeo for perhaps a decade. Over that time, our usage has grown sustainably. The cost of the bandwidth for Vimeo is really steep, and we ended up on an enterprise account – which means you then have someone to negotiate the price of your data with. It’s really time-consuming and … Read more
Like most people, I use numerous Google products – Search, Mail, Drive, YouTube, Photos, etc. I use them at work and in my personal life. Recently, I’ve become more concerned about data privacy and the increasingly authoritarian nature of the world. So I decided to move away from Google (as much as possible) in my … Read more
I have just just been setting up a new Macbook. I was expecting the batterylife to be 12 hours. However, Google Filestream was just continously sycning and using battery. Google Filestream shouldn’t sync anything…. however the probelm was that Bitdefender was scanning everyfile in the filestream. Hence the computer was continuously syncing file after file. … Read more
I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator for perhaps 16 years. It’s been a trusty workhorse for me. My old version of Illustrator stopped running well on new versions of MacOS – so I had to upgrade and move to their subscription model. Since then, I’ve been trying to find another program to use. I hated … Read more
I thought it might be worth putting up my notes of a two-day canoe and camping trip that I did with some friends just south of Oxford. Our kids are between 6 and 8. They totally loved it. The overall plan is to go from Clifton Hampden to Shillingford. Day 1 – Clifton Hampden to … Read more
Small little post. I’ve just upgraded to iOS 12. I found that my Google Photos didn’t see any of the new photos that I had taken since the upgrade. Basically, the only solution for me was to uninstall Google Photos and then reinstall it. Then my photos immediately appear in Google Photos and started getting … Read more
I have just installed Snap on Ubuntu 14.04 using “sudo apt-get install snap”. When I tried to install a snap, I got this error message: ZOE ERROR (from /usr/lib/snap/snap): error opening parameter fileZOE library version 2006-07-28 It turns out the you also need to install snapd. sudo apt-get install snapd Now it should just work.
We recently had to extract barcode data from a large directory of .lbx files, which is the file format used by Brother P-Touch Label Printer software. We could have found the software, opened each file in turn and cut and pasted the data into a spreadsheet, but this didn’t seem very efficient. Opening the files … Read more
It is quite hard to find your Amazon prime invoice. You need to login to your Amazon account, click “Manage Prime Membership” and then click “View Printable Invoice” I hope this is helpful to someone.