How about a list of website that offer free icons, images and vectors for personal or commercial use? Oh, you like? Then here you go: Continue Reading »

Standard Gmail POP3 & SMTP instructions:

1. Enable POP in Gmail. Don’t forget to click Save Changes when you’re done.
2. Configure your client to match the settings below: Continue Reading »

A whole host of windows out-of the box, stand-alone applications can be found here.

These include useful apps such as as Desktops which allows you to use multiple desktops at the press of a key. Most of the applications work on all versions of windows from 2000 to Vista.

Aaaaw, the old mobo <3

I upgraded recently to the M2N-SLI-Deluxe ;)

Fam Fam Fam (www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/)
Brand Spanking New (www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2006/12/hohoho.htm)
Pinvoke (www.pinvoke.com/)
Sweetie (www.sweetie.sublink.ca/)
Random Jabber (www.randomjabber.com)
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Username and Email Address

Your broadband username, which you should use when connecting to the Internet is in one of the following formats: Continue Reading »

Whilst investigating an e-mail I received from a certain mymain@mail.com I came across this list of other spammers that you can check against your own ‘dodgy’ mail. Continue Reading »

The more money you have, the easier it becomes to steal; though I use the term steal loosely. Yes, this is going to be a rant on how screwed up one of BT’s company policies is.
I work from home and don’t exactly receive a daily plethora of phone calls. Most of the time the calls that I receive are in fact cold calls. A couple of weeks ago it occurred to me that all of a sudden that I had not been receiving these pesky calls for some time and whilst I was not over the moon about it, it was non-the-less a pleasant thought. A couple of days ago I realised that it was not a stroke of luck, neither was it some ingenious BT update that was actually doing what it was supposed to be doing all along, to have me off their lists to prevent cold-callers, but in fact my BT line was all but dead. That’s right; I was off the grid so to speak because of a fault on BT’s line. Continue Reading »

At the Wikipedia Commons you can download a fantastic set of icons for free.
The set is called Crystal Clear. Enjoy ;)

For a full listing of the Icon sets available at the Wikipedia Commons website click here.

Also, check out IconFinder, an icon search engine.

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An untold number of people Use Adobe’s Photoshop for all their image manipulation and editing needs, but most users barely touch on the application’s plethora of productivity tools. In this post I will be taking you through how to create Actions in Photoshop; something which can save a huge amount of time and increase it’s value to you. Time to increase Photoshop’s value from £20 to £100 ;) Continue Reading »